David--

I KNEW it would happen...I remember talking to you about it back in Oct 03 in Boston (I was auditing your GTD course-- and my wife was taking it for the first time). The next month (Nov 03), I deployed to Oman and Qatar in support of Operations IRAQI and ENDURING FREEDOM (with your data dump and weekly review "que cards" in hand!), and while at the Combined Air Operations Center, managed to get several AF people EXTREMELY interested in GTD (and I was working for the current Air War College Commandant while I was over there). I have had for years the burning hope you'd start training this stuff to Squadron Officer's Course (Captains), Air Command and Staff (Majors), and Air War College (Lieutenant Colonels) [even thought hard back in the mid to late 90's about calling you and volunteering to train it for you there...but that's still on my "Someday Maybe" list]. Needless to say, I've been pushing it informally to everyone I can in the Air Force. I'm a reservist living in Colorado...let me know if you need an assist with AF lingo and how to put GTD in "AF-ese".

This is GREAT!

Kent Valentine

Kent,

How great for your seeds to sprout! Thanks for what you've done to spread the word. I'll consider you a resource for AF-ese, too!

David

David,

This is great to hear. As I look back on my Air Force career, I see so many opportunities like this where I could have used GTD, and am eagerly looking forward to those future opportunities to show my colleagues how I've managed to achieve success with this method. It's an exciting time!

David,

Am jealous that the Air Force had you speak. Hopefully the Navy will engage you down here in Norfolk sometime soon. I've had alot of success using your method in my work and look forward to your future writing/appearances

I think it's a little doubtful saying. I think they take their time to entertain theirselves as well.

ACSC is a good place to start the ball rolling, but may I suggest it might be equally vital to present it at SOS. If you can introduce this GTD virus widely among the lower ranks then they can spread it to all corners of the organization as their careers progress. Persistent peer-level reinforcement at the O2/O3 level will help embed GTD concepts into the culture, and will give ACSC grads more leverage as mentors.

The last thing I'd hope to see is a "GTD Program". That would probably kill this beneficial bug quicker than you could say "MBO", and we seek to infect -- not inoculate! ...and I see my two minutes are up. ;)