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GETTING THINGS DONE

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This book was an inspiration that started me on a successful top management career. I've used this book in several leadership roles, over a 20-year period, as an motivational primer to set subordinates on a path to self-management and achievement. It's a quick and easy guide on how to get things done and to simplify your life too. Beats all of the other how-to books on time management that I've read, combined. Some of the basic management skills never change, no matter what the latest popular trend or fad.

It's truly a shame that this book is no longer stocked. Since I first read it, back in 1990, I have recycled over 8 hours, per week, back into my personal life. This is the gift of this book. I learned that time management isn't simply a bunch of random techniques that allow you to spend more time at work. Instead, it's a set of a few effective principles that allow you to spend more time in your life. To play more. Visit more. Enjoy more. It's easy-to-read and easy-to-do. Within 7 days you'll see and "feel" the difference in your life!

This book is the book for the chronically disorganized. It offers many practical and straightforward tips. I have read several books on the subject, most of which lectured the reader or talked down to them. This book provides bite-sized morsels of information. Disorganization is a life long problem, much like alcoholism. It is very easy to fall off the wagon. This book takes about an hour to read. Its length, humerous style and subject-by-subject organization makes it very practical to reread whenever one falls off the wagon. It has become my bible. The Complete Idiot's Guide to Organization and The Organized Executive Pale in comparison

I found this so useful that I bought copies for all my colleagues in my department and we used it as a resource for quick discussion meetings on how to save time. Full of practical sense.

This book is highly digestible, humorous, and full of short 1-2 page guidelines on the many aspects of life that divert us from getting things done.

It is not a "12-step program" but rather a useful collection of key notions that can be directly applied to work/home situations.

Though it looks quite old fashioned to-day, it is full of sound advice that ar untemporal and international ... Hints are so well related to our human nature that you will appreciate this book whether you are chinese or from Albion (Michigan), the most beautiful small college in the world!

This is the first time management book I read. This book contains sections of practical advice to help you get things done. I consider it almost as good as "Working Smart" by Michael Leboeuf.

Even though this was written long ago, the wisdom in this book applies across the times.