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September 12, 2005

GTD and a culture

Wonderful anecdote I just received from one of our favorite clients - Kevin Wilde, the Chief Learning Officer for General Mills. We've been collaborating with Kevin and his terrific Organization Effectiveness team to integrate GTD into their culture.

Just encountered something you might find interesting ... As you know, we're two years into the GTD journey here at General Mills. With you and your great team's help, we have trained nearly 2,000 employees. It's exciting to see us reaching critical mass now and starting to realize the benefits we imagined. So here's a pleasant surprise we didn't expect: A GTD grad who told me today she just transitioned to a new job and it was the smoothest handoff and the most powerful start-up she ever had in her career. Reason? The successor and predecessor are GTD practitioners! As the two leaders sat down to turn over the role: - the resource and project files were in great shape, - the various job-related task lists and @agendas were used as a discussion guide, - the levels from runway and above were used to set start-up priorities and understand overall job charter.

So the new leader is off to a great start. And the predecessor can move on to her new role having brought terrific closure to the old job. Now that's "Getting Things Done." - Kevin Wilde

Posted by David at September 12, 2005 08:41 AM

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On a similar note, I just had a fantastic meeting with my business partner (who I also happen to be married to), and although she is not at all a GTD-practitioner, my 20,000 foot list related to our business provided the foundation for a very fruitfull, and creative discussion.

Posted by: Jeff K at September 12, 2005 10:31 AM

I am an entrepreneur and will eventually need to have a secretary. Even though I am not to that point yet, rest assured, thanks to GTD, it will be so easy to hand things over to someone else. I no longer worry about what I'll do when it comes time that I'll need to delegate - I think it will be very easy and happen very seamlessly, thanks to GTD and "next actions."

Posted by: Tana at September 12, 2005 02:24 PM