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The Preface Years ago, I set out to design a system that would get me out of overload. I needed help badly. My days were full of customer complaints, sales groups pushing for questionable technologies, and a jumble of missions from top management. I was coping by the thinnest of margins. I had tried different organizational systems, and sometimes one would help for a while.