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May 05, 2005
Brokers, books, and balmy...
Returned from a lovely evening at Books & Books in Coral Gables, with Steve Leveen giving his mini-workshop and signing his new book, mentioned in my blog below. Steve is an incredibly good speaker, and brings a wealth of experience and love to his message about conscious book-reading.
(More to come, soon, about the Levenger connection. Stay tuned.)
Mitch Kaplan, the owner of Books & Books, treated us to a late dinner "after the show" - wonderful guy, one of the leaders still out there of the small independent, salon/community bookstores (he has authors speaking almost every night). He's also the founder and head of the Miami Book Festival. (Also has a branch inside the Levenger headquarters store in Del Rey Beach).
Mitch Kaplan - owner of Books & Books
We were also joined by Les Standiford, author of the new Meet You in Hell: Andrew Carnegie, Henry Clay Frick, and the Bitter Partnership that Transformed America. I've read Les' previous non-fiction book, Last Train to Paradise, a fascinating account of the train built to Key West.
Lovely late night here in balmy Miami...
Almost hard to remember that this morning I gave a keynote (Ready for Anything: Staying Sane in a World of Too Much to Do) to 500 executives at the Securities Industry Association (SIA) conference in Orlando. I followed a panel of securities regulators talking about new rules in the industry, and they put me on right afterwards hoping that I would add a lighter touch and a salve to the heavy messages. Hopefully that's what they got! They all did get a copy of Getting Things Done, so something might stick or help out there as they unpack all their "stuff" back at the ranch...
Posted by David at May 5, 2005 09:31 PM
Comments
Curious to hear more about your relationship with Levenger ... I hope it's what I think it is.
Mark
Posted by: Mark Jantzen at May 6, 2005 06:02 AM
Well, now David has me really intrigued. "More on the Levenger connection" later? Two of my favorites David Allen and Levenger, together? Too exciting.
Posted by: Randy Stokes at May 6, 2005 08:22 AM
Perhaps the long awaited Evening Module 2.0 is to be made by Levenger ....
Posted by: Joel at May 6, 2005 03:45 PM
Good guess.
David
ps: let's see who picks up on this little, hidden, in-the-blog-comments-slightly-after-the-blog clue.
pps: still in major R&D mode about blogging, who cares, and why should I care, mode. FYI.
Posted by: David Allen at May 6, 2005 06:33 PM
Hidden in the comments? :-)
I'm using bloglines to read my weblogs and the posts on your site show up as new every time someone adds a comment. So I guess there are quite a few out there that notice.
Reinout
Posted by: Reinout van Rees at May 7, 2005 02:30 AM
David,
Interesting possibilities with you and Levenger! I love your stuff and their stuff so whatever comes out of the relationship is bound to be lovely!
Blogs and blogging are interesting. I think the good ones allow the reader to feel a deeper connection with the individual blogging. For me your blog makes GTD more practical - not just a theory that sounds good in a book. It is nice to read about the good and the bad (not the ugly - I'm just a blog reader for crying out loud!). There are some that I read on a regular basis (yours - of course, Michael Hyatt, Seth Godin and a couple others) and then the rest that I just check in on every once in awhile.
Good luck on the future of both Levenger's and blogging.
MH
Posted by: Marshall Huwe at May 7, 2005 06:32 AM
David, it's about time you and Steve Leveen got together. A very good match—for the two of you and probably for the rest of us.
Posted by: Jim Mustich at May 7, 2005 07:36 AM
