First Things First
Stephen Covey, A. Roger Merrill, and Rebecca R. Merrill
Covey and the Merrills extend the 7 Habits framework into a system organized around roles and priorities rather than tasks and schedules. Its jar demonstration (rocks, gravel, and sand) is why selection sequence matters: big rocks placed first let the rest settle around them; placed last, they don't fit. The Quarterly Operating System uses this in Chapter 2 to justify pre-quarter loading and in Chapter 5 to open the Priority Cut.
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The Quarterly Operating System
Rocks, Gravel and Sand
Big rocks go in the jar first, or they never fit.
Primary source: Stephen R. Covey, A. Roger Merrill, and Rebecca R. Merrill, First Things First.
The Quarterly Operating System
The Eisenhower Matrix
Four quadrants that show whose priorities your calendar runs on.
Primary sources: Dwight D. Eisenhower, the originating attribution, 1954; Stephen R. Covey, First Things First.
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