Importance is a relative concept. It depends a lot on perception, information, context and criteria. Based on importance, priorities can be set. And if you take the concept of importance to its core, priorities should shift pretty much constantly...
I say should, because priorities don't necessarily shift when they need to. Sometimes factually unimportant items are marked highly important. Other times very important items are forgotten.
What's even more common is that priorities do in fact match and reflect their real importance, but only for a short while, until other tasks jump to the forefront, and unbalance everything.
Priorities are not a given. What is important, is only so within certain constraints, a time frame. There will always be clashes, overlaps, comebacks. And yet we always need to align and reach agreement. Interests will be upheld or overturned.
What we need are leaders that can clearly set priorities, shift them if necessary or keep them in place when needed. That is what we should strive for.
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