Getting Things Done and Presenting to Win

I started reading Getting Things Done by David Allen and found that his approach to planning has a lot in common with Jerry Weissman's Presenting to Win.

According to Allen, when you plan, you want to brainstorm first and then organize your ideas. Weissman preaches that you should think of all things you might want to cover in your presentation and then organize them into logical blocks.

Two books on two different subjects, and yet the path to success is the same in both. Nabokov once said that the entire body of literature has 10 universal stories (love, hatred, betrayal, etc.), and each new book is merely a variation and a combination of those ideas. Drawing a parallel with commonalities in professional, non-fiction books, I would think that when more than one book talks about the same principles, there's a chance that those principles might be universal. When I throw in the fact that each of the two books in question led many people to new heights in their career, there's a good chance that these principles are universal and should be studied and practiced.

I am only one quarter of the way through the book, and the learning has already begun! More to come.