Quotes About David Allen

If e-mail were to move to the periphery of your workday, you'd be required to deploy a more thoughtful approach to figuring out what you should be working on and for how long. This type of planning is hard. Consider, for example, David Allen's Getting Things Done task-management methodology, which is a well-respected system for intelligently managing competing workplace obligations.

an explosion of nonstop, potentially "important"—or at least relevant—information.

As Peter Drucker has written, "In knowledge work . . . the task is not given; it has to be determined.

The greater the volume of thoughts you have to work with, the better the context you can create for developing options and trusting your choices.