Juggling too many balls

Last few days have been crazy and.....mighty frustrating. Getting pulled into 5-6 different directions at a time and am unable to focus decently on any task-on-hand. This is not how I work and this is not what the tasks deserve. Am trying my best to set and manage expectations but......this is not that kind of place. People pay attention only when shit gets into the fan. 

It is frustrating also because of the management gyaan I have to bear with. No concrete and actionable solutions. Just 'do it' type of suggestions in motivational and crappy packaging. 

The other day one of the leaders (by designation and clearly not by actions) gave me a speech regarding how I should start thinking beyond research. Nothing wrong with that suggestion but it is just that it was uncalled for. I was taking a client through the research methodology mentioned in a proposal, which this same leader had written. He had proposed that we will do X number of interviews and will do secondary research etc. I was assigned the task to take the client through the proposal. I did not propose 'research' and he did. Yet, he had a problem with that. And he was talking about consulting when he has not worked in any consulting organization or on any strategy consulting project. He has spent his life organizing boxes in warehouses, smoking cigars paid by company corporate card and making the life of his team miserable. I am not in his team....I would have stabbed him by now.

And I am frustrated as I am unlearning (rather, compelled to unlearn) the good things that I have learned in my career so far. Juggling too many balls and few may drop. I will apply the most popular term in consulting and research and do the work on 'best-effort basis'.

Feeling tired, stressed and frustrated :(