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Your personal system and behaviors need to be established in such a way that you can see all the action options you need to see, when you need to see them.

We are all starved for a win. It’s great to satisfy that by giving yourself doable tasks you can start and finish easily.

…if you’re… focusing on only one thing at a time, without distraction, you’ll be in your ‘zone.’

Productivity will improve only when individuals increase their operational responsiveness. And in knowledge work, that means clarifying actions on the front end instead of the back.

…deciding on and taking real next actions – actually moving on something in the physical world – is the essence of productivity.

…knowledge work will always be defined by large amounts of autonomous action.

There’s great advantage for those organizations willing to end the reign of unstructured workflow and replace it with something designed from scratch with the specific goal of maximizing value production and employee satisfaction.

If you design workflows that allow knowledge workers to spend most of their time focusing without distraction… you’ll produce much more total value…

…once you have made yourself valuable to your organization, you should use this career capital as leverage to remake your position into something more satisfying.

One tiny action, one small bite, might feel insignificant at first, but it allows you to gain the momentum you need to ramp up to bigger challenges and faster progress.