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Loading... Getting things done : the art of stress-free productivityby David Allen
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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. Another system for organization and task management, along with Franklin Covey, Day Timer, etc. Some, like myself jugling work and family obligations, may find the focus on tasks and contexts more useful that the alternatives which focus on goals and objectives. However, these are not mutually exlcusive philosophies, just different appraoches to help one get started with getting one's head around one's life--bottom up or top down. (  )dpevers | Jul 7, 2009 |   Getting Things Done covers organization from the perspective of helping you think about how to manage your committments. It does not promise a "system" that will correct your disorganization. I use the concepts from this book in my daily life. (  )annkucera | Jun 8, 2009 | I included this book in my book: The 100 Best Business Books of All Time. www.100bestbiz.com. ( )toddsattersten | May 8, 2009 |   a few good ideas about time management and project management. I liked his suggestion to make a "next step" list--forces you to really clarify what needs to be done next for each task, therefore you actually can make traction on things that seem too overwhelming (or too "simple--you can realize that the reason you're not getting the task done is that the first step is too irritating or boring, or whatever). recommended mochap | Apr 12, 2009 | A clearly presented method for getting organized and being productive. Mr. Allen presents his method clearly and with easy steps that make the method easy to follow. As with any method of organization, I suggest reading the method and adapting it to make it work for you, as no method will work completely for everybody, but this method is presented in a way that it is adaptable for many people. ( )synchroswimr | Mar 25, 2009 | 1  0.129 seconds to build listing  no reviews | add a review
Amazon.com (ISBN 0142000280, Paperback)With first-chapter allusions to martial arts, "flow," "mind like water," and other concepts borrowed from the East (and usually mangled), you'd almost think this self-helper from David Allen should have been called Zen and the Art of Schedule Maintenance.Not quite. Yes, Getting Things Done offers a complete system for downloading all those free-floating gotta-do's clogging your brain into a sophisticated framework of files and action lists--all purportedly to free your mind to focus on whatever you're working on. However, it still operates from the decidedly Western notion that if we could just get really, really organized, we could turn ourselves into 24/7 productivity machines. (To wit, Allen, whom the New Economy bible Fast Company has dubbed "the personal productivity guru," suggests that instead of meditating on crouching tigers and hidden dragons while you wait for a plane, you should unsheathe that high-tech saber known as the cell phone and attack that list of calls you need to return.) As whole-life-organizing systems go, Allen's is pretty good, even fun and therapeutic. It starts with the exhortation to take every unaccounted-for scrap of paper in your workstation that you can't junk, The next step is to write down every unaccounted-for gotta-do cramming your head onto its own scrap of paper. Finally, throw the whole stew into a giant "in-basket" That's where the processing and prioritizing begin; in Allen's system, it get a little convoluted at times, rife as it is with fancy terms, subterms, and sub-subterms for even the simplest concepts. Thank goodness the spine of his system is captured on a straightforward, one-page flowchart that you can pin over your desk and repeatedly consult without having to refer back to the book. That alone is worth the purchase price. Also of value is Allen's ingenious Two-Minute Rule: if there's anything you absolutely must do that you can do right now in two minutes or less, then do it now, thus freeing up your time and mind tenfold over the long term. It's commonsense advice so obvious that most of us completely overlook it, much to our detriment; Allen excels at dispensing such wisdom in this useful, if somewhat belabored, self-improver aimed at everyone from CEOs to soccer moms (who we all know are more organized than most CEOs to start with). --Timothy Murphy (retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:58:04 -0400) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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