BOTH OF US MISSED controlling how we spent our time. And early on, we didn’t feel that we were accomplishing what we wanted. As we walked to the car at night, we would assess how we had fared during the workday with the shorthand of whether we were “respected” or “not respected,” and whether we were “effective” or “not effective.” I would typically tell Cass that I had landed, yet again, in the lower left-hand quadrant: “not respected, not effective.”
