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Urgency Has An Infrastructure—Importance Does Not: How To Reclaim Your Time

Nell Derick Debevoise
13 March 2025
4 min
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Urgent requests are increasing within modern workplaces. The attention and response required exhausts and stresses us, and lowers priority to address the important. Eisenhower Matrix is a strategy to wrest back time from the urgent.
READ: Urgency has an infrastructure—importance does not: how to reclaim your time

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  • Forbes Magazine: Mostly factual reporting
  • COLLECTIONS/The Runway (airforce.gov.au)
  • RAAF RUNWAY: RATIONALE, GUIDELINES, LEARNING OUTCOMES, ETC. 
 

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