Quoted: "SHOCKING" evidence reveals more than 90 per cent of workers are stressed and less productive in open-plan offices.

I recently read this and "Take Back you Life". Apparently, the respective authors co-developed the concepts. I actually preferred "Take Back Your Life" because it is more actionable, but I am happy I read both. I am employing most of the techniques from the two books such as:
1) Record (but don't necessarily do) *every* task that comes to your mind.
2) Only put "strategic next actions" on your active task list. A strategic next action is a task without dependencies that furthers one of your meaningful objectives
3) Structure your planning system and reference system around your meaningful objectives and supporting projects
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Quoted: Amazon.com: Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity: David Allen: Books

Quoted: The concept is simple: I have one week to attempt to learn what is usually learned over 5-20 years. I either crash and burn — or survive by the skin of my teeth — in a final test (trial by fire) each time.

Free electronic version of a new productivity/GTD magazine.

I agree.

Quoted: Instead of constantly capturing everything you want to do on a list that gets longer instead of shorter each day? Focus on five intentions for your day and stick to 'em—everything else goes on a different list.

I agree with this. This article mentions software utilities that try to solve the problem.

Quoted: That's the large display paradox. Having all that space can make you less productive due to all the window manipulation excise you have to deal with to make effective use of it.

If you need to justify that bigger computer monitor purchase, here you go. How can you challenge the Wall Street Journal?

Quoted: Their finding: People using the 24-inch screen completed the tasks 52% faster than people who used the 18-inch monitor; people who used the two 20-inch monitors were 44% faster than those with the 18-inch ones. There is an upper limit, however: Productivity dropped off again when people used a 26-inch screen. (The order of the tasks and the order of computer configurations were assigned randomly.)

Quoted: The Eisenhower Matrix takes a step towards identifying the important from the non-important stuff. You define what is important and what is not, based on what is important to you.