This is further complicated by some people overestimating their ability to optimize things, and underestimating the costs (in time, but also psychological) of doing that optimization. For example, I worked in a company that had lots of meetings to make sure that we were doing the higher-priority task instead of a lower-priority task, but I often suspected that if we didn’t have these meetings, we would simply have enough time to do both. Maybe in the wrong order, but the overall outcome would still be better.
This is further complicated by some people overestimating their ability to optimize things, and underestimating the costs (in time, but also psychological) of doing that optimization. For example, I worked in a company that had lots of meetings to make sure that we were doing the higher-priority task instead of a lower-priority task, but I often suspected that if we didn’t have these meetings, we would simply have enough time to do both. Maybe in the wrong order, but the overall outcome would still be better.