Last week, I talked about the principles of time management covered in an excellent book: “The 7 habits of highly effective people” by Stephen Covey. I went over the four quadrants in which we can place any and all of our activities and how leadership is focused on Quadrant 2 activities (those that are important but not urgent). The book also talks about how we should identify the different roles we have in our lives (e.g. entrepreneur, father, husband/partner, etc.) in order to establish our priorities. We can then identify a few key quadrant 2 activities for each role that we hope to accomplish over the course of following week.
This week, I will summarize the point of view of another great author on the subject of personal productivity. In his book, “The 4-hour Workweek”, Tim Ferris uses an interesting title for his chapter on time management: “The end of time management” (how can anyone resist after reading such a title?). He makes an interesting distinction between ‘being effective’ and ‘being efficient’. Read more »