Comments on: Book Review: Two Weeks to a Breakthrough

By: Scot Herrick

Scot Herrick — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 17:32:56 +0000

@Jason Moore - The approach of the book is to do 3-4 things consistently every day. This isn't 50-tasks as such, but rather consistency in your approach. From a GTD perspective, this means these things go on your calendar as something to be done during the day. Then checked off when completed.

By: Jason Moore

Jason Moore — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 18:47:57 +0000

Great book! Just read it. I’m trying to figure how this methodology would apply within the GTD framework. With the numerous larger scale projects (not projects that are comprised of a handful of actions), I think the amount of things to do over two weeks would be overwhelming! For example, an action blitz on Day 11 for 5 projects would yield (yikes) 50 actions!

What are your thoughts on this? Should I apply this methodology to the biggest of projects? Ones that are stuck?

Thanks!

By: Scot Herrick

Scot Herrick — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 14:39:17 +0000

@HL Arledge -
“High Impact Middle Management” is a great book. There are few books that address the subject and I’d highly recommend it as well.

Two Weeks is different in it addresses the ability to do significant transformational work at a personal level for either business or your life. So the context is different. There were great examples of this in the book and in my conversation with her. It is simple — but highly effective.

By: HL Arledge

HL Arledge — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 14:24:20 +0000

Lisa’s “High Impact Middle Management” is one of my all-time favorites, but it sounds like this one provides a strategy I can really use. Next stop, Amazon.

By: lisa haneberg

lisa haneberg — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 04:18:04 +0000

Scot – thanks so much for the kind words (David, too) about Two Weeks. It remains my favorite book and I hope that you and your readers experience many breakthroughs.

By: Scot Herrick

Scot Herrick — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 18:59:55 +0000

@David Zinger - Lisa has some very good books out, indeed. Plus, she is an engaging person who really knows her stuff. I was very happy to both meet her and to review the book.

By: David Zinger

David Zinger — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 15:08:27 +0000

Scot:
Lisa’s book is one of my favorites because you can create a breakthrough and it is clearly articulated. It was working with Lisa’s perspective that transformed my own website and helped me create the employee engagement network.
Thanks for the reminder, it is time to pull the book off of my shelf and create a summer July breakthrough.
David