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Getting Things Done
The Art of Stress-Free Productivity
David Allen Author of Ready for Anything

6 CPEU or CE hours

Course: $58

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Description
Discover David Allen's powerful methods and vastly increase your personal organization, efficiency, and creative results-at work and in life. In today's world, yesterday's methods just don't work.

Veteran coach and management consultant David Allen shares his breakthrough methods for stress-free performance that he has introduced to tens of thousands of people across the country. Allen's premise is simple: our productivity is directly proportional to our ability to relax. Only when our minds are clear and our thoughts are organized can we achieve effective results and unleash our creative potential.

From core principles to proven tricks, Getting Things Done can transform the way you work and live, showing you how to pick up the pace without wearing yourself down. Learn how to:
 Apply the "do it, delegate it, defer it, drop it rule to get your in-box to empty
 Reassess goals and stay focused in changing situations
 Plan and unstuck projects
 Overcome feelings of confusion, anxiety, and
 Being overwhelmed
 Feel fine about what you're not doing

Level: Intermediate
ISBN: 0142000280
ISBN-13: 9780142000281
Format: Paperback, 288pp
Publisher: Penguin Group (USA)
Edition Description: Reprint
Pub date: 2001

Content
Acknowledgments
Welcome to Getting Things Done
Part 1: The Art of Getting Things Done
Chapter 1. A New Practice for a New Reality
Chapter 2. Getting Control of Your Life: The Five Stages of Mastering Workflow
Chapter 3. Getting Projects Creatively Under Way: The Five Phases of Project Planning
Part 2: Practicing Stress-Free Productivity
Chapter 4. Getting Started: Setting Up the Time, Space, and Tools
Chapter 5. Collection: Corralling Your "Stuff"
Chapter 6. Processing: Getting "In" to Empty
Chapter 7. Organizing: Setting Up the Right Buckets
Chapter 8. Reviewing: Keeping Your System Functional
Chapter 9. Doing: Making the Best Action Choices
Chapter 10. Getting Projects Under Control
Part 3: The Power of the Key Principles
Chapter 11. The Power o the Collection Habit
Chapter 12. The Power of the Next-Action Decision
Chapter 13. The Power of Outcome Focusing
Conclusion
Index

Book author
David Allen is the author of Ready for Anythingand has been called one of the world's most influential thinkers on productivity and has been a keynote speaker and facilitator for such organizations as New York Life, the World Bank, the Ford Foundation, L.L. Bean, and the U.S. Navy, and he conducts workshops for individuals and organizations across the country. He is the president of the David Allen Company and has more than twenty years experience as a management consultant and executive coach. His work has been featured in Fast Company, Fortune, the Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and may other publications. Getting Things Done has been published in twelve foreign countries. David Allen lives in Ojai, California.

Reviews
"For someone who has been dying from good opportunities for years, Getting Things Done came along in the nick of time. David Allen's strategies for getting on top of your workload are invaluable. Read this book!" - Ken Blanchard, coauthor, The One Minute Manager and Whale Done!

"[David Allen's methods] should be required for everyone entering business, public, or non-profit careers. -
John Edwin Mroz, president, EastWest Institute

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