Comments on: 9 Reasons Why Getting Things Done Sucks!

By: Elias

Elias — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 05:45:23 +0000

Good article… I’m just getting into the whole GTD so this is a good resource to find some infos. Thanks.

By: James

James — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 15:00:42 +0000

Thanks for the comment Farley. I would have to agree with you about David Allen’s reaction to the popularity of his system. Just reading the first couple of chapters of his new book, Making It All Work, it’s almost as though he always knew it was going to be a success. He has every right to take such a Kool Aid fueled view because he’s been able to make a lot of money out of it and he needs to keep pulling in potential customers. But even so, I think more people have got caught up in the marketing than in the actual system.

By: Farley Marlen

Farley Marlen — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 02:06:28 +0000

The success of GTD absolutely mystifies me, and, I have to suspect, mystified David Allen himself at first (though at this point he’s no doubt drunk his own Kool Aid). The only thing useful about the system is the intelligence of the people who have used it, meaning they’ve attached their own intelligence to making it work themselves. Personally, I think the emperor has no clothes and I would never, ever, ever recommend it for anyone.

I think he has one (one!) good suggestion, and it goes like this: the best thing about organizing systems is to use tricks like the equivalent of putting things in front of your door before you go to bed if you can’t afford to leave the house without them in the morning. But then people treat his system the opposite way like it’s far from a practical trick, like it’s some actual system that was, as someone above mentioned, brought down from the mountain. Unless I’m missing a lot of IQ points, it’s not.

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