The more power that rests with the people, the less there is for minority global actors to wield. This remains true whether or not the people are right or wrong. It's still the best place for meaningful influence to reside.
Your future success as a leader depends on your ability to extract yourself from operational minutiae and make time for strategic activity. If you're having trouble getting out of the weeds, you don't need a new productivity trick. You need to begin a deeper leadership journey to address four core factors - Tactics, Influence, Mindset and Environment (T.I.M.E.). Richard Medcalf, an advisor to some of the world's most accomplished CEOs, reveals the secrets to becoming a more strategic leader, and offers a complete set of strategies to help you elevate your focus. Learn how to: clarify on your most important strategic activities build a robust plan to quickly free up time win over your key stakeholders address the beliefs that are keeping you in busywork create a culture of focus across your entire team and much more. Making TIME for Strategy will radically change how you think about your path to leadership impact, and give you practical tools to move you away from incremental progress and closer to breakthrough results.
The book offers a comprehensive collection of David Allen's writings on the Los Angeles County Fair from 1998 to 2021, capturing the essence of the event through vivid stories about its people, attractions, and concert lineups. Readers will experience the fair's unique atmosphere, including its sights, sounds, and smells, providing an immersive look into this beloved community event over the years.
An accessible, practical, step-by-step guide that supplements Getting Things Done by providing the details, the how-to's and the practices to apply GTD more fully and easily in daily life
A groundbreaking book about how to harness the power of collaboration and work most effectively in groups-coauthored by Getting Things Done's David Allen
As a GTD devotee for nearly two decades, I know how these principles have transformed my own work life. So I'm thrilled that David Allen is bringing his brilliance to our young people. Today's teenagers face a tsunami of distractions and pressures. This practical and powerful book will ease their stress and focus their minds in ways that will last a lifetime. The most interconnected generation in history is navigating immense social pressure, yet little time or education is dedicated to teaching them how to manage the overwhelming influx of information in their lives. How can we help them deal with complexity and thrive? How do we foster stress-free productivity, build momentum, and instill confidence? This book will train the next generation to overcome obstacles and flourish by applying the renowned Getting Things Done methodology. With over a million copies sold and translations in dozens of languages, David Allen's classic has become one of the most influential business books. This adaptation offers a fresh perspective on GTD, framing life as a game and GTD as the strategies to play effectively. It presents the methodology visually and positions it as not just a school productivity system, but as essential tools for everyday life. This is the how-to manual for creating conditions for a fruitful and effective future.
In today's world, yesterday's methods just don't work. In Getting Things Done, veteran coach and management consultant David Allen shares the 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 productivity and unleash our creative potential. In Getting Things Done Allen shows 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 projects as well as get them unstuck* Overcome feelings of confusion, anxiety, and being overwhelmed* Feel fine about what you're not doingFrom core principles to proven tricks, Getting Things Done can transform the way you work, showing you how to pick up the pace without wearing yourself down.
Makes recommendations for altering one's perspectives in order to see life as a game that can be won, offering suggestions for handling information overload, achieving focus, and trusting oneself while making decisions.
Provides tips and advice for improving productivity, increasing creativity, and achieving balance in business and daily life.
Holacracy is a revolutionary management system that redefines management and turns everyone into a leader. Some of the many champions of Holacracy include Tony Hsieh, CEO of Zappos.com (author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Delivering Happiness).
