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How teams navigate GTD implementation that improves individual but hurts collective performance

Our team adopted GTD company-wide six months ago and everyone's personal productivity has improved but our collaborative work has gotten worse because everyone's so focused on their own next actions that we've lost the rhythm of working together. We're more organized but less connected and I don't know how to bring this up without sounding like I'm against productivity.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The pursuit of individual systematic clarity can fragment the organic intelligence that emerges from working together.

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