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Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-free Productivity Paperback – 17 Mar. 2015

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'The Bible of business and personal productivity' Lifehack

'A completely revised and updated edition of the blockbuster bestseller from 'the personal productivity guru' Fast Company

Since it was first published almost fifteen years ago, David Allen's Getting Things Done has become one of the most influential business books of its era, and the ultimate book on personal organization. 'GTD' is now shorthand for an entire way of approaching professional and personal tasks, and has spawned an entire culture of websites, organizational tools, seminars, and offshoots.

Allen has rewritten the book from start to finish, tweaking his classic text with important perspectives on the new workplace, and adding material that will make the book fresh and relevant for years to come. This new edition of Getting Things Done will be welcomed not only by its hundreds of thousands of existing fans but also by a whole new generation eager to adopt its proven principles.

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Paperback: 352 pages
Publisher: Piatkus (17 Mar. 2015)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 9780349408941
ISBN-13: 978-0349408941
ASIN: 0349408947
Product Dimensions: 15.4 x 2.7 x 23.3 cm
Customer reviews: 1,530 customer ratings
Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,009 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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I am a devout, card-carrying GTD true believer . . . The entire approach has boosted not only my productivity but also my wider well-being. But what amazes me just as much is how deeply GTD has taken hold around the world . . . This is a genuine movement -- Daniel H. Pink, bestselling author of Drive

Getting Things Done describes an incredibly practical process that can help busy people regain control of their lives. It can help you be more successful. Even more important, it can help you have a happier life! -- Marshall Goldsmith, coeditor, The Leader of the Future and Coaching for Leadership

Getting Things Done offers help building the new mental skills needed in an age of multitasking and overload -- Sue Shellenbarger, The Wall Street Journal

David Allen's productivity principles are rooted in big ideas . . . but they're also eminently practical -- Keith H. Hammonds, Fast Company

The bible of business and personal productivity, Lifehack

I recently attended David's seminar on getting organised, and after seeing him in action I have hope . . . David Allen's seminar was an eye-opener -- Stewart Alsop, Fortune

Allen drops down from high-level philosophising to the fine details of time management. Take a minute to check this one out -- Mark Henricks, Entrepreneur

David Allen brings new clarity to the power of purpose, the essential nature of relaxation, and deceptively simple guidelines for getting things done. He employs extensive experience, personal stories, and his own recipe for simplicity, speed and fun -- Frances Hesselbein, Chairman, Board of Governors, Leader to Leader Institute

Anyone who reads this book can apply this knowledge and these skills in their lives for immediate results -- Stephen P. Magee, Chaired Professor of Business and Economics, University of Texas at Austin

A true skeptic of most management fixes, I have to say David's program is a winner! -- Joline Godfrey, CEO, Independent Means, Inc., and author of Our Wildest Dreams

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A thoroughly revised edition of the bestseller Getting Things Done, with tips and tools relevant to today's ever-changing work environment

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Larry

Out of date

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 2 September 2019

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This book was supposedly a brand new edition for 2015 but it reads like it was written for a previous century. There is so much emphasis on hard copy documentation, memos and letters that it just doesn’t fit with how work or life is conducted in the modern world. For example you are strongly advised to buy a label printer so you can stick labels on all your files. Our files are in the cloud these days. Where are we suppose to stick these printed labels?

There are some good ideas here but it’s hard to relate them to modernity. Its like reading Jane Austin for tips on using Tinder.

If you are a historian researching productivity methods of bygone eras then this would be a good purchase for you.

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Louise

Yes, but no.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 4 November 2015

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I desperately wanted to love this book. I had heard about GTD from several places, and I thought "Yep, this is ME". I think the principles behind this book are so valuable and could help a lot more people if it weren't surrounded in such WAFFLE! Seriously, this is the sort of stuff I lap up usually, but I couldn't get into this. Like others have said, it needs paring down a lot for it to be something the masses could get on board with. Shame really.

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MotherOfAbundance

Great Book

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 10 December 2018

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Highly recommended for busy people who want to flow whilst working instead of feeling overwhelmed.

The book is heavy going though, I bought it in paperback, Kindle and upgraded the Kindle to audio too so that I could read it quickly.

An email workflow infographic would have been handy, I'm likely to create these for myself so that I can embed the theories quicker.

I also wanted to annotate both the Kindle and paper versions so that they'd make better reference materials.

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Mark B.

Why bother?

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 30 August 2018

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Some very basic ideas spread out over 300 repetitive pages. For example, did you know that you might need an ‘in-tray’? Wow! For very good reason the conclusion is just two pages! Really, don’t bother, unless you have absolutely no clue whatsoever about how to organise yourself and your desk.

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Jim H

It works!!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 3 June 2017

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Incredibly effective book & I'm already recommending it to others. Even the simple practice of using capture & organise is saving me hours per week. If your head is overwhelmed with ideas & tasks and your week is a constant battle with time management then this is for you!

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str38

Fantastic!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 15 August 2018

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First I listened to it twice or more three times Audible - and then bought the book. This works - espessial if you combine it with the organizing system of Mappei. I am reprganizing my routines and I already see improvements.

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Sophiebeth

Good over all

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 16 February 2017

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This book has been a hard slog to finish as lots of the examples don't fit with my job. I felt the book could have been half the size if it didn't have unnecessary quotes and examples. I'm enjoying getting more things done.

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Blue Fenix

Good book, I'd recommend the audiobook

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 8 November 2019

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Can't say much else... it is a good book, if you follow what it says... otherwise it's another piece of self help material to sit on your shelf whilst you pity yourself...Not that I'd know.

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john

This picture is his model of how to get things done.

Reviewed in the United States on 10 November 2018

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The book is him talking about this for 267 pages. Look at the graph. You don't need 267 pages to understand how to use this.

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Iris

Brutal schlecht strukturiert, wenn man es umsetzen möchte

Reviewed in Germany on 2 March 2019

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Nach einem sehr überzeugenden Lob habe ich mir dieses Buch gekauft und mich noch über den günstigen Preis der kindle-Edition gefreut. Die Woche über habe ich fleißig gelesen und mich bereit gemacht, dieses Wochenende zu opfern, um das GTD-System aufzusetzen.

Ich sage es mal freundlich: der Weg ist holprig. Dummerweise habe ich das gemerkt, *nachdem* ich brav alles auf meinem sonst so geodneten Schreibtisch aufgetürmt habe. Denn wie es danach weitergeht, das ist mir nach wie vor eher ein Rätsel. Selbstverständlich hatte ich schon vorgelesen, aber so ganz verstanden hatte ich es nicht und dachte "Aach, ok, wahrscheinlich ist das eine dieser Sachen, die man versteht, wenn man sie umsetzt." Falsch gedacht.
Es ist eine dieser Sachen, die ein Mysterium bleiben, bei denen man sich durchwurschtelt und die einen dazu treiben, Rezensionen zu scheiben, um andere vor der Ungewissheit zu bewahren, ob sie am Montag wieder einen arbeitstauglichen Schreibtisch haben werden.

Also, was ist das Problem?
Die Instruktionen sind ungenau und vollkommen unstrukturiert, ständig durchsetzt von Anmerkungen zu Details. Das wäre im Prinzip aber nicht schlimm, wenn es ein ordentliches Inhaltsverzeichnis gäbe, das einem bei diesem Wirrwarr Orientierung bietet. Gibt es aber nicht. Und mir gibt es kein gutes Gefühl, einem derartig verwirrten Organisationsexperten zu vertrauen, fast egal, ob dieses Buch aus Unfähigkeit oder Berechnung so gestaltet wurde (soweit ich verstehe, kann man auf der Website des Autors brauchbare Anleitungen erwerben. Wie schön!).

Meine Lösung?
Durchwurschteln und ich habe tatsächlich einen guten Teil dieses Tages damit verbracht, zwei verwirrte GTD-Kapitel zu lesen und mir Notizen zu machen, inklusive Seitenzahlen, weil man sonst nichts nachschlagen kann.
(Dieses Buch hat nie einen Lektor gesehen oder er/sie wurde sediert)
Ob ich das System gerade richtig aufsetze oder nicht, kann ich absolut nicht sagen. Die Listen duplizieren und multiplizieren sich und Klarheit ist nicht in Sicht. Was immer dabei herauskomt, ich werde nie wissen, wie viel davon ich dem Autor verdanke und wie viel mir selbst. Nicht so schön. Aber deshalb gebe ich zwei Sterne anstelle nur eines Sterns, für den Fall, dass der Inhalt sich nach diesem Krampf als irgendwie teilweise doch tauglich erweist.

Aber von diesem Fraggle lese ich ganz sicher kein weiteres Buch!

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Johannes

This book changed my life

Reviewed in Germany on 24 October 2016

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I bought this book in February 2016, because I was desperate - I spent 1/3 of my day just trying not to forget things, track others and figure out what is the important thing to do. Now, in November 2016, I am still using it and cannot image to handle my busy work- and personal life without.
David Allen describes a system rather than a ready-made tool. But if the reader himself adopts the system and sets up the real-life tools in the way he feels comfortable with, something life-changing happens.
I thought myself pretty organized even before adopting GTD, but Allen really thought it through and comes up with a plan to deal with every aspectof our daily tasks and promises.
Main features are:
- creating time and space to do focused thinking before action
- preparing actions in context-sensitive to do lists, ready-made to be executed without having to re-think
- the reassuring trust that everything worth to be done is in the system - and does not need to revolve constantly around our brain

If you are unsure if the book is up to the promise of "stress free productivity": It does not work miracles, but if you use GTD consistently, the results will be amazing.

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Stephanie Ross Alouche

It was great until.....

Reviewed in Canada on 21 May 2019

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Was so excited to read this....the first 10 pages. Then I put it down to get some chores done. Winston decided I'd bought him a new toy. He has no shame.

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Víctor

Libro de Cabecera

Reviewed in Spain on 27 March 2018

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Cuando compré el libro, sabía que tenía un problema con mi sistema de organización. Así que me puse a leerlo inmediatamente. Lo cierto es que tenía algunas dudas, porque había leído otros del mismo tema que no pasaban de expresar lo obvio y de sugerir sistemas que le funcionaban al autor, pero no se adaptaban a mí. Pero este libro sí es bueno.

No es como los anteriores, una simple guía de recetas. Sino que desmenuza los fundamentos básicos e, incluso, la psicología que implica un buen sistema de organización. Además, explica en cada paso el motivo de cada proceso o cada sugerencia. Lo que me encanta del libro es que no ofrece un sistema dise;ado y definido, sino que por medio de ejemplos va hasta el principio general que quiere explicar y eso permite que uno pueda adaptar o modificar las ideas a su propia forma de trabajar y a su propio tiempo. Quizá esto haga que algunas partes se hagan más largas, pero es muy recomendable.

Lo que más me impactó fue la parte psicológica. En el libro explica uno de los principales problemas que tiene la gente que fue buscando su ayuda y es dejar tareas o cosas en una lista de pendientes, sin pararse a determinar las acciones que han de realizar para finalizar esa tarea. Como ejemplo: la tarea "solucionar problema con factura luz" debería dividirse en realidad en varias, siendo la primera, probablemente "Localizar número de atención al cliente de la compania", luego llamar (para algunas personas, eso requiere planificar la llamada en su agenda diaria), y de ahí, depende de la respuesta, se seguirán más pasos o no. Lo que comenta es que al compactar tantas tareas en un solo item, en realidad estamos obligandonos a dedicar mucho espacio mental a esa tarea y salvo que tengamos tiempo de sobra, probablemente se nos atasque un buen tiempo en la lista. De la otra forma, un dia damos por cerrada la tarea de localizar el numero. Otro, cerramos el de la llamada, otro el de enviar los datos que nos hayan pedido... Y el efecto psicologico de sentir que vamos resolviendo el problema es brutal. Porque ya no es el mismo item desde hace dias, sino que es el mismo asunto, pero con acciones mas concretas y simples.

El libro esta lleno de ideas de este tipo que, una vez leídas, suenan muy obvias, pero es algo en que mucha gente (al menos yo) fallaba constantemente. Un libro imprescindible para cualquier persona con poco tiempo o que tiene problemas para gestionar su tiempo de forma eficiente.

Como nota final diré que aún no he terminado el libro (llevo más de la mitad) porque es un proceso, no solo una lectura. Sin embargo, ya puedo confirmar que he mejorado la gestión de mis obligaciones y del tiempo en general, así que no puedo más que recomendarlo.

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