Keeping Priorities First-in-Command Duties o Think of new ideas. o Pass off the new ideas to the second-in-command. o Allow the process of categorization to work. o Remember that not all ideas are good ideas. Second-in-Command Duties o Categorize new ideas in Now, No, Later files o Spend the time to make sure the Now items fit the strategic plan and are developed and implemented. o Build a file for the Later items to give confidence to the first-in-command that the items will be brought up at the right time. o Kill the No ideas but be sensitive to the first-in-command’s
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