Getting Things Done Getting Projects Under Control After years of working with thousands of professionals down in the trenches, I can safely say that virtually all of us could be doing [...]

Getting Things Done The “Bigger Picture” Reviews Yes, at some point you must clarify the larger outcomes, the long-term goals, the visions and principles that ultimately drive, test, and prioritize your [...]

Getting Things Done Organizing “Waiting For” Manage the commitments of others before their avoidance creates a crisis. Like reminders of the actions you need to do, reminders of all the things that you’re [...]

Getting Things Done Organizing Action Reminders  If you’ve emptied your in-tray, you’ll have created a stack of Pending reminders for yourself, representing longer-than-two-minute actions that cannot be delegated to someone else. [...]

Getting Things Done Once You Decide What the Action Step Is  You have three options once you decide what the next action really is: Do it(if the action takes less than [...]

Getting Things Done Incubate There will probably be things in your in-tray about which you will say to yourself, “There’s nothing to do on this now, but there might be later.” [...]

Getting Things Done Clarifying: Getting “In” to Empty Assuming that you  have collected everything that has your attention, your job now is to actually get to the bottom of “in.” Getting [...]