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Your Team Is Busy. Your Priorities Are Dying. Here Is Why | Ep. 339
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Side quests or seemingly harmless distractions like unplanned favors, pet projects, or quick fixes can derail execution as a company grows. The tasks don’t appear on the roadmap, they lack ownership, and often waste valuable resources. In this episode, Leila Hormozi explains how, despite coming from well-intentioned, high-performing team members, side quests pull attention away from what truly matters and end up slowing progress or stalling key priorities. Leila shares the hard lessons learned from experience, lessons about managing priorities and focus in a growing company. The best companies do not win by doing more things–they win by doing a few things exceptionally well, in the right order.
In this episode
00:00 How firing revealed side quests in Leila’s company
03:32 What are side quests in business?
04:26 Why high performers often create the biggest distractions
08:48 How founders create side quests
11:23 The priority principle for minimizing side quests
13:58 Winning in business by doing fewer things well
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