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David Allen's book, Making It All Work, is available at Amazon.com and bookstores everywhere, and there's a free (and fairly long) live recording of Allen touring the book and general productivity concepts.
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Matt Kramerifehacker has been writing about David Allen's advice on getting more from your time since its earliest posts. We recently peppered Allen with questions about picking up where GTD left off; here's what he had to say.
If you're new 'round these parts, or only rarely delve into detailed time-management, Allen is the author of Getting Things Done, the much-referenced guide to breaking up the myriad tasks, messages, and projects of any kind of work into a schedule and system you can work from anywhere. When the terms "universal capture," "two-minute rule," or "next action" pop up, there's probably a GTD geek hovering nearby. Our editor practices a simplified kind of GTD, and uses its principles to empty her inbox with the "Trusted Trio."
Allen is also the founder of the David Allen Company, which coaches managers and consults on improving productivity in companies. His latest book, Making It All Work: Winning at the Game of Work and Business of Life, picks up, in a way, where Getting Things Done left off, as you'll read below.
Lifehacker: What will someone who has already read Getting Things Done learn from Making It All Work?
David Allen: Why, if they implemented some of the GTD techniques, they potentially experienced something more significant than just a workable technique.
Lifehacker: Can someone who hasn't read Getting Things Done start with Making It All Work? How linked are the ideas and systems in the two books?
DA: Yes, absolutely. MIAW takes the GTD principles a bit wider and deeper.
Lifehacker: How many GTD-focused, third-party software apps, calendars, pads, or other gear come to your attention every day/week/month?
DA: It varies from a couple each day to a couple each week. Some of these are brought to my attention, and many are brought to the attention of my presenters, coaches, and office staff.
Lifehacker: What functions or features of those third-party systems are most important for creating a realistic, task-oriented system? What aspects of third-party systems tend to fail, or misdirect?
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Lifehacker: What kinds of unique challenges do workers who almost exclusively use a computer for work face, apart from the standard challenges in any office environment?
DA: We have so many opportunities to distract ourselves with what's available on our computers. It can take more discipline to work productively on a computer, when it's designed to feed us interruptions and take us down fascinating rabbit trails, with notifications of new emails, animated instant messages, lots of interesting clickable links, all in a rich multimedia environment. And, there's an out-of-sight, out-of-reviewed, syndrome that tends to cause action management on the computer to become stale and secondary to latest and loudest self-management.
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