The SQUEEZE: Transforming the way you work is important within a changing environment. Change involves recognizing new stresses, confronting confusing, and overcoming anxiety. Resolving these problems is one of many goals of organizational planning. David Allen’s Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity suggests that historical methods are no longer effective in a twenty-first century environment where companies must develop long-term strategies that integrate social media and information technology considerations. Allen links productivity to relaxation, urging readers to create opportunities for a stress-free performance by clearing their minds and producing creative potential. In the book, Allen shows the reader how to empty the in-box, reassess goals, plan projects, overcome anxiety, and feel fine. Allen’s Getting Things Done” is a must-read for business professionals who want to learn how to be efficient without wearing themselves out.

Notable Endorsement: “Allen, a management consultant and executive coach, provides insights into attaining maximum efficiency and at the same time relaxing whenever one needs or wants to. Readers learn that there is no single means for perfecting organizational efficiency or productivity; rather, the author offers tools to focus energies strategically and tactically without letting anything fall through the cracks. He provides tips, techniques, and tricks for implementation of his workflow management plan, which has two basic components: capture all the things that need to get done into a workable, dependable system; and discipline oneself to make front-end decisions with an action plan for all inputs into that system. In short, do it (quickly), delegate it (appropriately), or defer it.”—Mary Whaley, American Library Association

Common Q’s Answered by this Book:

• What is a new practice for a new reality?
• What are the five stages of mastering workflow?
• What are the five phases of project planning?
• What are the three resources needed for getting started?
• What are examples of keeping your system functional?

About the Author: David Allen is a leading expert on personal and organizational productivity. As an executive coach, Allen provides solutions to corporate managers and CEOs of American businesses. Allen’s thirty-year pioneering research has contributed to his success as an influential thinker on stress management, empowering professionals to align their focus and vision and improve peak performance. Allen was listed in Business 2.0 magazine as one of the “50 Who Matter Now.” Allen’s self-help book, “Getting Things Done,” offers a definitive vision about the need for improvement in productivity. Allen has also published two additional books: Ready for Anything: 52 Productivity Principles for Work and Life and Making It All Work: Winning at the Game of Work and the Business of Life. Today, Allen is the chairman of his own organization; through David Allen Company, he provides inspirational seminars on action management. For more information, visit: http://www.davidco.com/.

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Publisher: Penguin Books (December 2002)