New David Allen Book

[JackC]

I see that DA has been busy recently.

http://www.amazon.com/Making-All-Wor...762843&sr=8-11

On sale end of 2008.

[Brent]

Cool! I wonder when it'll be out. The current scheduled publication date according to Amazon is December 2008, but I understand Amazon often sets the date to the end of the year if they haven't received a specific publication date yet. So it could be any time in the coming year.

I also wonder if this will cover the higher-level stuff, as David has said the original GTD book didn't cover very much of that.

[DavidAllen]

Brent,

Making It All Work is about the two aspects of control and perspective, how GTD really works with both, and how they are tied together. Essentially the roadmap to use when things grab your attention, how to most effectively then put the right kind of attention on them. That includes paying heed to the more subtle "incompletions" at the higher altitudes. Because you need control first, those aspects were the first that GTDers really took to. But the perspective piece (the essence of prioritizing) is still critical for "mind like water." It's actually all in Chapter 3 of the first book, but the new one will flesh all that out quite a bit more...

David

[smithdoug]

Fantastic! I have a copy on pre-order, but no publication date is projected. Any rough idea when we might expect it?

[TesTeq]

But the perspective piece (the essence of prioritizing) is still critical for "mind like water." It's actually all in Chapter 3 of the first book, but the new one will flesh all that out quite a bit more...

I agree that prioritizing is the element which requires deeper discussion because many GTD beginners are misled by the lack of the Next Action / Project list priorities.

[Brent]

Brent,

Making It All Work is about the two aspects of control and perspective, how GTD really works with both, and how they are tied together. Essentially the roadmap to use when things grab your attention, how to most effectively then put the right kind of attention on them. That includes paying heed to the more subtle "incompletions" at the higher altitudes. Because you need control first, those aspects were the first that GTDers really took to. But the perspective piece (the essence of prioritizing) is still critical for "mind like water." It's actually all in Chapter 3 of the first book, but the new one will flesh all that out quite a bit more...

David

Excellent! That wasn't meant as a dig at the book; just that the higher altitudes weren't in the original book in as much detail as the lower altitudes. Very glad to hear that you're addressing higher altitudes in more detail. You rock!

[John Forrister]

This time Amazon is on target. David's new book Making It All Work will be available in December.

You know how time flies, so December will here in a blink. Looking forward to it . . .

-- John

[Barb]

David,

I hope you'll make your new book available in the Amazon Kindle format. Just fyi, I just re-bought the original book...just so I could have it on my Kindle!

P.S. If you don't have one of these things, you don't know what you're missing!

[Brent]

Ooooh, agreed. I'm a Kindler, too. Fantastic for those odd moments in lines, etc.

[Barb]

More Kindling...

Brent, do you find that you are also reading faster? Maybe it's the ability to change the font size or just easier to keep my place on the page, but I find I'm reading about 2X faster! If I had to that the fact that I'm reading in tiny snippets of time, I'm clocking in at 3x!