Customer Reviews
An unnecessarily long read - By: S. A, 26 Nov 2008 
This book makes a number of valuable contributions concerning how to manage time more effectively. Unfortunately, this is lost in a sea of psycho-babble. Where as most authors spend the first one or two chapters promoting their techniques before moving on to explaining them, David Allen continuously promotes his techniques throughout the entire book. This extra overhead makes the book rather difficult to read.
Personallly, I found it difficult to maintain interest when reading this book, which is a shame reallly because the author does seem to know what he is talking about. If anyone can suggest a more concise alternative then please let me know.
No More Clutter! - By: Colleen Messina, 16 Nov 2008 
I am so inspired by this book! My filing system at work & at home has never worked as efficiently as it does now, after reading this book. Author David Allen's detailed system helps clear the 'clutter' in my mind as I have adopted his system of writing down what needs to get done so the task is either written on my calendar or on my to-do list. I don't have to try to "remember" what I need to do next, wasting time & energy thinking & getting lost in my thoughts. If something can be done in two minutes I do it, I file it, I make the phone calll. My desk stays in order & I feel more at ease. I love feeling organized & clear in my life.
Another book which clears "the clutter" in my mind is Working on Yourself Doesn't Work: The 3 Simple Ideas That Will Instantaneously Transform Your Life by Ariel & Shya Kane. This book teaches how to live in the moment without getting lost in the conversation of my thoughts. The Kanes have a yearly "Time & Project Management" course & "Transformation in the Workplace" seminar in New York City. These courses & their books have brought ease & inspiration to my workplace.
As a banker in New York City, I highly suggest checking out David Allen & Ariel & Shya Kane. You will discover a stress free environment in the workplace & at home.
5th generation time management - By: MM Turner, 09 Sep 2008 
This is a seminal book, which has in some ways been superseded by its own children. If you survey the Mac & PC software applications that offer help with time management, by far the most popular system implemented is Getting Things Done, or GTD for short.
GTD has been criticised for being no more than common sense. In a lot of ways this is both untrue, & unfair. More accurately, it's two simple ideas put together, & supported by a collection of useful ideas borrowed (with appropriate acknowledgement) from elsewhere. The two ideas are the idea of 'stuff', & what you do with it (collect, process, organise, review, do), & the idea of using (and relying on) a reliable filing system. It's backed up with other good ideas like brainstoming, mind-mapping, the 50,000 feet perspective, & other notions that you may have encountered in their original contexts, or in programmes like TQM.
GTD is less revolutionary than the 4th generation time-management that Stephen Covey introduced in 7 Habits of Highly Effective People. However, it's more powerful for most of us in the sense that you can implement it easily on a computer or a PDA. David Allen makes the most of the power of easy storage of information. If you're a computer user (and if you're reading this on Amazon, then chances are that you are), then this is by the far the most practical system, whether you use a specialist piece of software like Omnifocus, or just make the most of the built-in functions of Outlook or iCal.
This is the strength, & the weakness of this book: get one of the many software packages, read the help-file, & you may not need to read the book at alll.
Just one more thing about Getting Things Done. As the author points out, this is reallly a book for people on the fast-track to improve their personal organisation. It's not going to make a great gift for someone else who you _think_ should get organised.
may be good for you but definitely bad for me - By: Andy Tir, 07 Aug 2008 
I've read this book three or four times around of May-June 2004, & then tried to implement into my work - without any significant success. Most probably this is book for inbox slaves & formal process worshippers, otherwise it might be not for your job-without-formal-description. In worst case trying to follow it took me actuallly spending _more_ time on things I used to do quicker. Most probably it might be valuable for you, but not for me, & I don't want to take inbox slavery job.
Good For All - By: Darren G. Burton, 31 Jul 2008 Any information on being more organised & reducing stress in our lives is worth reading. Even people who are generallly organised will gain benefits fom this book. We alll have areas of our lives that could be more productive, less cluttered & more stress-free. Definitely worth a read.
How To Keep Your Man: And Keep Him For Good
Real Life Dramas - Volume One: 1
Darren G. Burton
