Getting Things Done : the art of stress free productivity (Record no. 226418)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9780349410159
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Language code of text/sound track or separate title English
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Edition number 23
Classification number 658.4
Item number ALLG
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Personal name David Allen
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Title Getting Things Done : the art of stress free productivity
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Date of publication, distribution, etc. 2015
Place of publication, distribution, etc. London
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. Little Brown Book Group
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Extent 317 p.
Other physical details PB
Dimensions 19x13 cm.
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Price type code 6810
Price amount ₹520.00
Currency code ₹
Unit of pricing ₹650.00
Price note 20%
Price effective from 23-12-2022
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Summary, etc. Review:<br/>With first-chapter allusions to martial arts, "flow," "mind like water," and other concepts borrowed from the East (and usually mangled), you'd almost think this self-helper from David Allen should have been called Zen and the Art of Schedule Maintenance.Not quite. Yes, Getting Things Done offers a complete system for downloading all those free-floating gotta-do's clogging your brain into a sophisticated framework of files and action lists--all purportedly to free your mind to focus on whatever you're working on. However, it still operates from the decidedly Western notion that if we could just get really, really organized, we could turn ourselves into 24/7 productivity machines. (To wit, Allen, whom the New Economy bible Fast Company has dubbed "the personal productivity guru," suggests that instead of meditating on crouching tigers and hidden dragons while you wait for a plane, you should unsheathe that high-tech saber known as the cell phone and attack that list of calls you need to return.)As whole-life-organizing systems go, Allen's is pretty good, even fun and therapeutic. It starts with the exhortation to take every unaccounted-for scrap of paper in your workstation that you can't junk, The next step is to write down every unaccounted-for gotta-do cramming your head onto its own scrap of paper. Finally, throw the whole stew into a giant "in-basket"That's where the processing and prioritizing begin; in Allen's system, it get a little convoluted at times, rife as it is with fancy terms, subterms, and sub-subterms for even the simplest concepts. Thank goodness the spine of his system is captured on a straightforward, one-page flowchart that you can pin over your desk and repeatedly consult without having to refer back to the book. That alone is worth the purchase price. Also of value is Allen's ingenious Two-Minute Rule: if there's anything you absolutely must do that you can do right now in two minutes or less, then do it now, thus freeing up your time and mind tenfold over the long term. It's commonsense advice so obvious that most of us completely overlook it, much to our detriment; Allen excels at dispensing such wisdom in this useful, if somewhat belabored, self-improver aimed at everyone from CEOs to soccer moms (who we all know are more organized than most CEOs to start with). --Timothy Murphy
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Topical term or geographic name entry element practicing Stress
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Topical term or geographic name entry element GTD and Cognitive Science
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Personal name ALLEN (David)
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    Dewey Decimal Classification     Commerce St Aloysius Library St Aloysius Library 01/19/2023 Biblios Book Point Surathkal Mangalore 575014 520.00 1 658.4 ALLG 076314 01/20/2025 01/08/2025 650.00 Book