Author

Rebecca R. Merrill

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

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The story and the impact

Rebecca R. 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 A. Roger Merrill she wrote First Things First (1994), which develops the third of the seven habits, putting first things first, into a way of planning each week around what matters most rather than around what is most pressing.

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The book she co-wrote treats time as a question of values before it is a question of technique: what the hours are for comes before how to fit more into them, and the week, not the day, is where that question gets answered.