Are Smartphones Triggering a Productivity Boom?

Are Smartphones Triggering a Productivity Boom? A Q&A with David Allen

Getting to done with email backlog

How much email backlog do you still have? How would you tackle that as a project?

Offline management for the effective executive

When you’re deciding which GTD context list is right for that next communication, consider whether email is a rich enough medium.

GTD Connect at a discount if you are in education, government, or nonprofit

Do you work in an educational, governmental, or nonprofit organization? Then you qualify for a discount on your GTD Connect® membership.

28% of work week on email

A report from the McKinsey Global Institute says that “interaction workers” spend 28% of their work week reading and answering email.

Email management tip: Take a breath

How about this for a free email productivity hack? Breathing!

Too many next actions?

You have as many commitments as you have, and unless you want eternal subliminal stress, you need to get them objectively out of your head and reviewable.

Only You Can Prevent Brain Abuse – 4 Items to Monitor

Identify your brain’s strengths and weaknesses, and stop giving it things to do that it doesn’t do very well.

What’s your standard for email?

I assert that it’s actually less effort to maintain your email inbox at zero than to maintain it at 300 or 3,000. Will it take effort? Of course. But there is gold to be mined there with a trusted practice that will have ripple effects across your workflow and motivation.

Mastering Workflow for Business Leaders in Portland

David Allen Company is presenting a Mastering Workflow for Business Leaders public seminar in Portland on Tuesday, July 10th. This seminar is ideal if you need better productivity solutions for a small team, large division, or your entire company.