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/.
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David Allen Company and MeadWestvaco Partner on New Line of GTD Products
The David Allen Company and MeadWestvaco Corporation (NYSE: MWV) have just announced their partnership to produce a full array of products based upon the productivity strategies outlined in David Allen’s best-selling book, “Getting Things Done”. Well known for their incredibly successful “At A Glance” products, Meade is introducing a number of items including note-taker wallets, …
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How Santa Gets Things Done in Time for Christmas
Have you ever wondered how Santa maintains perspective and control over everything that has his attention? I mean, with all of the letters, a toy shop to supervise, flight plans and air travel restrictions to deal with … and the weather! It’s enough to drive any normal person crazy. I always thought Santa must have …
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Getting Things Done On the Go with Lotus Notes – Will Traveler Make it Easy?
Will Traveler make getting things done with Notes easy? I have a long-standing interest in devices and applications that increase mobile knowledge worker productivity, particularly those that support the GTD methodology and can sync with Lotus Notes. The problem is that most of the devices that I have used to date fail in one or …
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Music for Getting Things Done
By Scott Allen – Community Contributor Left to my own devices, I have a terrible time maintaining focus when I need to write, do web design, work on spreadsheets or databases, or do intensive analytical reading. While I refuse to go to the doctor to get a formal diagnosis, I pretty much know that I …
Announcing the Winners of the GTDTimes/David Allen Company Executive Workflow Coaching Contest!
Wow! What an amazing turnout! We’ve finally selected our winner and the runners up in the GTDtimes / David Allen Company Executive Workflow Contest. You guys certainly didn’t make it easy. We were overwhelmed at the number of high quality entries from the GTDtimes readership. . There are so many people with compelling reasons as …
Don't Miss Out: Free Executive WorkFlow Coaching Contest Entry Deadline Ends Soon!
In case you live under a rock and only check your email and RSS feeds every other week you might not have heard about the contest we’re having for a free day of Executive Workflow Coaching courtesy of the David Allen Company and GTDtimes. This is your chance to have one of David’s personally certified …
GTD Times Mentioned by James Fallows in the Atlantic
Friend of David Allen and the David Allen Company, James Fallows was kind enough to give GTDtimes a very favorable mention in the Atlantic, one of the most lauded and influential publications in the country. James, that’s high praise and a very generous compliment especially coming from a nationally recognized journalist like yourself.
Vakil Housing makes GTD history in India
On the 30th of August 2008, 2 unassuming looking Indians made GTD history in Bangalore by giving the first GTD Presentation in India by Indians! It all started out when Leslie Harradine (a David Allen Company Trainer) flew down to Bangalore, India to train our people in Vakil Housing in GTD. We realized to sustain …
IBM Offers Lotus Notes For Apple's IPhone
Editor’s Note: This just in from DOW Jones… IBM Offers Lotus Notes For Apple’s iPhone Sep 30, 2008 00:01:00 (ET) SAN FRANCISCO (Dow Jones)–International Business Machines Corp. (IBM) said Tuesday it was making its Lotus Notes tools, including email and calendar applications, available for Apple Inc.’s (AAPL) iPhone. Armonk, N.Y.-based IBM said that the latest …
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There's a Time and Place for Long Prose – Email Is Rarely It
By Scott Allen – Community Contributor I love reading good prose, particularly a good narrative. Sometimes prose is called for in an email — to tell a story, explain your reasoning, provide some depth regarding your feelings on a topic, etc. Some people prefer the phone or face-to-face for those things, but in many situations, …
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The Irresistible Allure of Getting Anything Done
By Scott Allen – Community Contributor Ahh…completion! You know the feeling. Inbox…empty. Weekly review…done. Deliverable…delivered. Project…complete. That slight rush as you say, “It is finished.” This can be a great additional motivation in getting things done. One little completion “fix” after another and pretty soon you’re on a major productivity roll. But there can be …
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Now You Can Try GTD Connect for FREE!
GTD Connect is David’s members-only website. Ordinarily there’s a monthly fee of $40 (based on an annual subscription) but right now – if you act quickly – you can get a free fourteen day trial of GTD Connect with just a few clicks of your mouse. Even if you read GTDtimes religiously, you’ve never seen …
Sad News This Morning… Randy Pausch has Passed Away.
Randy Pausch was a computer science professor at Carnegie-Mellon University whose “last lecture” brought him to international prominence for his courage, his compassion and his humanity while facing a terminal illness. If you haven’t seen his now famous lecture it is well worth the hour you’ll invest. There are lessons there for all of us …
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GTDTimes – top blog honors
This morning I had a nice surprise in my email inbox when Evan Carmichael of EvanCarmichael.com wrote us a note to let us know that he’d just authored a post called the Top Ten GTDtimes Posts of 2008. He runs through what he felt where the most informative and useful posts written for GTDtimes since …
Sometimes Getting Things Done Means Doing Nothing…
Okay, if that headline leaves you scratching your head you are probably not alone. After all, doing nothing hardly seems like a way to get anything done, however, it is my aim to convince you that at times, doing nothing is the most appropriate next action. As you know if you’ve been reading GTDtimes with …
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Eric Mack to Launch eProductivity: your chance to get a preview in this post
One of our most prolific contributors, Eric Mack, has been hard at work developing a tool that has been called the ultimate GTD application for Lotus Notes. Now, after months of beta testing with select companies, Eric is about ready to release the application to the public. However, before he did this he wanted to …
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The GTD Breakfast Club
With the recent posts on GTD for Kids and GTD for Families, I thought I would share this one… Last year, my daughter, Wendy, recently made a post in the GTD Connect forum about how our family is learning about GTD at the breakfast table. [If you’re a GTD Connect subscriber, you can read the …
A procrastination test
“I love deadlines…especially the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by” -Douglas Adams From time to time virtually all of us put off until tomorrow what we should have done yesterday. Most of the time we do this knowing full well that we ought to get busy getting whatever needs doing, done. What’s …
O'Reilly Launches iPhone Hacks, your iPhone will never be the same!
If you’ve got an iPhone check out O’Reilly’s new publication: iPhone Hacks…
