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David Allen – amerykański specjalista do spraw produktywności i twórca Getting Things Done – metody zarządzania czasem.

Dorastał w Shreveport w stanie Luizjana. Ukończył New College w Sarasota w stanie Floryda. W ciągu swojej kariery podejmował się wielu zajęć. Pracował między innymi jako iluzjonista, kelner, trener karate, architekt krajobrazu, dystrybutor preparatów witaminowych, operator tokarki do obróbki szkła, agent turystyczny, menedżer stacji benzynowej, przedstawiciel U-Haul, sprzedawca motorowerów, kucharz w restauracji, osobisty trener samorozwoju, menedżer agencji turystycznej. Jest także członkiem nowego ruchu religijnego Movement of Spiritual Inner Awareness. On sam twierdzi, że przed trzydziestym piątym rokiem życia imał się trzydziestu pięciu zawodów. Na kwestię produktywności w biznesie zwrócił uwagę w latach osiemdziesiątych, kiedy otrzymał zlecenie przygotowania programu dla kadry kierowniczej i menedżerskiej firmy Lockheed.

Jest założycielem David Allen Company, specjalizującej się w zarządzaniu czasem, produktywności i szkoleniu kierowników. Autorska metoda Getting Things Done jest składową jego programów szkoleniowych. Allen jest także jednym z założycieli i akcjonariuszy przedsiębiorstwa Actioneer, które tworzy oprogramowanie do zarządzania czasem dla urządzeń Palm.

Allen napisał trzy książki:



Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity – opis autorskiego programu zarządzania czasem.

Polskie wydanie: Sztuka efektywności. Skuteczna realizacja zadań .

Ready for Anything: 52 Productivity Principles for Work and Life.

Polskie wydanie: Gotowi na wszystko. 52 zasady efektywności w pracy i życiu .

Making It All Work: Winning at the Game of Work and Business of Life.

Polskie wydanie: Wszystko pod kontrolą. Gra w pracę i biznes zwany życiem .Allen obecnie mieszka w Ojai w Kalifornii wraz ze swoją czwartą żoną Kathryn. Wikipedia  

✵ 28. Grudzień 1945  •  Natępne imiona דיוויד אלן, Девід Аллен, 戴维·艾伦, 戴維·艾倫, Дэвід Алан
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“An overwhelming amount of potential work to do is cool. Otherwise people would never go to a gym.”

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24 February 2011 https://twitter.com/gtdguy/status/40795144949080064 <br class="br"> Official Twitter profile (@gtdguy) https://twitter.com/gtdguy

“Does something have your attention because you want it to, or because you're avoiding it?”

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31 August 2009 https://twitter.com/gtdguy/status/3669905898 <br class="br"> Official Twitter profile (@gtdguy) https://twitter.com/gtdguy

“Productivity requires expansiveness & spontaneity as much as structure & control.”

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10 March 2011 https://twitter.com/gtdguy/status/45656789341044736 <br class="br"> Official Twitter profile (@gtdguy) https://twitter.com/gtdguy

“Defaulting to ur psyche as ur system instead of an objective one makes maintaining the system too much trouble.”

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14 January 2010 https://twitter.com/gtdguy/status/7740792975 <br class="br"> Official Twitter profile (@gtdguy) https://twitter.com/gtdguy

“Your mind receives, remembers, & reminds, & sucks at all 3, compared to an objective external system a la GTD.”

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7 December 2009 https://twitter.com/gtdguy/status/6439523499 <br class="br"> Official Twitter profile (@gtdguy) https://twitter.com/gtdguy

“How much attention have I given what really deserves my attention today?”

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23 October 2010 https://twitter.com/gtdguy/status/28465522068 <br class="br"> Official Twitter profile (@gtdguy) https://twitter.com/gtdguy

“The purpose of a purpose? Tunes you to meaningful things you wouldn't be aware of, otherwise.”

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23 May 2012 https://twitter.com/gtdguy/status/205390843010498561 <br class="br"> Official Twitter profile (@gtdguy) https://twitter.com/gtdguy

“Am working as hard as I can to find out what it's OK I'm NOT going to be dong, this weekend!”

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28 January 2011 https://twitter.com/gtdguy/status/31120917924941826 <br class="br"> Official Twitter profile (@gtdguy) https://twitter.com/gtdguy

“What would your ideal exec ass't let you know - & when - & where? That should inform your best #GTD system.”

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25 June 2012 https://twitter.com/gtdguy/status/217464360359043072 <br class="br"> Official Twitter profile (@gtdguy) https://twitter.com/gtdguy

“Appropriate focus on the right stuff gives the freedom to not have to focus on anything, on a regular basis.”

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6 September 2012 https://twitter.com/gtdguy/status/243865172614189058 <br class="br"> Official Twitter profile (@gtdguy) https://twitter.com/gtdguy

“What do you want to have true? Pick something between total fantasy & 51% believable, get going, & readjust as you learn.”

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17 January 2011 https://twitter.com/gtdguy/status/26824930679062528 <br class="br"> Official Twitter profile (@gtdguy) https://twitter.com/gtdguy

“Your tools are only as good as they serve your intention. What do you want to have true? What Do you need to have viewable re: that?”

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15 November 2011 https://twitter.com/gtdguy/status/136655692730863616 <br class="br"> Official Twitter profile (@gtdguy) https://twitter.com/gtdguy

“You talk to yourself 50,000 times a day. What's 300 emails? #SmallBizChat”

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3 June 2010 https://twitter.com/gtdguy/status/15287285385 <br class="br"> Official Twitter profile (@gtdguy) https://twitter.com/gtdguy

“How, and how often, you relate to your system is an essential part of your system.”

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22 January 2011 https://twitter.com/gtdguy/status/28879937448448001 <br class="br"> Official Twitter profile (@gtdguy) https://twitter.com/gtdguy

“Making decisions requires energy, but not deciding about whether to decide requires even more energy.”

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4 February 2010 https://twitter.com/gtdguy/status/8640608559 <br class="br"> Official Twitter profile (@gtdguy) https://twitter.com/gtdguy

“If u magically had 0 emails, in 10 days you'd be back to what you had. Issue is not volume, but tolerance of backlog.”

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20 July 2011 https://twitter.com/gtdguy/status/93804918770638848 <br class="br"> Official Twitter profile (@gtdguy) https://twitter.com/gtdguy

“Staying in control daily, weekly, & yearly requires different things for each. Handling one doesn't handle the others.”

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24 May 2012 https://twitter.com/gtdguy/status/205804670864732161 <br class="br"> Official Twitter profile (@gtdguy) https://twitter.com/gtdguy

“Is what you're about to do more likely to expand or limit your ability to get what you really want? Executive intelligence.”

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15 October 2010 https://twitter.com/gtdguy/status/27408641313 <br class="br"> Official Twitter profile (@gtdguy) https://twitter.com/gtdguy

“Your ability to deal w/surprise is in inverse relation to the amount of your backlog of "stuff."”

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4 September 2010 https://twitter.com/gtdguy/status/22924717953 <br class="br"> Official Twitter profile (@gtdguy) https://twitter.com/gtdguy

“Point of in-box empty: having a complete, current inventory of what matters, so you deal clearly with what's new & what's now.”

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18 January 2011 https://twitter.com/gtdguy/status/27164314544635904 <br class="br"> Official Twitter profile (@gtdguy) https://twitter.com/gtdguy

“Trying to ignore secondarily meaningful things gives them more meaning than they deserve.”

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30 January 2010 https://twitter.com/gtdguy/status/8421130524 <br class="br"> Official Twitter profile (@gtdguy) https://twitter.com/gtdguy

“Simply ask & answer: if we were being wildly successful in fulfilling our purpose, what would it look, sound, & feel like? #SmallBizChat”

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3 June 2010 https://twitter.com/gtdguy/status/15286917857 <br class="br"> Official Twitter profile (@gtdguy) https://twitter.com/gtdguy

“Not stopping to really catch up (Weekly Review, GTDers!) means trying to catch up constantly & never getting there.”

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9 August 2010 https://twitter.com/gtdguy/status/20673625150 <br class="br"> Official Twitter profile (@gtdguy) https://twitter.com/gtdguy

“Organizing without first capturing & clarifying what needs organizing is simply rearranging your angst.”

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31 January 2012 https://twitter.com/gtdguy/status/164480736064311296 <br class="br"> Official Twitter profile (@gtdguy) https://twitter.com/gtdguy

“Clearing the deck is great, but sailing adventurous waters is the real game. (Just can't do it w/out a clear deck.)”

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10 March 2010 https://twitter.com/gtdguy/status/10288329405 <br class="br"> Official Twitter profile (@gtdguy) https://twitter.com/gtdguy

“If you figured out why making a list reduces overwhelm & confusion, you'd keep nothing in your head the rest of your life.”

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12 May 2010 https://twitter.com/gtdguy/status/13858760270 <br class="br"> Official Twitter profile (@gtdguy) https://twitter.com/gtdguy

“Only issues in life: u know what u want, but not how to get it; or u don't know what u want. Solution: #GTD”

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13 February 2011 https://twitter.com/gtdguy/status/36571301049155584 <br class="br"> Official Twitter profile (@gtdguy) https://twitter.com/gtdguy

“Good ideas are infinitely available. We've just limited our availablitly to them. The music's not in the radio.”

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3 December 2009 https://twitter.com/gtdguy/status/6297004027 <br class="br"> Official Twitter profile (@gtdguy) https://twitter.com/gtdguy

“Over-prepare. Then go with the flow.”

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28 December 2009 https://twitter.com/gtdguy/status/7105732411 <br class="br"> Official Twitter profile (@gtdguy) https://twitter.com/gtdguy

“The greater your confidence w/how to achieve control & focus, as needed, the wilder & crazier you can be.”

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4 February 2012 https://twitter.com/gtdguy/status/165951252906250240 <br class="br"> Official Twitter profile (@gtdguy) https://twitter.com/gtdguy