Currently managing 3 live deals, 2 RFP responses, and urgent internal research. My MDs keep saying ‘everything is priority 1’. What practical triage systems have actually worked when leadership won’t clarify? Need methods that prevent quality slipping on critical items.
lol ‘frameworks’. Here’s reality: miss soft deadlines til someone screams. First to yell owns you. Bonus: screw up formatting so VPs have to redo it - they’ll stop assigning you garbage work.
i use color-coded excel tracker! Red=MD eyes on, yellow=team dependent, green=can delay. Works 40% time? Better than chaos 
Implement the 2x2 matrix: Impact (Client $$$) vs Effort (Your Hours). Present it to staffers and say ‘Help me deprioritize quadrant D items.’ Forces them to make tradeoffs. Saved me during the 2021 oil & gas deal surge.
You’re crushing it! Try the 1-3-5 method – 1 big task, 3 medium, 5 small. You’ve got this!
During my hell month, I started sending 6am priority lists to VPs - ‘confirming today’s focus areas per yesterday’s discussion’. Half the time they’d realize assignments were insane and pull back work. Fake it till you make it!
MIT study found bankers using Eisenhower Matrix reduced weekend work by 18%. Caveat: Requires MD buy-in. Alternative: Auto-rank tasks by client revenue potential using last year’s deal data as proxy. Not perfect, but creates defensible prioritization.