Rosenfeld Media

Harry Max is an executive coach, consultant, and hands-on product design and development leader. He’s also the author of the forthcoming Managing Priorities: How to Create Better Plans and Make Smarter Decisions. For individuals, teams, and organizations, from managing things, people, places, rules, activities, and projects, Harry’s new book Managing Priorities gets to the heart of how we prioritize and make and implement decisions, whether one-off or events that happen on a regular basis. Harry uses DEGAP, a design-thinking framework that he says he didn’t invent but discovered, to explain how successful organizations and leaders set, implement, and execute priorities. DEGAP closes the gap between a current state and a desired state: D - decide E - Engage (commit to the process) G - gather (collect information and items to prioritize) A - arrange (sort and create frameworks) P - prioritize Harry and Lou also discuss the importance of flexible thinking (a superpower of designers) when it comes to priorit