Chapter 10
The Hard Drive for High Productivity
In This Chapter
• The rise of megalomania
• Don’t fight the system
• Handheld and powerful
 
In the first four chapters of Part 3, thus far we have addressed organizational issues related to your desk, files, shelves, and office; paper and correspondence; important versus urgent criteria, and e-mail. Now we turn to the issue of organizing information per se, as in what do we do with all this stuff?! What do we make of it? How can we classify information and benefit from it?

The Rise of Electronic Addiction

One of the strangest phenomena I’ve encountered in my 22 years as an author and speaker is the rise of electronic addiction among career professionals. Electronic addiction is the overarching ...

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