steptwo has an excellent article enumerating the 10 Principles of Effective Information Management.
I have to agree with lifehack that principle five ‘take a journey of a thousand steps’ is one of the real keys here. Too often I have seen important strategic changes not put into place because they would never be implemented as their own project. However, they could be just as easily broken down into manageable chunks and implemented along with other projects.
via lifehack.org