Foreword
I first met Russell Bishop in 1978 when I participated in a selfdevelopment seminar he was leading. Within the first hour of the event I told myself, “I’m going to work with this guy!” He was demonstrating a mature command of core principles of effective behavior along with an uncanny knack for making them real, digestible, and immediately usable for an amazing range of people and circumstances. This was true “life” education, in my view, and gave me a star to follow in my own career.
I fulfilled my prophecy, spending several years in close quarters with Russell professionally and personally. Our collaboration planted and nurtured the seeds of what was to become the core of my work in productivity—the Getting Things Done (GTD) methodology. ...
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