CatReader's Reviews > Traction: Get a Grip on Your Business

In a lot of ways, traction is to business productivity and success as Dave Allen's Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity is to personal productivity and success. Each system has its own jargon-laden language, its defined sequence of doing things, and promises of amazing results if the system is faithfully followed. Not coincidentally, each book is written by a person who made a career out of business and/or personal consulting, with the book being used as an evangelizing tool to people or organizations who may or may not be future clients.

That being said, Traction's advice is generally quite good. It's crucial in a business to know what your core values are, to ensure the right people are in the right roles (both from an alignment and skill perspective), and to regularly and iteratively determine your organizational/personal goals and check whether you're making good progress toward them (and if they're still worth pursuing).

My statistics:
Book 151 for 2024
Book 1754 cumulatively