{"podcast":{"title":"PRODUCTIVITY","slug":"productivity-6443634","podcast_index_feed_id":6443634,"rss_url":"https://rss.buzzsprout.com/2154246.rss","website_url":"https://theproductivitypodcast.com","image_url":"https://storage.buzzsprout.com/55b8se0egh97kbdj76nsga5ig0c8?.jpg","author":"Brandon White","episode_count":310,"summary":"The PRODUCTIVITY Podcast brings you science backed productivity tactics, techniques, and procedures that work so you can get the most out of your time, talent and ideas. You get one productivity episode a day in a short, productive, episode that gives you actionable playbooks to put the ideas to work for yourself. Your Host Brandon White has been an entrepreneur in the trenches for over two decades. He has his Masters in Psychology, MBA, and is a certified Expert Tiny Habits Coach studying with BJ Fogg from Standford's Behavioral Design Lab. With real life experience , Brandon knows he'll never get everything done in a day, but he's figured out the best productivity strategies and products that are force multipliers to get the most out of a day in your personal and professional life. Listen in for your daily productivity tips.","last_synced_at":"2026-06-07T06:21:44.379476+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/productivity-6443634"},"episode":{"title":"Not All Fires Need to Be Put Out: Protocols to Use Strategic Prioritization to Make Your Day More Productive","slug":"not-all-fires-need-to-be-put-out-protocols-to-use-strategic-prioritization-to-make-your-day-more-productive","published_at":"2026-05-20T07:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/productivity-6443634/not-all-fires-need-to-be-put-out-protocols-to-use-strategic-prioritization-to-make-your-day-more-productive","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/productivity-6443634","url":"https://www.buzzsprout.com/2154246/episodes/19207176-not-all-fires-need-to-be-put-out-protocols-to-use-strategic-prioritization-to-make-your-day-more-productive.mp3","audio_url":"https://www.buzzsprout.com/2154246/episodes/19207176-not-all-fires-need-to-be-put-out-protocols-to-use-strategic-prioritization-to-make-your-day-more-productive.mp3","summary":"Strategic prioritization, what strategic prioritization is, why fighting every fire tanks your productivity, what the research says about the firefighting trap, and 3 protocols to help you decide which fires to fight and which ones to let burn. STUDY CITATIONS Repenning, N.P. & Sterman, J.D. (2001). Nobody ever gets credit for fixing problems that never happened: Creating and sustaining process improvement. California Management Review, 43 (4), 64–88. Make sure you hit \"FOLLOW\" in y...","meta_description":"Strategic prioritization, what strategic prioritization is, why fighting every fire tanks your productivity, what the research says about the firefighting…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":289,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/productivity-6443634/episodes/not-all-fires-need-to-be-put-out-protocols-to-use-strategic-prioritization-to-make-your-day-more-productive/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/productivity-6443634/not-all-fires-need-to-be-put-out-protocols-to-use-strategic-prioritization-to-make-your-day-more-productive.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}