不再充满危急，搞定一切
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Optimum Advisory公司的总监Andrew Ward，管理着企业和人事，是业务发展顾问和业余GTD®的传道者。他在国内外的大中小企业工作；在英国和美国工作的行业领域包括咨询，金融服务，电信和饼干等。Andrew毕业于牛津大学，拥有伦敦商学院的工商管理硕士学位。他是认证的NLP执业者，忠实GTD实践者和Next Action
Associates的前客户。
Roald Dahl的BFG 非常满意地告诉Sophie，“不要被话语左右”。当David为他的系统和畅销书起名为“Getting Things
Done®”时，他有将这一点铭记在心。这是10年前GTD吸引我的原因。
这句话的简单性和直接性是10年前当我在“每位经理必读的10本书”中找到的。在书单上的这些书中，它的标题最具服力，而当时我正在纠结一些事 - 找到更好的方式去完成我想要的和需要的。从此这句话成了我每天都在用的名言。
如果生活很简单，那么“搞定™”就不会在10年前让很多人产生共鸣。在我职业生涯的早期 - 可能是在企业工作中的那段时间 - 生活相对简单; 我没有这么多的选择。我的重点主要集中在工作上，我的责任相对较小，我的工作量合理地由其他人管理。
但是当我遇到GTD时，是在我的生活非常复杂的时期。一方面，生活变得更加复杂。我成立了自己的家庭，同时我还是一名大学校长。在工作中，我有团队需要去领导和支持。我需要设定优先级，确定目标和管理工作量。我的工作范围和依靠我的人数已经爆炸，他们的期望也是如此。生活变得复杂得多，而且我必须在数量和重要性上做出更大的选择。
与此同时，我正在经历我的迪尔伯特阶段，一边倍感压力，一边被公司让人才和热情的员工能够完成工作而惊讶到。我在MBA学习过战略，财务和市场营销。但是，我们没有学到的是为什么会有这么多的时间和精力似乎被浪费在非常简单的东西上。
我当时在寻找答案。我研究过NLP，生产力，企业效能和行为科学。我甚至改变了职业生涯，从事人力资源和企业发展工作。但是，我所学到的所有东西，搞定™作为一本书，一个系统和一种管理我们生活的方式，已被证明是最有实践性，最具相关性和最有用的方法论，这是我在过去10年中一直在努力并传播的东西。
GTD系统会产生出很多共鸣，更重要的是，它确实有效; 一些我最喜欢的方面是下一步行动，捕捉和检视的习惯，工作流程和自然规划模型。但是最吸引人的是 – 作为一名业余GTD实践者 – 它很容易“将事情完成”。
这三个简单的词，当然不会让你觉得无聊，但在讨论愿景，策略和目标时，却非常强大，经常被人遗忘。博西迪和查兰在他们的著作“执行”中强调了它是所有企业能力中最关键的。它是大多数领导力模型的核心。现在，这也是我在招聘时首先要考虑的事情 - 完成任务的能力。
托尼罗宾斯谈论转化词汇的力量：“通过改变你的习惯词汇......你可以瞬间改变你的思维方式，你的感受以及你的生活方式。”让我的日常词汇成为搞定事情的一部分肯定会对改变你的产生力。对于我所从事的团队来说，这已经成为了一个口头禅。这是一个强大的，有潜在变革意义的短语，我相信BFG会很高兴。
English Version
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Not
Gobblefunking, Just Getting Things Done
Andrew Ward, Director of Optimum Advisory,
is a business and HR leader, organisation development consultant, and amateur
GTD® evangelist. He has worked in and for organisations large and small,
multinational and domestic, in the UK and US and in industries including
consulting, financial services, telecoms and biscuits. Andrew is a
graduate of the University of Oxford and has an MBA from London Business
School. He is a certified NLP Practitioner, long-time GTD user and former
client of Next Action Associates.
Roald Dahl’s BFG famously tells Sophie,
‘don’t
gobblefunk
around with words.’ David Allen certainly took that to heart when he came up
with the name for his system and bestseller – Getting Things Done®. It’s what
drew me to GTD 10 years ago.
The simplicity and directness of that
phrase is what first drew me to the book 10 years ago when I came across it on
a list of ’10 Books Every Manager Should Read’. Of the books on the list,
it was the one whose title spoke most powerfully to what I was wrestling with –
finding better ways to get done what I wanted and needed to. It’s become a
phrase I use every day.
“Getting things done” wouldn’t have
resonated nearly as strongly 10 years earlier when life was simpler. In those
days, early in my career – probably in many corporate careers then if not so
much anymore – life was relatively straightforward; I didn’t have all that many
choices to make. My focus was mostly on work, my responsibilities were
relatively narrow, and my workload reasonably well managed by others.
But by the time I came across GTD, things
had become very different. For one thing, life had got way more complicated. I
owned a home. I had a family. I was a College Governor. At work I had teams to
lead and support. I was the one setting priorities, defining goals and managing
workloads. The scope of my work and the number of people relying on me had
exploded and so had their expectations. Life had become much much more
complicated and the choices I was having to make far greater in number and
importance.
At the same time I was going through my
Dilbert phase getting increasingly frustrated with, but also fascinated by, how
hard organisations made it for talented, enthusiastic people to get things
done. I’d studied strategy, finance and marketing in my MBA. But what we
weren’t taught and most intrigued me, as it does Scott Adams, is why so much
time and effort seemed to be wasted on often very simple stuff.
