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HBR 20-Minute Manager Boxed Set (10 Books) (HBR 20-Minute Manager Series)

by Harvard Business Review
May 2015
Beginner
1244 pages
13h 49m
English
Harvard Business Review Press
Content preview from HBR 20-Minute Manager Boxed Set (10 Books) (HBR 20-Minute Manager Series)
Managing Time
46
The following two-by-two matrix—popularized
by productivity expert Stephen Covey—will help you
prioritize your tasks based on their importance and
urgency. When examining an item on your to-do list
or assessing a new task that you’ve just been assigned,
decide if it’s urgent (needs to be done soon) or not ur-
gent, and whether it’s important (will have a big im-
pact) or unimportant, and then apply these preestab-
lished rules.
1. Urgent and important. These are the cri-
ses and deadlines that you have to deal with
throughout the course of the week. Say there’s
a problem with a product that you oversee, the
website that you help maintain, or a big client
that you handle. These should always be your
highest priority.
2. Not urgent ...
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ISBN: 9781633690967