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A. Follow on Lines
B. Whisper: Keep It to Yourself
C. Word of Experience: Stick to It
D. Code of Success: Freed and Targeted
E. Efficient Work to Promote Efficient Workers
F. Recipe: Simplicity Means Everything
G. Efficiency Comes from Orders
Every decade has its defining self-help business book. In the 1940s it was How to Win Friends and Influence People , in the 1990s The Seven Habits of Highly Successful People . These days we"re worried about something much simpler: Getting Things Done.
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That"s the title of productivity guru David Allen"s pithy 2001 treatise on working efficiently, which continues to resonate in this decade"s overworked, overwhelmed, overteched workplace. Allen hasn"t just sold 500,000 copies of his book. He has preached his message of focus, discipline and creativity everywhere from Sony and Novartis to the World Bank and the U. S. Air Force. He counsels swamped chief executives on coping with information overload. He ministers to some clients with an intensive, two-day, $ 6,000 private session in which he and his team organize their lives from top to bottom. And he has won the devotions of acolytes who document on their blogs how his Getting Things Done (GTO) program has changed their lives.
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Allen admits that much of his basic recipe is common sense. Free your mind, and productivity will follow. Break down projects and goals into discrete, definable actions, and you won"t be bothered by all those loose threads pulling at your attention. First make decisions about what needs to get done, and then fashion a plan for doing it. If you"ve catalogued everything you have to do and all your long-term goals, Allen says, you"re less likely to wake up at 3 a. m. worrying about whether you"ve forgotten something. "Most people haven"t realized how out of control their head is when they get 300 e-mails a day and each of them has potential meaning."
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When e-mails, phones calls and to-do lists are truly under control, Allen says, the real change begins. You will finally be able to use your mind to dream up great ideas and enjoy your life rather than just occupy it with all the things you"ve got to do. Allen himself, despite running a $ 5.5 million consulting practice, traveling 200 days a year and juggling a business that"s growing 40% every years, finds time to joyride in his Mini Cooper and sculpt bonsai plants. Oh, and he had earned his black belt in karate.
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Few companies have embraced Allen"s philosophy as thoroughly as General Mills, the Minnesota-based maker of Cheerios and Lucky Charms. Allen began at the company with a couple of private coaching sessions for top executives, who raved about his guidance. Allen and his staff now hold six to eight two-day training sessions a year. The company has already put more than 2,000 employees through GTD training and plans to expand it company wide. "Fads come and go," says Kevin Wilde, General Mills" CEO, "but this continues to work."
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The most fevered followers of Allen"s organizational methodology gather online. Websites like gtdindex, marvelz, corn parse Allen"s every utterance. The 43 Folders blog ran an eight-part pod-cast interview with him. GTD enthusiasts like Frank Meeuwsen, on whatsthenextaction, com gather best practice techniques for implementing the book"s ideas. More than 60 software tools have been built specifically to supplement Allen"s system.