Making it All Work: David Allen’s New Book Now Available

For those who haven’t already heard, David Allen’s latest book is now available: Making It All Work: Winning at the Game of Work and Business of Life. I haven’t read it yet, but when I do I’m sure I’ll be interacting with it in some posts.

Here’s the summary :

Why this book? Why now? GTD, now in 28 languages, has become a viral phenomenon around the world. An understanding of the reasons for that success and the principles behind the power of GTD opens a much broader application of the underlying formulae for success, across the whole span of life and work. “Making It All Work” illuminates the true basics of self-management - control and perspective - and how to get and keep both in any and every situation with solutions simpler, and more sophisticated, than you think.

David Allen shows us how to excel in dealing with our daily commitments, the unexpected, and the information overload that threatens to drown us. “Making It All Work” provides an instantly usable, success-building toolkit for winning “the game.”

“Making It All Work” addresses: How to figure out where you are in life and what you need; How to be your own consultant and the CEO of your life; Moving from hope to trust in decision-making; When not to set goals; Harnessing intuition,spontaneity, and serendipity; And why life is like business and business is like life.

BNET has several excerpts from the book (HT: Lifehacker):

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January 7, 2009 | Filed Under Productivity

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5 Responses to “Making it All Work: David Allen’s New Book Now Available”

Jonathan Coleman on January 7th, 2009 1:44 pm

I’d be interested in your comments on LifeHacker’s Upgrade Your Life book.

Thanks for a great blog!
Jon
Matt on January 8th, 2009 8:09 am

Jon,

I thumbed through Upgrade Your Life a few months ago and enjoyed what I read. I found some helpful things.

I need to give it a more thorough look, which I hope to do at some point in the near future. But my initial impression was favorable.

Matt
Kevin Crenshaw on January 8th, 2009 5:28 pm

Matt,

Your About page mentions both 7 Habits and GTD; Making It All Work provides theory for merging GTD with a top-down, big vision approach like Covey. However, in my opinion it’s not a how-to guide.

I’d like to hear your reaction to our solution to that need–a custom online training system that adapts to your organization tools, tweaks GTD principles just enough, and merges them with the power of perspective. The result is in an even simpler-than-plain-GTD approach. This training is free/inexpensive:

http://www.priacta.com/Training/troonline.php

Feedback can be left here or inside the training system itself. Thanks!
Matt on January 9th, 2009 8:17 am

Kevin,

I took a quick look your system and the free training. Really good to know about.

It is good to see a solution for integrating the big-picture that goes into details on how to do that. That’s what we need more of.

My main initial suggestion regarding the site and training is that you hear a lot about what the training will do both on the site and at the beginning of the training, but you don’t get into specific details until a ways into the training (principles like “the more collection points you have, the worse off you will be”). I would maybe try streamline the early parts of the training a bit and give some more specific principles and practices on the general website, outside of the training module.
Kevin Crenshaw on January 9th, 2009 4:16 pm

Thanks Matt. Good suggestion, that’s definitely in the plans, as is detailed support for more tool combinations, etc. We appreciate the feedback.