David allen biography
David allen getting things done!
David allen biography
David Allen (author)
American author and productivity consultant (born 1945)
David Allen (born December 28, 1945) is an American author and productivity consultant. He created the time management method Getting Things Done.
Careers
Allen grew up in Shreveport, Louisiana where he acted and won a state championship in debate.[2] He attended New College (now New College of Florida) in Sarasota, Florida, and completed graduate work in American history at the University of California, Berkeley.[3]
After graduate school, Allen began using heroin and was briefly institutionalized.[4] He is an ordained minister with the Movement of Spiritual Inner Awareness.[5][6] He claims to have had 35 professions before age 35.[7] He began applying his perspective on productivity with businesses in the 1980s when he began consulting at Lockheed's human resources department.[8]
Publications and habitat
Allen has written