About this episode

Sara Parrott discusses her successful implementation of GTD and how it allowed her to delegate her job during maternity leave.

Sara tells about implementing GTD so well that she was able to smoothly delegate her job during maternity leave. She describes how she encourages her staff to apply GTD best practices. She has interesting things to say about adapting contexts to current reality. And she shares about the tools she uses to manage her lists in a very full life.

People in this episode

Guest: Sara Parrott

Topics covered

• GTD implementation
• delegation
• staff encouragement
• context adaptation
• list management

Keywords

• GTD
• delegation
• maternity leave
• staff
• best practices
• context
• tools
• list management

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