When we share information with each other, and particularly if a request for action is being made it is helpful to make clear what the Priority is. In much of what you receive from me you see "P=92" or some other number. Here is a guide to what those ratings mean.
Note that when the Sender assigns a priority, it should reflect both what the Sender has as a priority and what the Sender thinks the priority might be for the Recipient.
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Absolute crisis. Immediate action required. |
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Incredibly urgent and important. Drop what you are doing. |
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Put this above whatever else you are doing but there is a tiny amount of room here. |
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Definitely important enough to bump most everything aside. |
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Very likely to be important enough to set other issues aside and to start on this in the next few hours or sooner. Make sure you recruit anyone needed to help. Promptly ask the Sender for clarification. Follow up again and again until it is done. |
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Likely important and urgent enough to read immediately because of priority of Sender. |
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Important, likely somewhat urgent. Here & above, please get back to Sender. |
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Valuable, fairly significant. Hope you can get to it eventually. |
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Very likely to be of value, but maybe not high value. Can be left not done |
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Maybe this is of interest. You certainly can ignore it. |
Priority or Urgency? They are separate issues. It may be very Urgent to close the door when there is a lot of noise during a phone call, but it may not be quite as Important.
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it if you'd let me know.
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