A Community Contribution by Arif & Ali Vakil I love GTD Connect. And within Connect, my favorite bit is the David Allen Teleseminars. In my early GTD days I would gets heaps of coaching and guidance from every single minute of the teleseminar. However recently it’s more of the stray comment that David mentions which …
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Robert Scoble, the well known blogger and ultra popular twitterer (Is that a word? This new lexicon is getting weirderer all the time ;-) just had a full day of Workflow Coaching from David Allen Company. Robert was very impressed and had nothing but good things to say about the experience and the fact that …
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According to executives at the David Allen Company, MP3’s of some of David’s most popular recordings are one of the most oft-requested items but unavailable items in the GTD Stuff line-up. No more! iamplify a company with the world’s largest selection of downloadable audios and videos has partnered with the David Allen Company to put …
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According to the results of a recent survey that appeared in USA Today on Dec. 29, 2008, productivity has become one of the top challenges for executives. The survey was conducted by Robert Half Management Resources. If the survey is to be believed — and there’s no reason why it should not — then there’s …
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Editor’s Note: Here’s a post from new contributor Erik Hanberg. When he wrote me about this and said that he was going on his honeymoon with no more advance planning then the tickets home I thought to myself poor man – he’s going to come home a divorcee… Apparently he chose more wisely that I …
Personal productivity is low. Room for productivity improvement in the average employee is high; on a scale of 1-10 the average score is 4.8. Use of David Allen’s Getting Things Done (GTD) methodology shows a mimimum of 20% improvement in personal productivity and effectiveness. This was shown in a recent Productivity Scan research conducted by Life Architect http://www.life-architect.eu/ and set up in collaboration with the David Allen Company http://www.davidco.com/.
If you’re attending LotusSphere be sure to attend the two sessions being presented by David Allen and Eric Mack. The first session, Best Practices Session, BP304: “IBM Lotus Notes and Me: Maximizing Personal Productivity with Lotus Notes” will take place at 5:00 PM on January 19, at the Swan Hotel (SW 7-10). Due to the …
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From his recent book signing, here’s David and friends in Seattle
Michael Sampson, the collaboration expert and author of Seamless Teamwork: Using Microsoft® SharePoint® Technologies to Collaborate, Innovate, and Drive Business in New Ways (BP-Other)(which will be reviewed here soon) spent some time talking with David recently about Lotus Notes. Mainly they discussed how he and the company use Lotus Notes and how Notes supports GTD. …
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Dave Patrick from the David Allen Company just forwarded this link to my attention. Seems that they recorded David’s book signing interview over in Philadelphia the other night. Here’s the link so you can check it out for yourself.
A Community Contribution by Venkatesh Rao If you are into GTD, your desk/main workspace is probably a constant source of intellectual stimulation for you. Do you think your workspace manifests and models the future of work? If so, take a quick picture and tweet it to @cloudworker on twitter (run by the folks at cloudworker.org). …
If reading his book is not enough and you’d like to meet David in person and even get your copy of one of his books personally autographed, your opportunity is at hand. David’s press tour for his new book starts tomorrow, January 6th in Pasadena, California. Here’s the current schedule of dates, times and locations …
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TheSimpleDollar is a website devoted to straightforward talk about personal finance. The author, Trent Hamm, is clearly a David Allen fan (he considers David’s first book, “Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity” to be one of the ten books that changed his life) and he states up front that he is very excited …
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You’ve heard about it, you’ve read preliminary reviews for it, and now, finally, after months of waiting, you can own it yourself:David Allen’s new book, “Making it All Work; Winning at the Game of Work and the Business of Life”, has gone on sale at book stores everywhere. You can get your copy by clicking …
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Mark Walsh writes the Integration Journal, and authored a great post on GTD last week. This post might be especially interesting for you if you know that you need to change something to get a handle on your commitments, but aren’t certain if GTD is the solution for you. To learn more about GTD services and offerings in …
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Community Contribution by Erik Hanberg I lurched into a Getting Things Done system over a couple fits and starts. First it started with two friends who had read the book and were talking it up. I was uninterested in what I thought was a “self-help” book. But that soon changed when I discovered an Atlantic …
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For folks that are curious about David Allen’s new book,Making It All Work: Winning at the Game of Work and Business of Life, I’ve got a treat for you. bNet has just put up a full chapter excerpt that you can check out right now.
A Community Contribution by Eric Hanberg When I started implementing GTD this summer, I thought the main benefit was going to be felt in my work life first and foremost, as GTD would help me juggle my pieced-together living as a freelance writer and web developer. GTD has certainly helped me professionally, but it has …
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Both David and longtime friend to the David Allen Company and developer of eProductivity for Lotus Notes, Eric Mack will be presenting at Lotusphere. Their session, called IBM Lotus Notes and Me: Maximizing Personal Productivity with Lotus Notes is on Monday, January 9th at 5PM with a booksigning at 6:30PM. If you’re attending Lotusphere you …
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On December 13th the David Allen Company is presenting a special FREE event, Q&A, and book signing with David Allen at UCLA. You’re invited! Registration begins at 9AM and the event runs from 9:30 to 12:30. Here is your chance to get a preview of David’s new “Making It All Work” seminar, the next generation …
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