Thinking & Personal Effectiveness · Productivity & Work Systems
A topic within Productivity & Work Systems, itself one of 11 topics in that field and part of Thinking & Personal Effectiveness.
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Sets out a standard method for decomposing a project into a hierarchy of deliverables rather than activities, arguing that organising work by product avoids the ambiguity and duplication that task-based breakdowns produce.
link checked 17 Sept 2026E. J. Masicampo & Roy F. Baumeister
Finds that unfinished goals intrude on unrelated thinking not because they are unfinished but because they are unplanned, and that writing a specific plan quiets the intrusion as effectively as finishing the task.
link checked 17 Sept 2026