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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Danville has a great pool of friendly, smart, and dependable people who provide superior service to our clients. This level of service has impressed our clients and enabled our Danville team to grow faster than expected. Danville's community leaders have also provided tremendous support and a business-friendly environment during this year of rapid growth.
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Isn't it interesting that people feel best about themselves right before they go on vacation? They've cleared up all of their to-do piles, closed up transactions, renewed old promises with themselves. My most basic suggestion is that people should do that more than just once a year.
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I look at 2005 as the year where, for the first time, Moore's Law continued but delivered more and more unique benefits in the CPU as opposed to just more speed. And I find that significant.
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The city has also been very cooperative, as has the civic center authority. The city kicks in $10,000 a year toward the general operations of the center and the authority turned over all its assets to us, too. We all have a vested interest in seeing our civic center stay open. It's a good facility. We want people to use it and hope it stays that way.
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We were playing hardball and almost twisting their arm.
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It would be rude not to share what I know with those who want to hear it.
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The sense of not having control is the greatest human fear. If you don't know what the very next thing to do is, it freaks you out. The hardest thing is to get past the stage where you don't do anything.
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Sometimes the greatest gain in productive energy will come from cleaning the cobwebs, dealing with old business, and clearing the decks.
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As the early years advanced, we were able to hit singles, then doubles, then triples, then home runs.
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Commercial lending is a very competitive market for banks. To compete effectively and win, bankers need commercial credit tools that help them to simultaneously develop deep relationships with their customers and manage risk to their organizations. That's precisely the power behind our Optimist and Portfolio Strategist software solutions. Our products are designed to enhance financial communications between banker and customer and assist in positioning the banker as a trusted financial advisor. On the risk management side, these solutions enable a banker to diagnose customers who are showing signs of deterioration, closely monitor changes in their performance, and implement corrective action early on to save problem loans.
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Microsoft has taken a leadership role in the rights management market with Windows RMS, and many customers are turning to their trusted Microsoft solution providers to implement and deploy the RMS platform. Liquid Machines solutions enhance the value of Windows RMS and make it a truly extensible platform that customers can use to consistently protect information across a broad range of applications, business scenarios, and devices. Our partners deliver critical value to RMS customers that require planning and implementation services allowing them to fully benefit from a Liquid Machines and RMS solution.
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It feels great, ... That's what I'm here for.
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We need to provide better supervision of our kids when we have kids over.
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We played awfully well. I hate to say we could do better ... but I think most of the guys would say we could.