Sometimes prioritizing is not the key to being efficient.

Recently, I've mapped out my own time allocated each week to various important priorities. These might be marketing, operations, product development, and strategy. Or Project A, Project B, Project C. Or whatever occupies your world.

What I discovered when I really mapped it all out is that my pie chart looks a lot more like the one on the right than the one on the left:

The Grey Ring of Death is all inevitable "overhead" of working in a large team, especially in a large company.

I think this is true for most people:

There's a lot more to be efficiency to be gained from increasing the size of the pie (by cutting the crap) than there is from fine-tuning the correct allocation of time, resources, and energy within the pie you have.

This is important for your teams too. Could you get more out of them by micromanaging their priorities or by reducing overhead wastage through removing the bullshit from their day to day work?