David Allen (author)
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David Allen | |
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Born | December 28, 1945 |
Alma mater | New College University of California, Berkeley |
Occupation(s) | Management consultant and author |
Spouse | Kathryn[1] |
Website | gettingthingsdone |
David Allen (born December 28, 1945) is an American author and productivity consultant. He created the time management method Getting Things Done.
Careers
Allen grew up in
After graduate school, Allen began using heroin and was briefly institutionalized.[3] He is an ordained minister with the Movement of Spiritual Inner Awareness.[4][5] He claims to have had 35 professions before age 35.[6] He began applying his perspective on productivity with businesses in the 1980s when he was awarded a contract to design a program for executives and managers at Lockheed.[citation needed]
Companies founded
He is the founder of the David Allen Company, an executive coaching firm using his "Getting Things Done" methodology. David Allen Company presenters, not Allen, regularly give one-day public seminars on the methodology, and Allen himself occasionally gives lectures or sessions. Allen has also licensed GTD to Crucial Learning, a learning company that offers a Getting Things Done course in a variety of formats.
Publications and habitat
Allen has written three books: Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity,[8] which describes his productivity program; Ready for Anything: 52 Productivity Principles for Work and Life,[9] a collection of newsletter articles he has written; Making It All Work: Winning at the Game of Work and Business of Life, a follow-up to his first book. In 2015, he also wrote a new updated version of Getting Things Done: the Art of Stress-Free Productivity.[citation needed]
Personal Life
Allen lived in Ojai, California with his fourth wife, Kathryn.[1] In 2014, they moved to Amsterdam in the Netherlands.[citation needed]
Bibliography
- Allen, David (2001). Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity. New York: Penguin Putnam. ]
- Allen, David (2003). Ready for Anything: 52 Productivity Principles for Work and Life. New York: Viking Books. ]
- Allen, David (2008). Making It All Work: Winning at the Game of Work and Business of Life. New York: Viking Adult. ]
- Allen, David (2015). Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity (revised ed.). New York: Penguin Books. ]
References
- ^ a b Paul Keegan, June 21, 2007 How David Allen mastered getting things doneBusiness 2.0
- ^ Keith H. Hammonds, April 30, 2000. "You can do anything – but not everything" Fast Company, retrieved April 8, 2010
- ^ Wolf, Gary. September 25, 2007 Getting Things Done Guru David Allen and His Cult of Hyperefficiency Wired : 15.10
- ^ Jack Coats, 2000. "David Allen – Ministering to the Business Community" The New Day Herald online retrieved January 18, 2008
- ^ Jack Coats, 2000. "Getting Things Done: David Allen's Keys to Completion" The New Day Herald online retrieved October 24, 2007
- ^ David E. Williams, February 9, 2007 Cutting through the clutter to get things done CNN
- ^ Crucial Learning. "Getting Things Done" Crucial Learning retrieved September 21, 2022
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Further reading
- Beardsley, David. (April 1998) "Don't Manage Time, Manage Yourself." Fast Company. Issue 14, p. 64.
- Fallows, James. (July/August 2004) "Organize Your Life!." Atlantic Monthly. Vol. 294, No. 1, pp. 171–2.
- Wolf, Gary. September 25, 2007 Getting Things Done Guru David Allen and His Cult of Hyperefficiency Wired : 15.10