2. I will talk about… “ Every decade has its defining self-help business book. In the 1940s it was How to Win Friends and Influence People, in the 1990s The Seven Habits of Highly Successful People. These days we're worried about something much simpler: Getting Things Done.” - Time (3/3/07) "I get 2,000 e-mails a day, but now my inbox is empty” - Mark Ferlatte, Linden Labs (Second Life) Getting things done has sold over half a million copies, has been translated into 23 different languages, and is currently #29 on Amazon’s best seller list.