Background
Allen, David Ratcliff was born on December 28, 1945 in Jonesboro, Louisiana, United States. Son of Gordon Emmet Allen and Miriam Allen (Foster) Drummond.
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In today's world of exponentially increased communication and responsibility, yesterday's methods for staying on top just don't work. Veteran management consultant and trainer David Allen recognizes that "time management" is useless the minute your schedule is interrupted; "setting priorities" isn't relevant when your e-mail is down; "procrastination solutions" won't help if your goals aren't clear. Allen's premise is simple: our ability to be productive is directly proportional to our ability to relax. Only when our minds are clear and our thoughts are organized can we achieve stress-free productivity and unleash our creative potential. He teaches us how to: • Apply the "do it, delegate it, defer it, drop it" rule to get your in-box empty • Reassess goals and stay focused in changing situations • Overcome feelings of confusion, anxiety, and being overwhelmed • Feel fine about what you're not doing From core principles to proven tricks, Getting Things Done has the potential to transform the way you work -- and the way you experience work. At any level of implementation, David Allen's entertaining and thought-provoking advice shows you how to pick up the pace without wearing yourself down.
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"The personal productivity guru" (Fast Company) delivers powerful methods that vastly increase your efficiency and creative results at work and in life. In today's world, yesterday's methods just don't work. In Getting Things Done, veteran coach and management consultant David Allen shares the breakthrough methods for stress-free performance that he has introduced to tens of thousands of people across the country. Allen's premise is simple: our productivity is directly proportional to our ability to relax. Only when our minds are clear and our thoughts are organized can we achieve effective productivity and unleash our creative potential. In Getting Things Done, Allen shows how to: - Apply the "do it, delegate it, defer it, drop it" rule to get your in-box to empty - Reassess goals and stay focused in changing situations - Plan projects as well as get them unstuck - Overcome feelings of confusion, anxiety, and being overwhelmed - Feel fine about what you're not doing. From core principles to proven tricks, Getting Things Done can transform the way you work, showing you how to pick up the pace without wearing yourself down.
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Discover David Allen's powerful productivity principles and vastly increase your ability to work better, not harder -- every day. The "guru of personal productivity" -- Fast Company -- asks listeners what's holding them back and shows how all of us can be "ready for anything" -- with a clear mind, a clear deck, and clear intentions. Ready for Anything offers you ways to immediately: • Clear your head for creativity • Focus your attention • Create structures that work • Take action to get things moving Allen's simple yet powerful principles help us master the mental game of productivity -- what he calls "managing your mind, not your time." In motivational, bite-size lessons, we learn how to bring the calm focus of the martial artist to the onslaught of choices, decisions, and new circumstances we are faced with daily. Each principle -- from "speed up by slowing down" to "the value of a future goal is the present change it fosters" -- encourages us to think in fresh ways and to take action in order to achieve more relaxed control, ease, and fun in all our activities. With wit, inspiration, and know-how, Ready for Anything shows us how to make things happen with less effort, stress, and ineffectiveness, and lots more energy, creativity, and clarity. This is the perfect audiobook for anyone wanting to work and live at their very best.
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As the second volume of the trilogy of GTD time management of David Allen, this book is the new one of the management master David Allen about GTD. GTD time management system has been recognized world-wide as the best time management tool.
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Allen, David Ratcliff was born on December 28, 1945 in Jonesboro, Louisiana, United States. Son of Gordon Emmet Allen and Miriam Allen (Foster) Drummond.
Bachelor, New College, Sarasota, Florida, 1968.
He went to college at New College, now New College of Florida, in Sarasota, Florida, and did graduate work in American history at University of California, Berkeley. After graduate school, he began using heroin and was briefly institutionalized. His career path has included jobs as a magician, waiter, karate teacher, landscaper, vitamin distributor, glass-blowing lathe operator, travel agent, gas station manager, U-Haul dealer, moped salesman, restaurant cook, personal growth trainer, manager of a lawn service company, and manager of a travel agency.
He claims to have had 35 professions before age 35. 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. His "Getting Things Done" method is part of his coaching efforts.
He was also one of the founders of Actioneer, Inc., a company specializing in productivity tools for the Palm Pilot. David Allen Company presenters, not Allen, regularly give one-day public seminars on Allen's Getting Things Done methodology, which cost approximately $595. Allen himself gives public seminars only occasionally, which cost approximately $995.
In 2007, such a seminar from Allen himself went for $595 per person or $20,000 per corporate training session.
("The personal productivity guru" (Fast Company) delivers ...)
(As the second volume of the trilogy of GTD time managemen...)
(In today's world of exponentially increased communication...)
(Discover David Allen's powerful productivity principles a...)
(In this blockbuster bestseller, the guru of personal prod...)
(Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity ...)
(Getting Things Done : The Art of Stress-Free Productivity...)
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He is an ordained minister with the Movement of Spiritual Inner Awareness.
Married Kathryn Allen.