{"id":338,"date":"2008-07-02T05:50:48","date_gmt":"2008-07-02T13:50:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gtdtimes.com\/2008\/07\/02\/how-we-successfully-implemented-gtd-across-our-company-thereby-increasing-productivity-making-work-fun\/"},"modified":"2014-02-03T14:33:47","modified_gmt":"2014-02-03T22:33:47","slug":"how-we-successfully-implemented-gtd-across-our-company-thereby-increasing-productivity-making-work-fun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gettingthingsdone.com\/2008\/07\/how-we-successfully-implemented-gtd-across-our-company-thereby-increasing-productivity-making-work-fun\/","title":{"rendered":"How we Successfully Implemented GTD across our Company thereby Increasing Productivity & Making Work Fun."},"content":{"rendered":"

Editor’s Note:\u00a0 This is the first in what I expect will be a series of posts from\u00a0 Arif and Ali of Vakil Housing<\/a> – which to our knowledge is the first company in India to implement GTD across their entire workforce. <\/em><\/p>\n

Story by Arif Vakil<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"vhdc-loves-gtd_300-px.jpg\"<\/a>How I first came across GTD<\/strong><\/p>\n

It was more than two years ago that I learned about GTD.\u00a0 I was taking care of the HR department of Vakil Housing<\/a> (our Company) then.\u00a0 I was buried with applications that were flowing in for the various positions open in our growing company.\u00a0 The applications were coming in through mail, through post, some were personally delivered.\u00a0 To organize myself I started making stacks of these applications all around me for the different positions we had to offer and eventually ran out of space on my desk.\u00a0 I badly needed a system to file all these applications in such a way so that I could retrieve an application within 30 seconds the moment I needed it.\u00a0 There began my internet searching for a good filing system.\u00a0 Little did I know that the system I would come across would become one of the most significant changes in my life and at our company, Vakil Housing.<\/p>\n

I really could go on and on how every so much GTD has benefited us.\u00a0 Each time I go through my actions when I’m in a particular context and “knock a few suckers” out from my list or when I come up with a truly Brilliant, Wild Success solution by using the Natural Planning Model, I always tell myself that it’s not because of me, but it’s thanks to G-O-D that I learned G-T-D which have led to such wonderful results.
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\nHow far we’ve reached in GTD implementation as a Company<\/strong>
\nAs all GTD implementers would earnestly agree, GTD certainly sky-rockets ones productivity levels.\u00a0 Because of GTD, I have been:<\/p>\n