http://www.bizbookclub.net redefining leadership.... one book chapter at a time. Thu, 19 Aug 2010 23:36:08 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Finally, we can check-off chapter 3.  Yay! Another new member this week, Mike Nelson.  All the nagging over the last few months has finally paid off :) We spent a majority of the time this week on applying GTD project methodology for an internal super-secret internal initiative so ... http://www.bizbookclub.net/meeting-notes-for-august-17th/ Welcome to our newest member, Elizabeth! this time we talked mostly about the vision/outcome stage of GTP’s project planning model.  Of course when Ganesh is involved and we are talking about vision, Steve Jobs comes up several times in various contexts.  We all agreed that 4 or 5 failures ... http://www.bizbookclub.net/meeting-notes-for-august-3rd/ We had lively and insightful discussion today, mostly focused on the “Purpose” stage of the GTP project planning model. We spent some time mocking the start-up culture of the late 90s and how most companies operated without any trace of purpose for a business i.e. no one seemed ... http://www.bizbookclub.net/meeting-notes-for-june-16th/ It seems like the end is near… at least for chapter 2! We discussed the six-level model for reviewing your own work which is popular among the geek circles.  The model has 6-levels starting from the runway height to 50,000+ feet level. As expected the topic raised multiple ... http://www.bizbookclub.net/meeting-notes-for-march-16th/ We moved on to the Review and Do stages of the 5-stages of GTD workflow yesterday.  One of my weakest areas in the whole GTD system is being able to concentrate at the project level.  I can do a pretty good job of handling things at the task-level.  We can ... http://www.bizbookclub.net/meeting-notes-for-march-2nd/ We had several gatherings over the last couple months where we focused on the first half of chapter 2 (Collect –> Process –> Organize).  We had some lively conversations on the topic of “Getting Things Done” and a lot more on totally tangential topics like creativity, etc. Some highlights: ... http://www.bizbookclub.net/summary-of-meetings-so-far-this-year/ Here’s the link: Chapter 2: Getting Control of Your Life http://www.bizbookclub.net/gtp-mindmap-for-chapter-2-is-now-ready/ We continued our discussion on the fundamentals of GTD and actually breezed through the last section (mostly because Larry was not there :) ) There was more reinforcement about why it is a really bad idea to keep things on one’s brain as opposed to a reliable documenting system ... http://www.bizbookclub.net/august-5th-session-chapter-1-the-process/ 5” x 8” yellow ruled pads are the best collection tools (as heard on David Allen’s own podcast series) Write just 1 item per page and throw it in your designated inbox (in David Allen’s own words: “don’t feel sorry for the tree – ... http://www.bizbookclub.net/july-15th-sessions-gtd-chapter-1-continued/ We had an auspicious beginning for the new book “Getting Things Done”.  As we went over the problem, promise and principles behind GTD, we talked about several personal examples including a reminder for hair-cut :) We spent quite a bit of time on the concept of “Mind like water” ... http://www.bizbookclub.net/july-1st-session-notes-gtd-chapter-1/