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Chapter 3
Being More
Productive
An Interview withDavid Allen
and Tony Schwartz
byDaniel McGinn
David Allen is a productivity consultant and the author
of the best seller Getting Things Done, which outlines
the list-driven effi ciency system adherents call by its
acronym: GTD. Tony Schwartz, the author of the best-
seller Be Excellent at Anything, is the CEO of The En-
ergy Project, which helps people and organizations fuel
engagement and productivity by drawing on the science
of high performance.
Excerpted from Harvard Business Review, May 2011 (product
# R1105D).
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