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Podcast: Health-Powered Productivity with RaderCo
Episode: 123: Don’t Improve the Symptom Before You Address the Source
Description:
In this timely episode, Marcey Rader uses a frustrating airport experience to unpack a bigger leadership problem: optimizing before prioritizing. Long lines are visible. The real issue usually is not. When leaders respond to symptoms instead of the source, they may look busy, but they won't improve outcomes.
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Why it matters
Visible action is not always meaningful action
Leaders sometimes fix what’s seen instead of what’s broken
Fewer meetings, faster decisions, and less rework start with better prioritization
Teams lose capacity when leaders solve around the bottleneck instead of removing it
What you’ll learn
Why optics...