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 enlarge | Author: David Allen
Publisher: audible.com
Category: Book
List Price: $18.00
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Avg. Customer Rating:  468 reviews
Sales Rank: 6507712
Media: Audio Download
ASIN: B00005V7Q4
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 Truly the guide to stress-free productivity July 21, 2001
48 out of 48 found this review helpful
I manage a team of twenty, in a very stress-filled IT environment. We juggle multiple projects with overlapping deadlines all the time. This book taught me far more than the well known time management guides and gurus. I learned to put EVERYTHING - my work life, personal life, dream life into one place, and organize it all based on me - my life, current job, etc. I also used it to help my team. We now breeze through our deadlines, with lots of productivity and very little stress. We are able to work long hours when needed, and take time off when needed. I urge anyone who is feeling overwhelmed in their life and career to give this process a try. You will be very glad you did.
I also recommend Ready for Anything and his forthcoming book Making It All Work: Winning at the Game of Work and Business of Life (due out December 30, 2008.)
David Allen has a wonderful web site www.davidco.com where you can get more GTD information and products, and lots of free GTD coaching tips.
An excellent, immensely practical book July 18, 2001
22 out of 22 found this review helpful
Anyone who manages multiple projects or a complex individual role will find this book an invaluable help (unless you are already superbly organized). Out of the many books available on time management, priority-setting, and turning plans into action, this is one of the very best. David Allen's system takes some investment of time to implement but then speeds up decision-making and improves clarity of thought by downloading all your free floating concerns into a well-developed framework of files and action lists. This allows you to focus on your current task without worrying about forgetting something and without losing track of materials needed in the future. After explaining his view of mastering workflow and project planning, Allen shows you how to set up for the process and then has you corral all your "stuff". You then process this until your in-boxes are empty. He shows clearly how to organize materials for reference and for later action, stresses the importance of regular review, and shows how to keep projects under control. Implementing the whole program requires an investment of time (preferably two full days), though some techniques can be put to use immediately with clear rewards, such as the two-minute rule and the use of special folders for action items that will help you clear your paper and email in-boxes, freeing your mind to focus on current tasks. Highly recommended for busy executives and anyone with a complicated life.
It works May 27, 2001
18 out of 18 found this review helpful
I read a lot of business and personal productivity texts. A lot of ideas sound good but my difficulty has always been integrating them into my daily routine. I took a few concepts from this book and those are to put "everything" in one list, review it frequently, classify tasks into a small number of categories, never leave anything in your inbox, do anything that can be done in two minutes immediately and most importantly, ensure that every list item is a specific action.It is now about a month since I read the book and I'm still using the system and it is still successful. I feel very at ease with what I need to do because it is on a list and things have stopped slipping through the cracks. This book has given me some very useful advice and it has worked very well for me. It does take quite a time committment up front to get the simple system in place.
Practical, Useful and Well Delivered. What More Do You Need? May 27, 2001
32 out of 32 found this review helpful
Too many books on getting organized tend to be, well, unorganized. Or worse, impractical. They take digressions through academic theories or offer advice which simply won't work in the real world.Not so with David Allen's "Getting Things Done." He offers clear, concise insights on action-oriented steps anyone can implement to make their worklife more productive and stress free. (He recommends the same approach for dealing with your personal life, and while they may work in this context, I'm not sure how many folks really want to run my family like a business). Yes, a lot of Allen's advice is simple common sense and he tends to offer lists which simply added pages instead of help. Nonetheless, he presents obvious insights in useful context by showing how they've worked with his clients and it's simple to skip the unnecessary lists. The key is (and this is why I awarded five stars instead of four) Allen's advice is aimed at folks who live in the real world. You can actually implement what he talks about and see results. While the book may not change your life, it will certainly help you keep it organized and focused. "Getting Things Done" is an ideal gift for the colleague who is more of a "big picture"-type than a detail person.
Great May 19, 2001
8 out of 9 found this review helpful
I've read similar advice in other books. But what is great about his one, to me, was that Allen analyses WHY we should do what he recommends. He has analysed how the human mind thinks, and what it will respond to. He sets forth a lot of "simple" things, that once they are pointed out to you you think, "of course!" but that you never figured out on your own. It's a refreshing and optimistic and hopeful and helpful book.
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