To Do Doing Done: A Creative Approach to Managing Projects and Effectively Finishing What Matters Most

by G. Lynne Snead, Joyce Wycoff

To Do...Doing...Done!: A Creative Approach to Managing Projects and Effectively Finishing What Matters Most focuses on the skills required to manage any project without getting bogged down in conflicts or sidetracked by unexpected changes or developments.
In this book are proven techniques for bringing any project to a successful and satisfying conclusion. The techniques provided in To Do...Doing...Done! are based on Franklin Quest's highly successful Planning for Results seminar, which has boosted the productivity of thousands of employees in corporations across the country, as well as in Europe and Asia.

Genres: Self Help, Business, Nonfiction, Productivity, Personal Development

255 pages, Paperback

First published February 18, 1997

Reviews

[Scott Hayden]

5 Stars because I know for sure I'll be referencing it repeatedly. I love the values-based approach. Many useful tools also provided.
Some of it's references to software are outdated, but the bulk of the book is about how to manage yourself, not software. Software is no substitute for knowing your own values and discerning the alignment of your values to potential projects.

[Joyce]

Lynne Snead is the person who started Franklin/Covey's project management program and this book represents the simple, effective system she developed to help anyone become more effective at what really matters. I was delighted to get the opportunity to co-author this book with Lynne. We hope you enjoy it.

[Alexandra]

Interesting book with lots of good ideas about organization and project management. However, the reason I am giving this only three stars is that I think it would be a better book if taken along with a class. Lots of hands on examples and activities, which are great, but the message would have been hammered home better if used alongside a class or workshop.

[Terry]

This is my favorite book for small scale project management. By that I mean the sorts of projects an individual might take on ... schoolwork, multi-day projects at work, and so forth. This is NOT the book for large scale team project management.

[Asungushe B.]

The book was collecting dust until I plucked the courage to read it. I am glad I did. Usually management books bore you and makes you feel incompetent. Enter "To do doing done". This book exceeded my expectations. It is warm and friendly, very practical to disorganized folks...... Full of anecdotes, examples, charts, flows that do not bog you down but help you assimilate the discussed topics. Exit "Disorganized me".

[Juanita Ray]

Read it more than once. That simply tells you everything. At the time I was too busy to read or get organized. I was an Industrial and Commercial (ICI) Realtor in Canada and received a tree a day in my inbox and two more digitally.
If you find yourself responding to chaos, this book will teach you how to control it. This book focuses on the skills required to bring your sidetracked focus to a skidding stop.

[Tiffany]

Well I didn't quite finish it. After renewing it 3 times I figured it wasn't going to happen. I think it's a good book and can be useful if you're actually going to put their system to use. I don't think I have enough "projects" to really do what they do. I think it may be better for work type projects, and not necessarily the home type projects I should be doing. I do plan, however, to implement some of the techniques that they taught so I'm still happy I read what I did.

[Mosferw]

This book is simple straight forward road map toward selecting, managing personal project and taking them to success.
I recommend it to those who wants to review their personal plans, and life goals and organize them according to its priority and relevance to their values.

[Cortney]

I never actually finished reading this whole book, but it has a lot of good ideas and I've used several in my daily planning now for years. It's kind of a Franklin Covey promo.

[Nikki]

Connor made fun of me every time he saw me reading this. And I don't blame him. But jokes on him because I enjoyed this way more than anyone should.

This book was published in 1997 and is essentially an advert for the Franklin daily planner but there's still much to be learned if you liked productivity systems (like myself).

[David Hyder]

I had forgotten about this book. I was looking in my business library for books on project management for small projects and turned this one up. I Han made many marginalia when I started. I must have concluded then that my circumstances did not fit the book. Now I am managing a lot of small projects and the book is far more useful.

[Lauren]

This was a great book with a wealth of information about managing projects. I would love to someday be a project manager, so this will definitely help me out in the future, and something I can reference in my day-to-day work life!

[Ben Franklin]

Kind of dated. I liked the practical section, but won’t really use it. The first three or four chapters were very helpful, and make it a worthwhile addition to my library

[Derek Van]

Even though it was written in 1997, there are still a number of ideas that are relevant today.

[Simon]

I think that there are better project management books out there. I think this will be my last Franklin Covey book for awhile.

[Dianne Oliver]

good review for me, some good filing ideas for my planner.

[Sandheep Vurukkara]

A book to help you plan your time and goals. It isn't so crisp and interesting to read!

[Gail]

This is a re-read