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You're embedded with five executives, each certain their request is the top priority. Set the sequence.

The trap is that it looks like a prioritization problem you can solve with a scoring rubric. You do not have the authority to rank these people's work, and the moment you try, you have made yourself the obstacle.

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Weak answers reach for a framework and score the requests. That fails for a reason worth understanding: an engineer ranking five executives' priorities has taken on a decision they cannot enforce and will be relitigated on within a week. The strong move is to make the trade-off visible and hand the decision to whoever owns it, with structure that makes deciding easy. The other thing scored is whether you notice that the disagreement is usually downstream of a missing objective. Five people fight about ordering when nobody has said what the deployment is for.

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