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When groups abandon GTD principles under pressure

Our volunteer organization adopted GTD for project management but people keep reverting to email for everything urgent, which defeats the whole purpose, and I don't know how to address it without sounding like the productivity police.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

A collective commitment to systematic work breaks down precisely when the system would be most valuable.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with GTD — Getting Things Done and its philosophy?”

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