- GTD is complex, requiring long-tuning by themselves.
- Nevertheless, many people find the system useful, many of its offer, in addition, a revised version.
- David Allen promises to broaden the concept of a new book, focusing on harmonization of work and life.
Backstage GTD: why thousands of fans looking for more.
The site of book giant Amazon.com is the same book, took first place in the query results «productivity» (the awarding of more than 170 thousand titles) and the results of the query «time management» (more than 70 thousand titles). The book is called «The art of productivity without stress». Author - David Allen, Californian management consultant. First published in 2001, 350 page manual Allen generates endless reviews, is an international best-seller within 7 years, is still not out of the list «twenty best business books for today» Wall Street Journal.
«Getting Things Done» (or GTD) - not another book on the theory of business thinking. The system of time-management Allen has been adapted for the requirements of the information age, what attracted the attention of the IT sector and has created around himself a cult of followers, using Allen's advice to all the life processes.
The basic principle of GTD - is the transfer of all obligations of the information, and important cases from your head to the system that you trust. As a result, promises to Allen, you get almost instant stress reduction, and consequently increase productivity. Why is such a simple system is done so much noise?
Fans of the system - a force which should be respected. At the request of «GTD» Google returns more than six million matches, a system inspired by the author of many popular blogs about personal productivity, has created a industry interpreters guru and want to learn it. As Gary Wolf of «Wired», «Allen revived the tradition of" help themselves "in the information age». But while some bloggers zealously followed the letter of GTD, others are active network discussions on how to modify the system of GTD, so that it responds to their personal needs.
In contrast to the global corporate culture, entirely under the influence of marketing super-guru type Stephen COWI, Tom Peters and Gary Hemela, concentrated on the vision, mission and objectives, the «bottom up» Allen promises to reduce stress and increase productivity. Each piece of information that our brains trying to track wood in the furnace of stress. GTD includes the collection and processing of each particle, every promise, almost - every thought, stores the information in «card» and then allows you to get it through a set of regular review of the cases.
GTD-followers and GTD-improvement
Followers of GTD Merlin Mann, Gina Trapani, and Leo Babauta improved system systematize Allen, turning it into something more technique, more and more dzen. In doing so, they attention of the public Internet.
