The Eisenhower Matrix

Urgent and important are not the same thing. Most people spend too much time on urgent unimportant tasks.

Definition

A prioritisation framework that sorts tasks into four quadrants by urgency and importance, attributed to Dwight Eisenhower and popularised by Stephen Covey.

Step 1

Predict first

In one or two sentences, what do you think this concept means? Wrong is fine; the small struggle is what makes the answer stick.