Erika Jones, CFO, CCTAProfit First Professionals · Certified Fractional CFO and Profit First Professional

📈 The Eisenhower Matrix #businesshacks #smallbusiness #efficiencytips #eisenhowermatrix

13 Mar 2024 · 1 min

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In this brief talk, the speaker references President Dwight Eisenhower’s distinction between urgent and important problems and introduces the Eisenhower Matrix as a practical tool for business decision‑making. The matrix divides tasks into four quadrants: (1) Not urgent / Not important – discard; (2) Urgent / Not important – reduce or delegate; (3) Urgent / Important – treat as emergencies and give them top priority; (4) Not urgent / Important – focus here to drive strategic progress. The speaker emphasizes that businesses should clear the first three quadrants appropriately and concentrate their effort on the fourth quadrant to move the business forward.

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Dwight eisenhower was our 34th president and a five star general. He said, I have two kinds of problems. The urgent and the important. The urgent are not important and the important are never urgent. Hence the Eisenhower matrix. Something you need to use in your business. There are four quadrants. First, the not urgent, not important. Do not do this work. Second, there's the urgent, but not important. Reduce this, delegate it out. You must clear it out. Thirdly, there's the urgent and important. The are emergencies only. If you live here, you're in big trouble. And this is where you need to focus all of your attention. They're not urgent, but important. This is where businesses move forward. Move from here to there. Thanks, Dwight.