Review of
Get
It Done: 4 Simple Strategies to Stop Procrastinating and get the Right Things
Done, by Joel Gardner ISBN 9781973335214
Four out of five stars
This is a book
that is loaded with good advice, yet none is original or imaginative. The
premises are those of the modern worker, your being faced with a high level of
work that needs to be done, yet not enough time to do it. Furthermore, there
always appears to be an unlimited supply of potential distractors that will pop
up and destroy your necessary focus.
The author is
sensible in constantly stating that the tactics he puts forward are simple in
principle, although not necessarily simple in practice. For example, if you are
attempting to work and someone chooses to constantly interrupt you. The simple
solution is to tell them to leave you alone, making your requests increasingly
forceful if they do not respond in the appropriate way. However, it not easy to
do if the person is your superior.
Another simple
to state, hard to practice tactic is the overcoming of fear, especially when starting
on a new project or being transferred to a new team. As many of the recent
revelations of sexual harassment have demonstrated, being fearful is in many
cases not unwarranted, making personal courage essential.
This is in many
ways a self-help book in both tone and content. If you need something to rev
your performance jets, then you will find this book worthy. However, you will
not find it deep.
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