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
giving focus doe
Focusing on values does not simplify your life. It gives meaning and direction-and a lot more complexity.
focus can-do
You can do anything, but you can't do everything
clever stupid focus
The problem is, is when your focus is created by a crisis, then the frontal lobe shuts down essentially, the frontal cortex which is your intuitive intelligence. So you get very clever and very stupid in a crisis. Also, you pump adrenalin into your body from what you - physiologically you'll crash.
positive choices focus
A vision of a desired future allows you to engage and identify immediately in your focus with an improved condition. It changes what you perceive and how you perform NOW. It's not about achieving something in time. It's rather about the quality of choices you are making in this moment - what you choose to perceive, feel, and do. It's about getting the most out of your experience.
moving people focus
Most people move actually into high performance in a crisis because that creates the kind of focus that creates high performance.
issues focus management
You can't manage time, you actually only manage what you do during time. So the management issue is not so much about time, it's more about how do you manage your focus, how do you manage your actions and your activities in terms of what you do.
anne perfect
I think Anne is just perfect (for this job).
activity budget budgets easily fred inventory land mars project soon work
Land on Mars' as a project still comes down to something like 'Call Fred about the Mars budget proposal' that can be accomplished as soon and as easily as any other activity in our inventory of work at hand.
hire people twice
People are going to have to think twice once they hire more than 10 employees.
identify patent primary property protect role
Our primary role is to identify intellectual property that is disclosed to us by (researchers), patent protect and commercialize it,
creates enter stuff
Remember, you're the one who creates speed, because you're the one who allows stuff to enter your life.
few juries problem
I think it's just something to mislead the jury. And I don't think there's a problem anyway, because very few juries ever acquit.
kids provide
We need to provide better supervision of our kids when we have kids over.
feels
It feels great, ... That's what I'm here for.