TMBA486: The Re-Readables: Getting Things Done
Tropical MBA: Entrepreneurship & Founder Lifestyle
Dan Andrews; Ian Schoen
4.9 • 527 Ratings
🗓️ 28 March 2019
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
One of our favorite podcasts to listen to lately is The Re-Watchables, a series presented by The Ringer, where the hosts look back on legendary films.
They discuss why these movies had such an impact, what parts have aged the best and worst, and other categories which they use to assess what has made these films stand the test of time.
We thought it would be fun to talk about some of our favorite books in a similar light. This week, we are looking back at the single most important book we read in our business.
Getting Things Done by David Allen represented a paradigm shift in the early 2000s, and it was the first book that was truly written for information and knowledge workers.
On today's podcast, we are revisiting Getting Things Done, talking about why that book was so influential, and whether the ideas in that book are still as relevant as they were at the time it was released.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, podcast, listener. |
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| 0:09.7 | you are joined by thousands of entrepreneurs from all around the globe seeking to grow better, |
| 0:14.9 | more profitable, location independent businesses. |
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| 0:23.2 | out tropical MBA.com. |
| 0:33.2 | Hey, oh, welcome back to the pod, and I want to welcome you to a special new format for today's |
| 0:40.2 | episode. I want to hear what you think about this one. Today's format comes from two places. |
| 0:45.1 | Number one, if you heard a few weeks back, I've just been disappointed by the business books, |
| 0:50.2 | the new business books I've been reading. I really wanted to up my game last year. |
| 0:54.4 | I bought a bunch of books. It's like, man, a lot of these books just aren't delivering for me. |
| 0:58.9 | And two, a really cool podcast I've been listening to that's inspired me to take a trip down |
| 1:03.6 | memory lane with the boss man, take a look at some of the ideas that we still use on a daily |
| 1:09.1 | basis in our business. So the show that got me thinking about |
| 1:13.3 | this is made by Bill Simmons's company, The Ringer. It's called The Rewatchables. So you should check |
| 1:18.7 | out this pot. Every week, they basically pull up a legendary film like The Godfather or Jaws and to |
| 1:24.0 | discuss why these movies made such an impact and what parts have aged the best |
| 1:29.0 | and age the worst. And they also analyze them across a broad range of categories. |
| 1:34.2 | I thought this would work great for business people. In fact, like, it's not just an entertainment |
| 1:39.1 | thing. Like, these ideas are actually changing the way we run our business. So I thought it would be cool to do this for |
| 1:44.9 | some books that we feel are classics and have stood the test of time in the business space. |
| 1:50.5 | So as a hat tip to the folks over at the ringer, we are going to call this new occasional series |
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