David Allen (born December 28, 1945) is an American author and productivity consultant. He created the time management method Getting Things Done.
David Allen | |
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 David Allen in 2015. | |
| Born | December 28, 1945 |
| Alma mater | New College University of California, Berkeley |
| Occupation(s) | Management consultant and author |
| Spouse | Kathryn[1] |
| Website | gettingthingsdone |
Careers
editAllen grew up in Shreveport, Louisiana where he acted and won a state championship in debate.[2] He attended New College (now New College of Florida) in Sarasota, Florida, and completed graduate work in American history at the University of California, Berkeley.[3]
After graduate school, Allen began using heroin and was briefly institutionalized.[4] He is an ordained minister with the Movement of Spiritual Inner Awareness.[5][6] He claims to have had 35 professions before age 35.[7] He began applying his perspective on productivity with businesses in the 1980s when he began consulting at Lockheed's human resources department.[8]
Publications and habitat
editAllen has written three books: Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity,[9] which describes his productivity program; Ready for Anything: 52 Productivity Principles for Work and Life,[10] 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]
In 2024 David Allen has co-authored Team: Getting Things Done with Others on how to work effectively in groups using GTD Principles.[11]
Personal Life
editAllen lived in Ojai, California with his fourth wife, Kathryn.[1] In 2014, they moved to Amsterdam in the Netherlands.[12]
Bibliography
edit- Allen, David (2001). Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity. New York: Penguin Putnam. ISBN 978-0-14-200028-1.[citation needed]
- Allen, David (2003). Ready for Anything: 52 Productivity Principles for Work and Life. New York: Viking Books. ISBN 978-0-14-303454-4.[citation needed]
- Allen, David (2008). Making It All Work: Winning at the Game of Work and Business of Life. New York: Viking Adult. ISBN 978-0-67-001995-3.[citation needed]
- Allen, David (2015). Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity (revised ed.). New York: Penguin Books. ISBN 978-0-14-312656-0.[citation needed]
References
edit- ^ a b Paul Keegan, June 21, 2007 How David Allen mastered getting things doneBusiness 2.0[dead link]
- ^ "Organize Your Life!". The Atlantic. July 1, 2004.
- ^ 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
- ^ Wolf, Gary. "Getting Things Done Guru David Allen and His Cult of Hyperefficiency". Wired – via www.wired.com.
- ^ Allen, David (2001). Getting things done : the art of stress-free productivity. New York: Viking. ISBN 0-670-88906-7. OCLC 44868871.
- ^ Allen, David (2011). Ready for anything : 52 productivity principles for work and life. London: Little, Brown Book Group. ISBN 978-1-4055-1075-2. OCLC 1129684569.
- ^ Allen, David; Lamont, Edward (May 21, 2024). Team: Getting Things Done with Others. Penguin. ISBN 978-0-593-65290-9.
- ^ Pascoe, Robin (January 17, 2024). ""Once here, we started falling in love with Amsterdam even more"". DutchNews.nl.
Further reading
edit- 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
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