Ready for Anything

52 Productivity Principles for Work and Life
David Allen

After reading Getting Things Done back in March I did have a note, in OmniFocus naturally, to re-read it in six months time which is about now. Instead I read Ready for Anything expecting more of the same and was disappointed.

I guess that the 52 essay format just doesn't really lend itself to reading from cover to cover. The 3 or 4 quotes that are scattered at the edges of each section don't really help either. After a while I stopped reading them hoping to get more insight from the text itself, but that didn't happen either.

The only good thing that I got from the book was that it has kick-started my GTD system again. It kept referencing Getting Things Done which really made me wish that I'd read that instead.

Posted on Monday, 29 September 2008
Tagged with book review, book:title=ready for anything, book:author=david allen, book:isbn=0749924799, twitter:username=gtdguy

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gtdguy: Maturity = listening for & acting on intuitive insight vs. conditioned responses to habitual thinking.2 days ago
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