Do you need to reclaim your calendar? Start here.

Imagine this: You wake up in the morning and log in to your work calendar. You see a day with a good balance of meetings that will accomplish your goals for the day, and time to do necessary work. What if we could introduce processes that minimize the time required to talk about work or fight off random tasks flung our way by equally harried co-workers? What if we could organize our days around a small number of discrete objectives? (The New Yorker: The Rise and Fall of Getting Things Done)