Urgent/important was taught to me essentially in the way that your simpler version works. I didn’t even know how it was supposed to work a different way so I learnt something new.
I wonder how typical it is that people modify the Eisenhower box with a good dollop of common sense and end up with roughly what you describe. I definitely think this version makes more sense and like the hopscotch diagram.
Thanks—glad you like it. I don’t know how the Eisenhower Box is usually taught, but from references to it online in e.g. blogs people don’t seem to question its validity. But in practice they can’t be following it that literally, e.g. they won’t be doing all the things it tells them to do and delegating all the things it tells them to delegate, etc. So I suppose they must be treating it as just a rough-and-ready guide.
I say I was taught it—it was more like my first boss saying to me “look, if you mark things as urgent/important then it helps you see which tasks you should prioritise”. I don’t think he mentioned delegation as I wouldn’t have had anyone to delegate to!
Urgent/important was taught to me essentially in the way that your simpler version works. I didn’t even know how it was supposed to work a different way so I learnt something new.
I wonder how typical it is that people modify the Eisenhower box with a good dollop of common sense and end up with roughly what you describe. I definitely think this version makes more sense and like the hopscotch diagram.
Thanks—glad you like it. I don’t know how the Eisenhower Box is usually taught, but from references to it online in e.g. blogs people don’t seem to question its validity. But in practice they can’t be following it that literally, e.g. they won’t be doing all the things it tells them to do and delegating all the things it tells them to delegate, etc. So I suppose they must be treating it as just a rough-and-ready guide.
I say I was taught it—it was more like my first boss saying to me “look, if you mark things as urgent/important then it helps you see which tasks you should prioritise”. I don’t think he mentioned delegation as I wouldn’t have had anyone to delegate to!
Sometimes you can delegate things to your boss—e.g. by declining work he tries to delegate to you (say “I’m too busy”).