We are going to talk about time management and Covey´s point of view. In The 7 Habits of
Highly Effective People, Stephen Covey developed the time management matrix.
This matrix shows that managers spend their time in four different quadrants, performing
activities that are urgent and important, urgent but not important, not urgent
but important, and not urgent and not important.
Covey points out that urgent means something
requiring immediate attention. On the other hand, something important deals
with results, such as your values, your mission, and your goals, your plan. The
urgent and important quadrant reflects crisis management. Covey says that we
all have some crises in our lives, but this quadrant consumes many people who
are problem solvers and deadline driven. Many people prefer spending time in this quadrant because they like
doing important, also what they think are urgent, things.
Then there are those who spend large parts of
their time in the urgent and not important quadrant , thinking they're actually
in the urgent and important quadrant. They react to urgent situations thinking
that they are important, but Covey says that "the urgency of these matters
is often based on the priorities and expectations of others".
Covey points out that the not urgent and
important quadrant "is the heart of personal management". He goes
on to say that "effective people stay out of the Urgent and Not
Important quadrant and the Not Urgent and Not Important quadrant, urgent or
not, they aren't important". This last point is critical. By putting
effort into the not urgent and important quadrant. As Covey says, be able to "shrink the
Urgent and Important quadrant down to size by spending more time in the Not
Urgent and Important quadrant".
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