{"id":11217,"date":"2014-04-17T15:13:55","date_gmt":"2014-04-17T22:13:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gettingthingsdone.com\/?p=11217"},"modified":"2014-04-19T13:49:05","modified_gmt":"2014-04-19T20:49:05","slug":"gtd-is-a-key-to-organizational-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gettingthingsdone.com\/2014\/04\/gtd-is-a-key-to-organizational-success\/","title":{"rendered":"GTD &#8211; A Key to Organizational Success"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.softwareadvice.com\/\" title=\"Software Advice\" target=\"_blank\">Software Advice<\/a> blog called A Million Little Wins has a post about how they&#8217;ve applied GTD at an organizational level.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Borrowing from the classic text on organization, <em>Getting Things Done<\/em> by David Allen, we updated the author\u2019s advice to reflect the modern project management tools that we use and adapted his core principles to apply to our business. Here\u2019s what we teach to all of our employees:<\/p>\n<p>This is our adaptation of Allen\u2019s \u201cgetting things done.\u201d\u00a0 The principle is twofold:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Get everything out of your head and documented in one place. Most people know that if you need to remember something, you should write it down. However, most people also write a lot of different things down in a lot of different places. If you really want to get and stay organized, you need to have one dedicated place where you document all the things you need to remember and the tasks you need to complete. Here, we use a web-based project management application called <a href=\"https:\/\/basecamp.com\/\">Basecamp<\/a> to keep track of everything.<\/li>\n<li>Break up projects into manageable chunks. In the corporate world, you\u2019re frequently given multiple projects that each have multiple steps. When you think about all the things you have to do to complete them at once, it can seem overwhelming. So we teach our employees to focus on the very next step that needs to be taken to complete each of their projects. This makes projects feel more manageable, and allows everyone to always be making progress. We keep track of these next steps in <a href=\"https:\/\/basecamp.com\/\">Basecamp<\/a>, too.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You can read the\u00a0<a title=\"A Million Little Wins\" href=\"http:\/\/wins.softwareadvice.com\/our-bad-ass-execution-principles-0713\/\" target=\"_blank\">full post here<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/gettingthingsdone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/BAE.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11220\" alt=\"BAE\" src=\"https:\/\/gettingthingsdone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/BAE.jpg\" width=\"299\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Software Advice blog called A Million Little Wins has a post about how they&#8217;ve applied GTD at an organizational level. Borrowing from the classic text on organization, Getting Things Done by David Allen, we updated the author\u2019s advice to reflect the modern project management tools that we use and adapted his core principles to &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/gettingthingsdone.com\/2014\/04\/gtd-is-a-key-to-organizational-success\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;GTD &#8211; A Key to Organizational Success&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":11261,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[697,1,32,696],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community-stories","category-featured","category-productivity-tips","category-press","entry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.8 (Yoast SEO v26.8) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>GTD - A Key to Organizational Success - Getting Things Done\u00ae<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/gettingthingsdone.com\/2014\/04\/gtd-is-a-key-to-organizational-success\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"GTD - A Key to Organizational Success\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Software Advice blog called A Million Little Wins has a post about how they&#8217;ve applied GTD at an organizational level. 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