Not everything is urgent

Have your corporate employers pounded a sense of urgency into you?  Do you have direct reports or peers that don't seem to get it?  These are the typical questions that in-house counsel confront in a corporate environment.  The flip side is a recognition that urgency may be overdone, and that it's important for in-house counsel and their clients to sort the truly urgent from the merely important.  This is the theme in a recent post by consultant Ron Ashkenas, in The Right Response Is Not Always Instant.