Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity

Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity

• ISBN13: 9780142000281
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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 doing

From 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.With first-chapter allusions to martial arts, “flow,” “mind like water,” and other concepts borrowed from the East (and usually mangled), you’d almost think this self-helper from David Allen should have been called Zen and the Art of Schedule Maintenance.

Not quite. Yes, Getting Things Done offers a complete system for downloading all those free-floating gotta-do’s clogging your brain into a sophisticated framework of files and action lists–all purportedly to free your mind to focus on whatever you’re working on. However, it still operates from the decidedly Western notion that if we could just get really, really organized, we could turn ourselves into 24/7 productivity machines. (To wit, Allen, whom the New Economy bible Fast Company has dubbed “the personal productivity guru,” suggests that instead of meditating on crouching tigers and hidden dragons while you wait for a plane, you should unsheathe that high-tech saber known as the cell phone and attack that list of calls you need to return.)

As whole-life-organizing systems go, Allen’s is pretty good, even fun and therapeutic. It starts with the exhortation to take every unaccounted-for scrap of paper in your workstation that you can’t junk, The next step is to write down every unaccounted-for gotta-do cramming your head onto its own scrap of paper. Finally, throw the whole stew into a giant “in-basket”

That’s where the processing and prioritizing begin; in Allen’s system, it get a little convoluted at times, rife as it is with fancy terms, subterms, and sub-subterms for even the simplest concepts. Thank goodness the spine of his system is captured on a straightforward, one-page flowchart that you can pin over your desk and repeatedly consult without having to refer back to the book. That alone is worth the purchase price. Also of value is Allen’s ingenious Two-Minute Rule: if there’s anything you absolutely must do that you can do right now in two minutes or less, then do it now, thus freeing up your time and mind tenfold over the long term. It’s commonsense advice so obvious that most of us completely overlook it, much to our detriment; Allen excels at dispensing such wisdom in this useful, if somewhat belabored, self-improver aimed at everyone from CEOs to soccer moms (who we all know are more organized than most CEOs to start with). –Timothy Murphy

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From Left: YB Dato’ Seri Utama Dr. Rais Yatim, Minister of Information, Communication and Culture and Dato’ Zamzamzairani Mohd Isa, Group Chief Executive Officer, TM unveiling the low-cost broadband package, Pakej Jalur Lebar TM dengan Komputer 1Malaysia

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As part of the National Broadband Initiative (NBI) which seeks to enhance broadband access to more people in the country, Telekom Malaysia Berhad (TM), in collaboration with the Government of Malaysia, today launched a broadband and netbook package specifically for lower-income households. The new package, called Pakej Jalur Lebar TM dengan Komputer 1Malaysia will offer low income families a combination of both a netbook and Streamyx broadband access from just RM38 per month for 24 months.

The broadband and netbook package was launched by the Minister of Information, Communications and Culture, YB Dato’ Seri Utama Dr. Rais Yatim at a ceremony held in Jelebu, Negeri Sembilan. Also present was Dato’ Zamzamzairani Mohd Isa, Group Chief Executive Officer of TM.

At the launch event, YB Dato’ Seri Utama Dr. Rais Yatim praised TM’s initiative in coming out with a low-cost broadband package specifically for lower-income earners.

The government is pushing hard the initiatives to provide broadband to the whole country as the economical and social benefits are enormous and far-reaching. Achieving a 50 per cent household penetration rate by the end of the year should result in a tangible contribution of one per cent to the GDP and creating 135,000 new jobs while in 2012, it will be 1.39 per cent to the GDP and 220,000 new jobs. With the tagline Broadband for All , the National Broadband initiative will ensure that all Malaysians, either in the suburbs, rural or remote areas, have access to broadband services. The NBI was envisioned to transform Malaysia into a knowledge society and to leapfrog into a high-income economy by 2020.

We want to expand the government’s efforts in providing broadband services to the masses, including those staying in the villages. The government is also addressing the issue of affordability by providing needy segments of society affordable broadband services. We want to connect the rakyat to each other, to communities and broadband is the window to a world of opportunities. With broadband, rakyat will have access to the Internet, information and services that he can capitalize on to improve his social economic standing. This is to ensure that the rural folks will not be left out from this national usage of information, communications technology. I’m certainly excited with the introduction of this attractive entry packages with personal computers and subscriptions for individuals and households by TM.

With this, rural communities in hard-to-reach places can now use broadband to gather useful information and have access to services at their fingertips. I would like to urge the rakyat especially the community here in Jelebu to take this up and reap the enormous benefits that broadband can offer, YB Dato’ Seri Utama Dr. Rais Yatim elaborated.

Dato’ Zamzamzairani hoped that TM’s new low-cost broadband and netbook package would encourage families, especially the youth, to pick up ICT skills and knowledge, improve prospects and opportunities and enjoy a whole new world of entertainment and networking for business and social purposes.

With this affordable PC bundle option, TM is stepping up its effort in championing the cause to support the government’s move towards wider PC and broadband penetration rates throughout the country. We hope this new affordable package will enable more Malaysians to jump on the broadband bandwagon. This package is very suitable for families who have school going children to fully embrace ICT in every facet of their lives be it for knowledge, work, education and entertainment purposes. We hope to expand broadband connectivity among the community through the introduction of this package so that this digital lifestyle can be enjoyed by all levels of the society, said Dato’ Zamzamzairani.

In conjunction with the launch, 30 early adopters of the package comprising residents from around Jelebu received their netbooks from the Minister.

To be eligible to subscribe for the Broadband with Netbook Package, the potential subscriber must meet the following criteria:

The individual must be from households with a monthly income of RM3,000 and below for rural residents throughout the country.

The individual must be from households with a month income of RM5,000 and below for those staying at urban areas

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