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David Allen

David Allen is an American productivity consultant and author best known for Getting Things Done and Making It All Work. His work centers on time management, workflow design, and stress-free productivity, and the GTD method he developed has influenced executive coaching, corporate training, and personal organization practices around the world.

Biographie et Parcours de l'Auteur

David Allen emerged from a background far less linear than the system he later became known for. Raised in Shreveport, Louisiana, he attended New College in Sarasota and later pursued graduate work in American history at the University of California, Berkeley. The decisive turn in his career came not from publishing first, but from years of consulting and testing practical methods in live organizational settings. By 1981 he had established a consulting practice, by 1983 he was delivering a two-day course, and by the mid-1980s his methods had reached large corporate settings, including aerospace, where an early form of GTD proved that his ideas could scale. ((https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Allen_%28author%29?utm_source=openai))

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There is no catching up. There is only catching on
-The Way Out is Through ((
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A calendar is nothing more than a list of next actions in the context of sequence in time
-The One List People Trust ((
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You are disorganized if you need something somewhere that you don’t have or have something somewhere that you don’t need
-What does “organized” mean? ((
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Pressure on a system will always show up at the weakest connection points
-The Process Pressure Points are Personal ((
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Your system has to be at least as good as your mind to give your head the freedom to be present, creative, and spontaneous
-Who does your remembering, retrieving, and reminding? ((
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I coach that we need to externalize the details and internalize the prioritizing
-I’m a time management heretic! ((
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The only thing that makes it work is a consistent intervention of you
-Climb the Fire Tower—Weekly ((
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Mind Like Water: A mental and emotional state in which your head is clear
-Mind like water ((
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There is one organization that never has fires and crises—the fire department
-Your Competitive Edge ((
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This is not an empty mind; it’s a mind that is operating at a more productive and creative level
-About GTD ((

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