Ready for Anything: 52 Productivity Principles for Work and Life 
asked by speaker on November 22, 2006 11:11 PM
In Getting Things Done, David Allen offered a breakthrough system to enhance productivity-at work and in daily life. Now "the guru of personal productivity" (Fast Company) asks readers what is holding them back and shows how they can be ready for anything-with a clear mind, a clear deck, and clear intentions.
Based on Allen's highly popular e-newsletter, Principles of Productivity, Ready for Anything offers fifty-two principles to clear your head, focus productively, create structures that work, and get in motion, including:
* stability on one level opens creativity on another
* you can't win a game you haven't defined
* the value of a future goal is the present change it fosters
With wit, motivational insights, and inspiring quotes, Ready for Anything shows readers how to make things happen with less effort, stress, and ineffectiveness, and lots more energy, creativity, and clarity. This is the perfect book for anyone wanting to work and live at their very best.
Based on Allen's highly popular e-newsletter, Principles of Productivity, Ready for Anything offers fifty-two principles to clear your head, focus productively, create structures that work, and get in motion, including:
* stability on one level opens creativity on another
* you can't win a game you haven't defined
* the value of a future goal is the present change it fosters
With wit, motivational insights, and inspiring quotes, Ready for Anything shows readers how to make things happen with less effort, stress, and ineffectiveness, and lots more energy, creativity, and clarity. This is the perfect book for anyone wanting to work and live at their very best.
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I guess this is is more for people who have already implemented the Getting Things Done in their lives. A decent read.
reviewed by bigdv on November 24, 2006 1:47 AM
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This book is very helpfull and adress a sense of time management and action that we need to accomplish in order to do successfull things in business and in life
reviewed by bulldogs on November 28, 2006 6:50 AM
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A sophisticated and brief set of fifty-two disciplinary observations and requirements for better control and less confusion. A good book - but not as thorough and enlightening as I had hoped for -but then, I hoped for a lot.
reviewed by speed5599 on November 28, 2006 10:22 PM
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I was disappointed with this book because it isn't significantly different from the author's book, Getting Things Done.
reviewed by runaway on November 29, 2006 2:14 AM
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I never thought I could get too much of David Allen, the productivity guru whose `Getting Things Done' system has transformed my work and life habits. But this book borders on too much of a good thing.
At least, that is, if you sit down and read right through it. The trick is to ration.
While I don't know whether the number 52 was chosen to give us a two-to-three page sampling of Allen's writing on a weekly basis, the truth is it works well that way. I'm integrating it into Allen's famous `weekly review', the bone marrow of a productive work-life organism.
In such small doses, it's good stuff. Allen and his staff have culled these reflections from his writings over the year. The power of `GTD' lies in its simplicity, so you won't find vastly divergent essays on politics, literature, and the price of gasoline in Idaho.
What you will find is a simple and tenacious focus on a system that allows you to clear your mind and focus on the one thing you're choosing to do right now.
On balance and in moderation, that's a good thing.
At least, that is, if you sit down and read right through it. The trick is to ration.
While I don't know whether the number 52 was chosen to give us a two-to-three page sampling of Allen's writing on a weekly basis, the truth is it works well that way. I'm integrating it into Allen's famous `weekly review', the bone marrow of a productive work-life organism.
In such small doses, it's good stuff. Allen and his staff have culled these reflections from his writings over the year. The power of `GTD' lies in its simplicity, so you won't find vastly divergent essays on politics, literature, and the price of gasoline in Idaho.
What you will find is a simple and tenacious focus on a system that allows you to clear your mind and focus on the one thing you're choosing to do right now.
On balance and in moderation, that's a good thing.
reviewed by skywalker on November 29, 2006 12:40 PM