Short description
Is your workload overwhelming? This volume aims to teach you how to keep a clear head, relax and organize your thoughts while implementing the organizational methods taught in the book, which include planning and progressing projects, reassessing goals, and overcoming feelings of anxiety.
Long description
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.
Review
Productivity guru David Allen shows how to organise a busy life, overcome bad habits and still be able to function calmly and effectively WATERSTONES BOOKS QUARTERLY 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 As whole-life-organising 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-fo That's where the processing and prioritising 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 common sense 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 belaboured, self-improver aimed at everyone from CEOs to football mums (who, we all know, are more organised than most CEOs to start with). Timothy Murphy , AMAZON.CO.UK REVIEW
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David Allen has had more than twenty years' experience as a management consultant, executive coach, and educator and is the president of David Allen & Co. He has been called one of the world's most influential thinkers on productivity.
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Getting things done?
Reviewed by Unknown from Durban on 29 March 2007
573 of 1179 people found the following review helpful:
Well the first few chapters are really good. But to be honest I have not actually gotten around to finishing it..... A bit ironic... but even the first two chapters have helped me get more organized, and i am less stressed because I feel that I am a bit more in control of things. Even better. I dont lay awake at night thinking of all the things i should have done at work or the things I have to do the next day.
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