Periodic Table of Frameworks · Time · Person
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Eisenhower matrix
Dwight D. Eisenhower / Stephen Covey
You want a day that belongs to what matters. The problem is everything that yells gets the hour. Two questions: urgent or not, important or not. That is the whole choice. Skip them and you will be busy until you are empty. Sort them and the important-not-urgent box is where a life is built.
Urgent
Not urgent
Important
Not important
Do
Urgent and important.
Schedule
Important, not urgent.
Delegate
Urgent, not important.
Delete
Neither.
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A task is urgent or not, important or not. Those two questions are the whole choice.
Use this on a task. It answers: Where does the time go?
The other half
The matrix names the important-not-urgent box. The Slight Edge is what you do in that box for years.
How this talks to the others
Leads into
Two fearsUrgency is often not-enough in a hurry. The important-not-urgent work is where not-loved waits.
Pushes against
Rapid Planning MethodThe matrix sorts tasks. RPM refuses the task as the unit. The Result is.
Pushes against
Deep workThe matrix sorts by urgency. Deep work treats urgency as a trap. They disagree about the hour.
Leads into
Balanced ScorecardThe scorecard is what makes important-not-urgent visible as a number. Without it, the matrix is a feeling.
Seminars