David Allen (author)
{{short description|American author and productivity consultant (born 1945)}}
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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 Shreveport, Louisiana where he acted and won a state championship in debate.{{cite web|url=https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2004/07/organize-your-life/303455/|title=Organize Your Life!|work=The Atlantic|date=July 1, 2004}} 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.Keith H. Hammonds, April 30, 2000. [https://www.fastcompany.com/40384/you-can-do-anything-not-everything "You can do anything – but not everything"] Fast Company, retrieved April 8, 2010
After graduate school, Allen began using heroin and was briefly institutionalized.Wolf, Gary. September 25, 2007 [https://www.wired.com/2007/09/ff-allen/ Getting Things Done Guru David Allen and His Cult of Hyperefficiency] Wired : 15.10 He is an ordained minister with the Movement of Spiritual Inner Awareness.Jack Coats, 2000. [http://www.msia.org/newdayherald/archives/7497-david-allen-ministering-to-the-business-community "David Allen – Ministering to the Business Community"] The New Day Herald online retrieved January 18, 2008Jack Coats, 2000. [http://www.msia.org/newdayherald/archives/7496-getting-things-done "Getting Things Done: David Allen's Keys to Completion"] The New Day Herald online retrieved October 24, 2007 He claims to have had 35 professions before age 35.David E. Williams, February 9, 2007 [http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/internet/02/09/david.allen/index.html Cutting through the clutter to get things done] CNN He began applying his perspective on productivity with businesses in the 1980s when he began consulting at Lockheed's human resources department.{{Cite magazine|url=https://www.wired.com/2007/09/ff-allen/|title=Getting Things Done Guru David Allen and His Cult of Hyperefficiency|first=Gary|last=Wolf|magazine=Wired |via=www.wired.com}}
Publications and habitat
Allen has written three books: Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity,{{Cite book |last=Allen |first=David |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/44868871 |title=Getting things done : the art of stress-free productivity |date=2001 |publisher=Viking |isbn=0-670-88906-7 |location=New York |oclc=44868871}} which describes his productivity program; Ready for Anything: 52 Productivity Principles for Work and Life,{{Cite book |last=Allen |first=David |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1129684569 |title=Ready for anything : 52 productivity principles for work and life |date=2011 |isbn=978-1-4055-1075-2 |location=London |publisher=Little, Brown Book Group |oclc=1129684569}} 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|date=February 2024}}
In 2024, David Allen has co-authored Team: Getting Things Done with Others on how to work effectively in groups using GTD Principles.{{Cite book |last1=Allen |first1=David |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CevFEAAAQBAJ |title=Team: Getting Things Done with Others |last2=Lamont |first2=Edward |date=2024-05-21 |publisher=Penguin |isbn=978-0-593-65290-9 |language=en}}
Personal life
Allen lived in Ojai, California with his fourth wife, Kathryn. In 2014, they moved to Amsterdam in the Netherlands.{{Cite web|url=https://www.dutchnews.nl/2024/01/once-here-we-started-falling-in-love-with-amsterdam-even-more/|title="Once here, we started falling in love with Amsterdam even more"|first=Robin|last=Pascoe|date=January 17, 2024|website=DutchNews.nl}}
Bibliography
- {{cite book | author=Allen, David | title=Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity | location=New York | publisher=Penguin Putnam | year=2001 | isbn=978-0-14-200028-1 | url-access=registration | url=https://archive.org/details/gettingthingsdon00alle }}{{Citation needed|date=February 2024}}
- {{cite book | author=Allen, David | title=Ready for Anything: 52 Productivity Principles for Work and Life | url=https://archive.org/details/readyforanything00alle | url-access=registration | location=New York | publisher=Viking Books | year=2003 | isbn=978-0-14-303454-4}}{{Citation needed|date=February 2024}}
- {{cite book | author=Allen, David | title=Making It All Work: Winning at the Game of Work and Business of Life | url=https://archive.org/details/makingitallworkw0000alle | url-access=registration | location=New York | publisher=Viking Adult | year=2008 | isbn= 978-0-67-001995-3}}{{Citation needed|date=February 2024}}
- {{cite book | author=Allen, David | title=Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity | location=New York | publisher=Penguin Books | year=2015 | isbn=978-0-14-312656-0| edition=revised }}{{Citation needed|date=February 2024}}
References
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Further reading
- Beardsley, David. (April 1998) "[https://www.fastcompany.com/33961/dont-manage-time-manage-yourself Don't Manage Time, Manage Yourself]." Fast Company. Issue 14, p. 64.
- Fallows, James. (July/August 2004) "[https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2004/07/organize-your-life/303455/ Organize Your Life!]." Atlantic Monthly. Vol. 294, No. 1, pp. 171–2.
- Wolf, Gary. September 25, 2007 [https://www.wired.com/2007/09/ff-allen/ Getting Things Done Guru David Allen and His Cult of Hyperefficiency] Wired : 15.10
External links
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- [https://gettingthingsdone.com/ The David Allen Company website]
- [https://cruciallearning.com/getting-things-done/ Crucial Learning's Getting Things Done course]
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