Author

A. Roger Merrill

Co-author, with Stephen R. Covey and Rebecca R. Merrill, of First Things First, on putting importance before urgency.

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The story and the impact

A. Roger Merrill was associated with the Covey Leadership Center, the training and consulting firm Stephen R. Covey founded, which later merged with Franklin Quest to form FranklinCovey.

With Covey and Rebecca R. Merrill he wrote First Things First (1994), which takes the third of the seven habits, putting first things first, and develops it into a weekly way of planning around roles, goals and the work that is important but not urgent.

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The book he co-wrote is about the practical side of time: turning a sense of what matters into a weekly plan that can survive the week. It keeps returning to the link between principle and calendar, and to the moment when a new demand tests the plan.