Personal productivity and GTD on the rise. Effectiveness, efficiency, and GTD is today’s most wanted skill.
by desi.italy
Here are few unarguable facts
- David Allen: Getting Things Done - GTD godfather gives his talk to Googlers.
- Authors@Google: Marci Alboher & Tim Ferriss (self explanatory)
- Stephen Covey Speaks at Microsoft - softies are lucky to hear Stephen live in Redmond campus.
- Dr. Stephen Covey’s thought-provoking speech at Microsoft - another coverage of Stephen Covey’s talk at Microsoft.
Software giants seek the ways to perform better - more effectively, more productively, more efficiently. How? They adopt proven patterns & practices - GTD by David Allen, New Rich by Tim Ferris, and the wisdom of Stephen Covey’s The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People
Personal Development Practice Is Your Competitive Advantage
What does it all mean to you and me? It means that you and I are on absolutely right path. You and I offer the most demanded quality - constant improvement of personal effectiveness and efficiency. If you are executive level guy - you can lead the company to long and short term wins and hopefully get acquired by either Microsoft or Google ;), or even beat them both! If you are midlevel manager - you can make your team perform with peak results without burning out and hopefully get promoted to executive level. If you are individual contributor - you can hit your goals, expect for promotion to midlevel management position while keeping healthy work-life balance.
Here is how Michio Kaku sees the future capitalists (from his keynote during last TechReady6 convention in Microsoft, Seattle):
Want to be the next capitalist? Consider adopting/adapting this awesome material - Better Than Free (it only proves Michio Kaku is right).
How do you add extra value to your product, how do you add extra value to what you can offer? You practice personal development principles and techniques. You practice, practice, practice this until it becomes daily habit so that your thoughtful part of brain is available for creative work - The Secret Behind GTD [Getting Things Done] Revealed.
What Is Next
I expect massive investment in building and running effectiveness workshops inside the large companies. In fact, our own team already ran few session on that one - that was awful, which is good - there is a room for improvement and growth. Most important is that it is a good sign. My wife who works for large company too came back home the other day and told me her team is invited to time management workshops and other personal effectiveness training.
I expect significant growth of services offerings from personal coaches and GTD trainers - I already can spot few ads in local papers (and I live in a very small town). If you are in coaching biz - it is show time for you, teaching sells!
I bet Tony Robbins now smiles a huge smile asking himself 2 questions:
- Who is going to hire me first - Microsoft or Google? (already did that for IBM according to Charlie Rose)
- How much should I charge them?
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http://practicethis.com/2008/03/06/4-dimensions-of-personal-power/
Interesting, my colleague told me the same yesterday – “I cannot accept the fact I program myself, it sort of plugs me into the Matrix”. Exactly! But the difference is that the architect this Matrix is you. Afraid of the Matrix? Then call it simply “discipline”. Discipline of taking care for your physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual health in focused and effective way. Focusing and effectiveness are your friends.
BTW, Vered - I am the first one to subscribe to your new website - http://www.uptous.com/. Looking forward to reading it.
http://www.stephencovey.com/blog/?p=15
Read the first paragraph – it will knock you off your socks. I am still recovering…
Then i recalled you got the raise for doing more with less…
practicing effectiveness is the way to survive and skyrocket these days
In return I’d try providing constructive feedback.
We all may benefit by being in the personal development blog community. I may have to rush and buy used copy of GTD from Amazon.
Shilpan
Gtdagenda.com
You can use it to manage your goals, projects and tasks, set next actions and contexts, use checklists, schedules and a calendar.
A mobile version is available too.
As with the last update, now Gtdagenda has full Someday/Maybe functionality, you can easily move your tasks and projects between “Active”, “Someday/Maybe” and “Archive”. This will clear your mind, and will boost your productivity.
Hope you like it.
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