Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-free Productivity |
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List Price: $22.70
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Manufacturer: Piatkus Books
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PRODUCT DESCRIPTION
Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 158
EAN: 9780749922641
ISBN: 0749922648
Label: Piatkus Books
Manufacturer: Piatkus Books
Number Of Pages: 282
Publication Date: 2002-01-24
Publisher: Piatkus Books
Studio: Piatkus Books
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Is your workload overwhelming? Does it just keep mounting up while your stress levels reach fever pitch? In Getting Things Done David Allen teaches you how to keep a clear head, relax and organise your thoughts while implementing the methods that he has introduced at organisations like Microsoft, Lockheed and the US Department of Justice: Learn the 'do it, delegate it, defer it, drop it' principle to empty your in-tray. Handle e-mail, paperwork and unexpected demands in a system of self-management. Plan and progress projects. Reasses goals and stay focused. Apply the two minute rule when deciding what to do now and what to defer. Overcome feelings of anxiety and being overwhelmed. With clear and specific methods and advice, David Allen's tried and trusted formula for business efficiency could transform the way you operate and your experience of work.
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Summary: Getting Bored. Hopefully I can get things done in my sleep
Comment: The hardest thing is finishing this book. I will not be able to get this thing done!
Are people getting paid to write 5 star reviews?
As we speak, I am listening to the audiobook of "Getting Things Done" and falling asleep. To stay awake, I am writing this review. There must be an art to getting through this book.
To save some time and money, go to Office Depot and buy organization supplies and skip this audiobook
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Summary: Great concepts, a bit wordy
Comment: The book has some very practical advice on organizing tasks and small projects. It adheres to some principals that seem to work well, especially in reducing stress caused from not being organized.
I found the book a bit wordy in spots and slightly difficult to understand on a first read. I had to read several sections twice to get the full meaning.
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Summary: Great book!
Comment: This has been a great resource to get organized both at home and at work. This is definitely the best book I have read on this subject and would recommend it to anyone who is "stuck" and overwhelmed wtih paperwork and piles. With 4 kids and a small business it has worked wonders for me.
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Summary: Masterful Workflow Advice for the Busy Professional
Comment: I was first exposed to 'Getting Things Done' (GTD) a few years back in an article about prolific modern knowledge workers and how they thrive amidst a frantic, constant information flow. The very best manage thousands of demands for attention each and every week (emails, voicemails, meetings, etc.) while completing a steady stream of projects both large and small. David Allen's 'Getting Things Done' presents a framework for doing just that while also achieving a sense of personal calm and heightened creativity. I've returned to this book many times over the years to tweak my own GTD implementation and David Allen never fails to inspire. Highly recommended.
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Summary: How To Eat Many Elephants 101
Comment: This book teaches you how to free your mind of clutter, so that you can operate at your absolute best, to get many things done: from climbing the corporate ladder to running a business, to efficiently managing a family. It is a revolutionary approach which helps you clarify what needs to be done about anything, at any moment. This book shows you that no matter what needs to be accomplished, you get it done by breaking it down to one, two, three, and four etc. actionable tasks (the very next thing or things you will do) to get it done.
This is how I would sum the book up... How do you eat many elephants? You put them in a big box (labeling each elephant A-Z:), then eat it One Next bite at a time.
Why the book you say if the concept can be summed so simply...
The book will show...
How you have always been attempting to eat elephants in some fashion,
how you inefficiently think about the elephants (7 Habits of...),
how you can efficiently think about the elephants,
how to COLLECT and put many elephants in the box,
how to PROCESS the elephants (to eat or not to eat, that is the question),
ORGANIZE the elephants (legs with legs, trunks with trunks etc.),
How to REVIEW your eating progress (ok I've eaten lots of legs and trunks [which elephants are completely eaten], how many more - O no here comes another 50 elephants I've just agreed to eat, time to COLLECT, PROCESS, ORGANIZE, then REVIEW all over again. The saga continues...)
Think I've said too much and now you think you don't need the book guess again! The book is chalk full of ins and outs to effectively set this set of skills to work for you. The Getting Things Done method is simple enough that my ten year old son follows it, yet robust enough that CEOs run enterprises with the same concept.
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