How New Managers Can Set Their Team Up for Prioritization

New Manager Conversations with Fexingo: First 90 Days, Managing Former Peers, and Leadership Basics · May 30, 2026 · 6m · transcript

Episode 21 of New Manager Conversations tackles one of the trickiest early leadership skills: helping your team prioritize when everything feels urgent. Lucas and Luna dig into the 'priority debt' trap — where new managers pile on tasks without clear sequencing, leading to burnout and half-finished work. They break down a real framework from a product leader at a mid-sized SaaS company who uses a simple 'must-do, should-do, could-do' grid with a twist: explicit time budgets per category. Lucas explains why the biggest mistake new managers make is treating prioritization as…