Forward progress

Making forward progress in business means getting through lots of tasks of varying complexity and importance in the proper order and with good results. 43Folders has a two-part series called Building a Smarter To-Do List. If you're familiar with the term "Learning Organization," you might find 43Folders' ideas fall into the Personal Mastery section. By the way, I use planner.el to keep track of my planned work. It's not as glitzy as some tools, but it's clearly high in flexibility.