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July 02, 2005

Leaning toward workplace learning

Spent the day working, mapping more of our own plans to meet the growing demand from larger organizations from us about how to embed GTD further into their cultures. Kathryn, Anne Gennett, Brandon Hall (now our Acting Director of Workplace Learning), and our friend Steve (head of training for a biotech company, and a great "friend of the court" for us in this regard) pow-wowed in our living room in Ojai. We progressed our thinking and got clearer about the kinds of products most needed to support organizational rollouts, and our own roadmap to make them available. Training and development within larger organizations remains one of the best places on the planet for adult education, and we still feel pulled to take advantage of that to spread GTD.


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Me, Steve, Brandon, Kathryn doing the holiday work thing...

Posted by David at July 2, 2005 06:43 PM

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ps: you've an open <strong> tag at the end of 'Me, Steve, Brandon, Kathryn doing the holiday work thing...' that's bolding your entire front page.

feel free to delete this comment after a fix, since it's really more of an email message, but ... :)

Posted by: tak at July 4, 2005 10:13 AM

David:

I've been "coming on board" for the past year through your book, templates, website info, and text-version Outlook add-in. I feel that your methodology has made a very positive difference in my work and life activities; thank you!! I would like to attend one of your seminars; however, as a "regular guy", I do have some difficulty with the price (totally worth it, but just outside my reach for now). I would encourage you to include plans for the future to make your presentation available via media that would enable a greater number of individuals without access to corporate funding to partake.

Thanks, and keep up the good work!

Barry

Posted by: Barry Ogletree at July 5, 2005 06:28 AM

I appreciate that your corporate work is where the money is, but I believe that there are a great many of us who are not in the corporate world who need your brain-storming as well. I'm in a small law office, and I don't have staff running around to do all the things that have to be done -- I'm it. Which means that managing what needs to be done can take as much time as actually doing many of my tasks.

Please don't forget about us little people out here in the unglamorous masses.

Posted by: Greta at July 5, 2005 12:36 PM

I hear you. We're in the process of creating ways for the individual to engage with GTD. It's a challenging business model, because of the one-off nature of the transactions (vs corporate buys), and I've never really liked the hype of the motivational speaking circuit tailored to sell at the back table. Our GTD|Connect subscription service we're launching in the fall may begin to address that. - David

Posted by: David Allen at July 6, 2005 09:57 PM

Just a thought, but I am pleased with the correlation that GTD has with the OZ Principle. http://www.ozprinciple.com/ I participated in the Oz Principle training with my company and was very impressed with the "common sense" approach to personal accountability in an organization. GTD is a perfect extension to the steps of organizational accountability presented in the Oz Principle. Combining the two has already made a big impact with me and my company.

Posted by: Brent at July 7, 2005 01:33 PM

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