Each new set receives a lot of advice when starting. Officials and advisers point to important documents co-authored by them. Lobbyists show that they know how to help and generate ideas to wait. Those who felt left out point out that things need to be done differently. Someone has projects and measures in their drawer that were unjustly neglected in the past. Taking into account all possible goals and conflicting interests has led in the recent past to unrealistic promises, unfulfilled expectations, micro-management, but also to ignoring strategic matters, decisions to add gas and at the same time step on the brakes. A responsible manager should look at the capacities that will realistically be available to him, compare them with the demands placed on him and ask himself the question "WHAT NOT TO DO?". In his contribution, Emil Fitoš will talk about which priorities are not really priorities, which activities are a waste of energy and which promises are better not to make.