Most employees spend their time completing unimportant tasks for which they have been given firm schedules and deadlines. Efficient employees know how to ignore such demands and instead spend their time on projects that will yield big rewards for their employers if successful, even when such projects carry the risk of significant loss if unsuccessful. Which one of the following is an example of efficiency as described above? ['spending time each morning scheduling tasks according to the most immediate deadlines', 'meeting daily with other staff members to discuss workloads and schedules', 'deciding to take an urgent call from a major customer instead of being punctual at a monthly sales meeting', 'instead of working on a report that a supervisor has ordered completed by the following day, spending the entire afternoon completing routine correspondence that could be delayed']