'Getting Things Done with Others': An Interview with David Allen and Edward Lamont

“I think one of the biggest challenges that teams have right now is that performance is very often much easier to measure than health, and what gets measured gets done, famously. So it's almost like there's a default lean into 'How are we going to perform?' 'What is good performance?' 'Are we there yet?', and there's not enough conversation going on about the physical health, the mental health, the social health, and the spiritual health of the team.”
- David Allen and Edward Lamont in Conversation with Sally Haldorson, Managing Director of Porchlight Book Company
This interview was previously live-streamed on May 22, 2024. David Allen and Edward Lamont, authors of Team: Getting Things Done with Others, were in conversation with Porchlight's Managing Director, Sally Haldorson.
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ABOUT THE BOOK
A groundbreaking book about how to harness the power of collaboration and work most effectively in groups-coauthored by Getting Things Done’s David Allen
When Getting Things Done was published in 2001, it was a game changer. By revealing the principles of healthy high performance at an individual level, it transformed the experience of work and leisure for millions. Twenty years later, it has become clear that the best way to build on that success is at the team level, and one of the most frequently asked questions by dedicated GTD users is how to get an entire team onboard.
By building on the effectiveness of what GTD does for individuals, Team will offer a better way of working in an organization, while simultaneously nourishing a culture that allows individuals’ skills to flourish. Using case studies from some of the world’s largest and most successful companies, Team shows how leaders have employed the principles of team productivity to improve communication, enable effective execution, and reduce stress on team members. These principles are increasingly important in the post-pandemic workplace, where the very nature of how people work together has changed so dramatically.
Team is the most significant addition to the GTD canon since the original, and in offering a roadmap for building a culture of healthy high performance, will be welcomed by readers working in any sized group or organization.
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ABOUT THE AUTHORS
DAVID ALLEN is an international best-selling author who is widely recognized as the world's leading expert on personal and organizational productivity. Time Magazine called his flagship book, Getting Things Done "the definitive business self-help book of the decade."
EDWARD LAMONT is co-founder and Senior Partner of Next Action Associates, the GTD partner for the UK and Ireland. He has over 25 years of experience in executive coaching, training and consulting in the areas of leadership, productivity, and motivation. Since 2009, he has founded and grown the most successful GTD franchises worldwide by using the principles in this book. Before moving into consulting he worked covering commodities markets, and was a freelancer for the Financial Times.
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This interview was produced by Porchlight Book Company with support from Viking.

[@CyberBobCity]

This was great! I’m a long time GTD and David Allen fan and I’m super excited to read this latest book and put it into practice with my team!

[@tl7546]

The webinar was enlightening -lots of teamwork nuggets to digest. Thank you!
As for the book, I cannot yet share my thoughts on it. It's playing a game of hide and seek. Porchlight Book Company shipped it USPS First Class International to Toronto (a whopping $32.50 USD!), and while Amazon Prime could've had it on my doorstep by May 22, 2024, I'm practicing the ancient art of postal patience. Here’s to hoping it arrives before it becomes a vintage collectible!

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35:45 Argument for doing the work on the front end

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59:18 Who owns the team?

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46:32 Define roles

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29:30 Culture defined