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Prioritize Competing Urgent Deadlines

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You are juggling several urgent workstreams at once: a Salesforce Data Cloud ingestion pipeline issue affecting downstream reporting, a near-term delivery for a new data set needed by Sales Cloud analytics, and a request from leadership for faster turnaround on a high-visibility dashboard. All of them are framed as critical, but you have limited time and not everything can move at full speed simultaneously.

Question

How do you prioritize tasks when you have multiple urgent deadlines?