Does Priorities Now open up debate and discussion?
When decision makers are aware that reliable team priorities are immediately available with Priorities Now at any point of discussion, this stimulates more wide ranging and improved discussion of issues and options and objectives. There are four reasons for this. First, decision makers know that closure is quickly achievable in a way that takes account of their own individual priorities. This reduces their disinclinations to debate options that often rise when there is no foreseeable boundary or termination point to the discussion. Second, each decision maker knows that his/her own individual priorities will form part of the equation from which the team priorities scale is calculated. This reduces the disinclination to debate options that often arises when there is no evident way in which individual views can be seen to form part of the team decision short of total victory. Third, a team view is initially specified in the form of a team priority scale. Each individual decision-maker ma
