David Allen (born December 28, 1945) is the best known productivity consultant as the creator of the time management method known as "Getting Things Done".
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He grew up in Shreveport, Louisiana where he acted and won the state championship in debate. She attended New College, now New College of Florida, in Sarasota, Florida, and completed her undergraduate work in American history at the University of California, Berkeley. After graduating school, he started using heroin and instituted briefly. His career path includes work as a magician, waiter, karate teacher, landscaper, vitamin distributor, glass lath operator, travel agent, gas station manager, U-Haul dealer, moped seller, restaurant chef, personal growth coach, and travel agency managers. He is a minister ordained with the Spiritual Mind-Awareness Movement. He claimed to have 35 professions before the age of 35. He began applying his perspective on productivity with business in the 1980s when he was awarded a contract to design a program for executives and managers at Lockheed.
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He is the founder of David Allen Company, an executive training firm using the "Getting Things Done" methodology. David Allen Company presenter, not Allen, regularly provides a one-day public seminar on methodology, and Allen himself occasionally gives talks or sessions.
Allen is also one of the founders of Actioneer, a company specializing in productivity tools for PalmPilot.
Publications and habitats
Allen has written three books: Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity , which describes his productivity program; Ready for Anything: 52 Principles of Productivity for Work and Life , a collection of bulletin articles he writes; Make It All Work: Win in the Game of Work and Business of Life , a follow-up for the first book. In 2015 David Allen also wrote a new updated version of Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity . He lives in Ojai, California with his fourth wife, Kathryn, In May 2014 they moved to Amsterdam in the Netherlands.
Bibliography
- Allen, David (2001). Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity . New York: Putnam Penguin. ISBN 978-0-14-200028-1.
- Allen, David (2003). Ready for Anything: 52 Productivity Principles for Work and Life . New York: Viking Books. ISBN: 978-0-14-303454-4.
- Allen, David (2008). Make it All Work: Win in Game of Work and Business of Life . New York: Viking Adults. ISBN: 978-0-67-001995-3.
- Allen, David (2015). Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity (revised edition) . New York: Penguin Books. ISBN 978-0-14-312656-0. Ã,
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Further reading
- Beardsley, David. (April 1998) "Do not Manage Time, Manage Yourself." Quick Company. Issue 14, p. 64.
- Fallows, James. (July/August 2004) "Organize Your Life!" Monthly Atlantic. Vol. 294, No. 1, pp.Ã, 171-2.
- Wolves, Gary. September 25, 2007 Getting Things Done Master David Allen and His Cult of Hyperefficiency Wired Ã,: 15.10
External links
- David Allen Company's website
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