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Making It All Work: Winning At The Game Of Work And Business Of Life (2003)

by David Allen(Favorite Author)

3.85 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

067001995X (ISBN13: 9780670019953)

languge

English

genre

Nonfiction

publisher

Viking Adult

review 1: I'm a fan of GTD and Allen's first book was revolutionary. If you are expecting lots of new ideas in the sequel you will be disappointed. This book simply offers deeper exploration of the ideas of the first, in particular offering a more detailed look at using the horizons of focus, an important and often overlooked aspect of the GTD system.Unfortunately, the book came out at the dawn of the smartphone age so is rather dated, referring to keeping notepads for capture by all the phones in your house, and offers very little practical advice on how one should implement the system in a world of smartphones and ubiquitous internet connectivity.My other criticism of the book is that, at times, it is way too jargon heavy and he can often make an idea which could be simply express... moreed, unnecessarily complicated. One can't help but feel that he was just trying to pad out enough material to publish a second book. If you really want to learn more about how to practically implement the best of Allen's ideas in the modern world, buy a copy of Omnifocus 2 for each of the devices you own, and then buy 'OmniFocus Premium Posts' by the awesome guys over at Asianefficiency.com. In my opinion, they have provided the best writeup on how to actually turn his ideas into a system that you can use every day.
review 2: I loved his first book, GTD, which was very much a how-to description and implementation of his system. This book, though, is EXTREMELY repetitive and verbose. I rated it three stars instead of two because I did think the last 80-90 pages out of nearly 300 had some great information in it concerning gaining PERSPECTIVE. He dives into elaborations of his 6 horizons of focus. That part was very helpful, as well as the appendices he adds to his book. less

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