David Allen’s carefully organized lists don’t help the project manager who must reply to dozens of emails an hour. From a slow productivity perspective, however, there’s good news embedded in this otherwise discouraging account. If much of your perceived busyness comes from talking about tasks instead of actually executing them, you might be less overloaded than you realize. In other words, if you can reduce the footprint of these conversations, the pile of actual, concrete obligations that remains might not be so forbidding. A direct strategy for reducing collaboration overhead is to replace
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