It always amazes me that so many senior executives have so much trouble managing their time. The idea that they might systematically sort their to-do list into four prioritised categories often seems to come to them as a massive new insight.
Just in case this might be useful for you, this is what I
teach:
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Urgent and important things: get top priority and most of your time
- Important but non-urgent things: get the rest of your time
- Urgent but unimportant things: are delegated - all of them (or dumped)
- Unimportant, non-urgent things: are dumped immediately
In the case of a group of senior academics at City
University London, all of whom felt desperately overstretched, they told me
that I just didn’t understand. Of course, that’s true. But they doubtless
remain continuously in borderline meltdown.
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