Ready For Anything By Allen D. (Book)

In his bestselling first book, Getting Things Done, veteran coach and management consultant David Allen presented his breakthrough methods to increase efficiency. Now ''the personal productivity guru'' shows readers how to increase their ability to work better, not harder-every day. ''Ready for Anything'' offers readers 52 ways to immediately clear your head for creativity, focus your attention, create structures that work, and take action to get things moving. With wit, inspiration, and know-how, Allen shows readers how to make things happen-with less effort and stress, and lots more energy, creativity, and effectiveness. Ready for Anything is the perfect book for anyone wanting to work and live at his or her very best. David Allen is president of David Allen & Co. and has more than twenty years' experience as a management consultant, executive coach, and educator. He has been a keynote speaker and productivity facilitator for organizations such as Oracle, L. L. Bean, Microsoft, Lockheed, and the World Bank.His work has been featured in Fast Company, Fortune, and many other publications. PART I: CLEAR YOUR HEAD FOR CREATIVITY or Getting the Loose Ends to Leave You Alone 1. Cleaning up creates new directions. 2. You can only feel good about what you're not doing when you know what you're not doing. 3. Knowing your commitments creates better choices of new ones. 4. Getting to where you're going requires knowing where you are. 5. Infinite opportunity is utilized by finite possibility. 6. Two commitments in your head create stress and failure. 7. Priorities function only at the conscious level. 8. Closing open loops releases energy. 9. If it's on your mind, it's probably not getting done. 10. Creativity shows up when there's space. 11. The deeper the channel, the greater the flow. 12. Worry is a waste. 13. You are not your work. PART II: FOCUS PRODUCTIVELY or What's the Point of a Point of View? 14. For more clarity, look from a higher place. 15. You won't see how to do it until you see yourself doing it. Waking Up Again to Making It Up Again 16. Working hard enough is impossible. 17. Energy follows thought. 18. The clearer your purpose, the more ways to fulfill it. 19. Best is much better than good. 20. A change in focus equals a change in result. 21. Perspective is the most valuable commodity on the planet. 22. You have to think about your stuff more than you think. 23. You don't have to think about your stuff as much as you're afraid you might. 24. If you know what you're doing, efficiency is the only improvement opportunity. 25. Only one thing on your mind is ''in the zone.'' 26. The value of a future goal is the present change it fosters. PART III: CREATE STRUCTURES THAT WORK or It's Hard to Stay on Track Without Rails 27. Stability on one level opens creativity on another. 28. Form and function must match for maximum productivity. 29. Your system has to be better than your mind for your mind to let go. 30. Response ability improves viability. 31. Your system is only as good as its weakest link. 32. The effectiveness of your system is inversely proportional to your awareness of it. 33. Function follows form. 34. You can't win a game you haven't defined. 35. Whenever two or more are responsible for something, usually nobody is. The Inner Committee 36. Prime your principles instead of policing your policies. 37. Use your mind to think about your work, instead of thinking of it. 38. You are thinking more valuably than you may think. 39. The necessity to plan and organize is inversely proportional to your perceived resources. Why the Human Race Is Taking So Long to Evolve PART IV: RELAX AND GET IN MOTION or How to Be Where the Action Is 40. You're the only one playing your game. 41. Too controlled is out of control. 42. The better you get, the better you'd better get. 43. Trusting your action choice requires multilevel self-management. 44. Your power is proportional to your ability to relax. 45. Surprises, expected, are no surprise. 46. The longer your horizon, the smoother your moves. 47. You speed up by slowing down. 48. You don't have time to do any project. 49. Small things, done consistently, create major impact. 50. You have to do something to know something. 51. It's easier to move when you're in motion. 52. The biggest successes come from the most failures. PART V: REMIND YOURSELF OF THE FUNDAMENTALS or Common Sense Isn't That Common THE FIVE PHASES OF WORKFLOW MASTERY PROCESSING AND ORGANIZING WORKFLOW THE NATURAL PLANNING MODEL THE WEEKLY REVIEW Afterword

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ISBN	9780143034544
More	135 x 203 mm, 192 pp.

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