How do you decide which fire gets your attention first?

I run into the same moment most weeks, a client goes quiet, an employee seems off, and a report shows a number that looks slightly wrong, all on the same morning. Nothing on paper says which one to handle first. Whatever I choose usually comes down to instinct built from watching the same three businesses long enough to recognize a pattern, not from anything a dashboard actually told me.

Curious how other founders running more than one business, or more than one location, decide what gets handled first when everything looks equally urgent on the surface. Is it always the loudest voice, or is there something quieter you have learned to notice first?