GETTING THINGS DONE

September 1, 1984 Readers learn how to focus on the "big picture"--discovering the common pitfalls of too much paperwork, bottlenecks and meeting multiple deadlines Front Cover Title Table of Contents Introduction Chapters After-Action Reports Alcohol Behavior Modification Bottlenecks Breaks Briefcase Categories of Time Use Clutter Communication Commute Time Concentration Conference Calls Copies Correspondence Crisis Deadlines Delegation Dictating Machines Efficiency Versus Effectiveness Exercise Fear Files, Proliferation of Files, Two Thoughts on Follow-Up Fun Goals If Only Indecision Information Overload Inturruptions Lists Lunch Hour Management by Objectives Meetings Memoranda Mental Blocks Naps No Office Arrangement Overstaffing Paper Work, Cost of Paper Work: The Marks & Spencer Experience Paper-Work Quiz Pareto Principle Parkinson's Law Perfectionism Planning Priorities Procrastination Protecting Prime Time Radical Surgery Self-Quiz Sleep Speed Reading Subordinates' Time Tempo Tension and Time Use Tidbits of Time Time, Dollar Value of Time For What? Time Log Time Management and Your Heart Time, Scheduling Tranquillity Unfinished Business Upward Delegation Wastebasketry Weekends Wheel-Spinning Words to Work by Workaholic A Final Word About the Author Back Cover The Bible before David Allen ́s GTD. Edwin C. Bliss failed in protecting his trademark regarding "Getting things done" and that ́s too bad from the hsitorical point of view. LOL.