戴维·艾伦

戴维·艾伦（英语：David Allen，1945年12月28日—）是一位美国的效能咨询师，以他的时间管理方法和同名书籍“搞定”（Getting Things Done，英文缩写为“GTD”）闻名。他是《纽约时报》畅销书作者。他的以下书籍在中国大陆出版：

著作

搞定I:无压工作的艺术，中信出版社（2016）

搞定II:提升工作与生活效率的52项原则，中信出版社

搞定III:平衡工作与生活的艺术，中信出版社

伸延阅读

Beardsley, David. (April 1998) "Don't Manage Time, Manage Yourself." Fast Company. Issue 14, p. 64.

Fallows, James. (July/August 2004) "Organize Your Life!." Atlantic Monthly. Vol. 294, No. 1, pp. 171–2.

Wolf, Gary. September 25, 2007 Getting Things Done Guru David Allen and His Cult of Hyperefficiency Wired : 15.10

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. 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.

After graduate school, Allen began using heroin and was briefly institutionalized. He is an ordained minister with the Movement of Spiritual Inner Awareness. He claims to have had 35 professions before age 35. He began applying his perspective on productivity with businesses in the 1980s when he began consulting at Lockheed's human resources department.

Publications

Allen has written three books: Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity, which describes his productivity program; Ready for Anything: 52 Productivity Principles for Work and Life, a collection of newsletter articles he has written; Making It All Work: Winning at the Game of Work and Business of Life, a follow-up to his first book. In 2015, he also wrote a new updated version of Getting Things Done: the Art of Stress-Free Productivity.

In 2024, David Allen has co-authored Team: Getting Things Done with Others on how to work effectively in groups using GTD Principles.

Personal life

Allen lived in Ojai, California with his fourth wife, Kathryn. In 2014, they moved to Amsterdam in the Netherlands.