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32 of 50 people found the following review helpful:
basic and needs to mature, 29 Jun 2006
this book is a great foundation of the basics of being organised for someone new to working life or a manager of a shoe shop or similar but personally i found the book didnt teach you anything more than how to write lists and to get everything out of your head and on to "paper" which lets face it, the majority of people looking to buy books of this nature are likely to be in higher pressured roles and will already know the basics. I didnt learn anything new from this book and found that it to tries to be grown up but its not really in touch with the reality of the pressure and awkward situations most working professionals face on a day to day basis. If you are completely ignorant or new to this type of list based methodical thinking however then you should find it will help you
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18 of 37 people found the following review helpful:
The Emperor's new clothes of time management, 2 Feb 2008
This book should be sub-titled "How to Make the Simple Complicated". After I read it I had to lie down in a dark room to recover from the mind-numbing headache it gave me.
This really is the emperor's new clothes of time management. Very quickly you begin to realize that this is total nonsense passed off as cutting edge wisdom. After setting out its grand life changing aims,it quickly settles down into tired, jaded and well worn formula.
The writing style is plain awful, it's hard to read and is totally confusing. Its style is mechanical and lacks any flow, forcing you to plod through a meandering rats maze. Not surprisingly you wind up at a dead end, re-reading chapters and still scratching your head.
If you have the energy to labour through this cure for insomnia, you will eventually come across a Wizard of Oz type moment when you pull back the curtain and realize this guy has nothing of substance to say.
It's unintentionally funny (if you're a fan of black comedy) talking about "emptying buckets" when in fact the book should be flushed down the drain. At this stage anger sets in when you realize time management has turned into time wasted.
The author clumsily mentions invented high-powered situations where he's used these " proven techniques " successfully. A child would see through these tissue thin stories. They are cobbled together in a cheesy attempt to add weight to this book.
If your life is already complicated this will tip you over the edge, turning your thought process into mangled spaghetti. I questioned if David Allen believed in the rubbish he has written, one positive in Allen's book is the accidental creation of a new english dialect which I affectionately called Garble.
Think about a disappointing Christmas morning where you tore off the fancy wrapping paper only to discover an empty box, there is no happy ending here. Instead of a book an A5 sheet of paper could have housed its "key ideas" and still left plenty of space.
After finishing the book I came up on my own personal meaning for GTD ( Garbage Trash Dire ) Trust me, be nice to yourself, your time is better spent reading anything except this nonsense!
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1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
getting things done, 23 Jul 2009
I appreciate the general thrust of the book's argument, breaking tasks and targets into smaller and dicrete elements to be dealt with in different ways.
But wading through the book is a brain mangler. By the time I had read half the book, I had lost or forgottent the relevance of the first half of the book.
Needless to say I then realised that I wasn't going to be helped by this one.
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3 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
may be good for you but definitely bad for me, 7 Aug 2008
I've read this book three or four times around of May-June 2004, and then tried to implement into my work - without any significant success. Most probably this is book for inbox slaves and formal process worshippers, otherwise it might be not for your job-without-formal-description. In worst case trying to follow it took me actually spending _more_ time on things I used to do quicker. Most probably it might be valuable for you, but not for me, and I don't want to take inbox slavery job.
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