6 Posts found for Author: David Allen

What separates the best from the rest? In elite sports, it’s the ability to consistently make the most of all elements affecting performance, from athletes’ fitness, strength, agility, and mindset to the playing conditions and technological sophistication of equipment. Little things count when a fraction of a second makes all the difference.

The same holds true for top-performing companies. Getting some elements right can make you … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Authors: David Allen, Julien Courbe, Lang Davison, Mohamed Kande, Nikki Parham, Tom Puthiyamadam | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Best Practices, Management

Past research points to two main reasons why people leave their jobs: turnover shocks and low job embeddedness. Turnover shocks are events that prompt people to reconsider whether they should stay with the organization. Some shocks are organizational (e.g., change in leadership, M&A announcement) and others are personal (e.g., receiving an outside job offer, birth of a child). Job embeddedness is when people are deeply … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Authors: Brooks Holtom, David Allen | Source: Harvard Business Review | Subjects: Human Resources, Organizational Behavior

There are only two problems in life: you know what you want and you don’t know how to get it; or you don’t know what you want.

Content: Quotation | Author: David Allen | Subjects: Life, Personal Development, Wisdom

With first-chapter allusions to martial arts, “flow,” “mind like water,” and other concepts borrowed from the East (and usually mangled), you’d almost think this self-helper from David Allen should have been called Zen and the Art of Schedule Maintenance.

Not quite. Yes, Getting Things Done offers a complete system for downloading all those free-floating gotta-do’s clogging your brain into a sophisticated framework of files and action … [ Read more ]

Content: Book | Author: David Allen | Subjects: Personal Development, Productivity / Work Tips

When people ask me how to set priorities, I ask them a question: At what level do you want to have this conversation? Each of us operates on many different levels at all times. We each have a runway that holds all of the little things that consume our time. At 10,000 feet are the projects. At 20,000 feet, people are deciding on their roles … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Author: David Allen | Subject: Personal Development

“Leaders make things up, and they make them happen. They’re defining the game — but they’re also making sure the game is on. And those two behaviors sit at very distinctly opposite ends of the continuum of how things get done. We must frame a vision, defining what done means. And we must then make that vision operational, deciding what doing actually looks like. It … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: David Allen | Source: Leader to Leader | Subject: Leadership