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Higher Level Open Loops
andyc | Nov 23 2006
Folks Thanks to Merlin's Podcasts, I've finally realized why I've been procastinating all over the place for the last few months. The runway is sorted. The process works pretty well down there. Somewhere between there and 40,000 feet it all goes wrong. It doesn't help that the company I work for got acquired this year. I know what job I'm going to be doing, but there's a lot of paperwork to be done before it happens. But the change of role brings lots of 10, 20 and 30,000 feet questions up. I don't even know what the questions are, let alone the answers. Does anyone have any good triggers for questions to ask, and thought processes, at the higher levels? 13 Comments
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 In one of the Productive...Submitted by lydgate on December 11, 2006 - 1:25am.
Flexiblefine;6927 wrote:
Yeah, as great as GTD is this particular podcast made me lose a little respect for Allen. He undoubtedly was talking about Sun-Tzu's Art of War. I don't remember the particular part he's talking about in this classic, but there are many (and very different) translations, so he could be correct. Almost certainly Sun-tzu isn't talking about procrastination -- he's talking about fear or something. It's really a technical military book about how to wage war in 6th century BC China. Some of it is philosophical, knowing yourself and enemy type stuff, which has been translated into business strategy, etc. Other parts are about how exactly to fight on different terrains, so obviously not much to do with GTD, unless your life involves infantry-type combat without modern weapons. » POSTED IN:
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