David Allen
David Allen
Notable for his self-help books Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity (2001) and Making It All Work: Winning at the Game of Work and Business of Life (2008), Allen formulated a method of time management called "Getting Things Done" and founded both Actioneer, Inc. and the David Allen Company.
ProfessionEntrepreneur
Date of Birth28 December 1945
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The next time you want to hires someone and are evaluating performance and skill sets, look at the person's ability to get ready fast. When has she been really surprised (positively or negatively)? How long did it take her to integrate it and navigate a positive response?
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It's Bill who's there at the center every day and it's Bill who has hustled and made all the bookings. He's devoted a lot of time to the center.
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I've experienced (more times than I like to admit) avoiding slightly uncomfortable conversations with others I should have had on the front end and then endured much more excruciating ones on the back end.
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The base salaries for all management employees are being reviewed with those below market to be adjusted. I haven't heard of any downward adjustment.
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It's already unwieldy with almost 50 people with different languages.
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Its good to get a win. We lost a tough one on Tuesday. It was good to get the win. We got hits when we needed to get hits.
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We did good. But we're both working artists. ... The time had come for someone to take over who knows how to run a computer.
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Ultimately, the consumer is going to be affected to the extent that they will have less discretionary money to spend,
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The great secret about goals and visions is not the future they describe but the change in the present they engender.
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In Ireland we have a very old saying, When you can see the mountains it's going to rain and when you can't see the mountains it's raining.
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Distracting reactions about anything undermine a clear mind about anything else.
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There is no reason ever to have the same thought twice, unless you like having that thought.
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Why do people complain that there's no time to get their work done? Because there is more work to do than the work they think they have to do.
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Most often, the reason something is "on your mind" is that you want it to be different than it currently is, and yet: you haven't clarified exactly what the intended outcomes is; you haven't decided what the very next physical action step is; and/or you haven't put reminders of the outcome and the action required in a system you trust. That's why it's on your mind.