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Tag: productivity

  • Mr Garvey and his newspaper clippings at Sprowston High School in the mid-90s

    Mr Garvey was a standout character in Sprowston High School in the mid 1990s.  He arrived in classrooms late, moving quickly, as if he had learned of his assignment seconds before beaming from Supply Teacher Alphacenturi and materialising on to the melamine floor just outside the door.  “Settle down. SETTLE DOWN.”                                                                      Slim and upright, he…

  • The important vs urgent matrix (or the Eisenhower Box)

    Here’s a useful model for working out what you should do and when. To organize your time, start with the two easy quadrants: Next, turn to the trickier quadrants: Watch out for Keeping “busy”. We think we’re being productive when we’re bashing away at a keyboard, sending emails, answering rote customer queries, attending meetings without…