re: influential books
Hi Robert. I don't have the URLs handy, but a previous search of these forums I did a while ago came up with the authors/titles listed below. You may try searching for "Mackenzie", which gets threads like:
Other Good Time Management Books?
http://davidco.com/forum/showthread.php?t=2012
Best time/self management book (other than Dave's) you read
http://davidco.com/forum/showthread.php?t=2645
Interlocking GTD, MacKenzie, Tracy etc.
http://davidco.com/forum/showthread.php?t=2401
Any other authors out there like David Allen?
http://davidco.com/forum/showthread.php?t=3745
Please pass along any others you find - I'm in absorb mode!
matt
Covey: best guidance on how to navigate 50,000 foot level
GTD: helps track all commitments you bring back from 50,000 foot level
Mackenzie: makes damn sure you DO stuff
Anthony Robbins: provide rocket to get you to 50,000 foot level
1. Getting Things Done
2. What They Don't Teach You At Harvard Business School by late Mark McCormack
3. The Effective Executive by Peter Drucker
4. First Things First by Stephen Covey, et al.
Covey: First Things First
Winton: The Organized Executive
??: The On-Purpose Person
Peter Drucker: The Effective Executive
Dr. Charles Hobbs: Time Power (paper planners)
Kerry Gleeson: PEP (Personal Efficiency Program)
Dan Kennedy: 'No BS Time Management'
Don Aslett: How to have a 48 Hour Day
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People - Stephen Covey
The Time Trap - Alec Mackenzie
Lillian Gilbreth
Stephanie Winston's "The Organized Executive"
Mark McCormack in "Getting Results for Dummies"
Dr. Charles Hobbs: Time Power (paper planners)
The Time Trap - Alec Mackenzie
"The Means and Manner of Obtaining Virtue" - Benjamin Franklin
Take Control by Michael A. Janke
Conquering Chaos at Work - Harriet Schechter
Time of Your Life by Anthony Robbins (tape program)
Covey First Things First
Hyrum Smith
"The War of Art" Break though the Blocks and Win your Inner Creative
Battles by Steven Pressfield
The Power of Full Engagement Managing Energy not Time is the Key to
High Performance and Personal Renewal by Jim Loehr and Tony Schwartz
"Do Less, Achieve More" by Chin-Ning Chu
"Get Everything Done and Still Have Time to Play" by Mark Forster
"Managing multiple projects" by Irene and Michael Tobis
o notes:
an awful lot are not readily implemented and have no self-repair
feature--they make people feel terrible--GTD has many self-repair
features--that is, if it is not working you can put the failure
into the system and work on it's cause or understanding it and
fixing it.
GTD is the best system because it is very flexible and allows for
our human weaknesses like procastination, bad or no planning,
plain laziness, lack of objectives, lack of interest in
objectives, and also illnesses, accidents, and so forth.
To decide what to work on next, you should pick the activity
towards you feel the most resistance, as that will generally be
the thing that really needs to be done. Moreover, once these are
out of the way, the rest of your day is easier, and it generates a
sense of achievement and satisfaction, while doing away with
stress, whichy tends to build up as you give in to resistance.
