Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity
 

Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity

by David Allen

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... (read more)

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Just do it: identify a Next Action in any project. And do it. Clear your inbox, clear your to-do list, clear your cluttered workday. Without specifying one single way, Allen gives a framework in which to implement a productive workflow and it boils down to: every project has a next action, identify it, schedule it/delegate it/do it. Works wonders for cluttered people like me. It also led me to various productivity websites and freeware available on the web. The book has inspired a subculture...

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  • pramod m

    pramod m said:

    good

    posted Saturday, March 29 2008
  • Bryan M

    bryan m said:

    I think I'm overdue to put this book on my Amazon wishlist. Seems everybody has been reading it. Oddly enough, I use software inspired by David Allen and his book but have never read the book itself.

    posted Tuesday, November 27 2007
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