• Keen On… David Allen: How to Get Things Done in America (TCTV)

    Andrew Keen

    Andrew Keen is an Anglo-American entrepreneur, writer, broadcaster and public speaker. He is the author of the international hit “Cult of the Amateur: How the Internet is Killing our Culture” which has been published in 17 different languages and was short-listed for the Higham’s Business Technology Book of the Year award. As a pioneering Silicon Valley based Internet entrepreneur,... → Learn More

    Wednesday, August 10th, 2011

    I’ve been meaning to write this post all week. But you know how things are – there is always something better to do, always something more fun, always one excuse or another to put it off. If you are like me and struggle to get things done, then David Allen might be your man. He’s the Mr-Getting-Things-Done of the self-help world, an efficiency guru with 1.3 million Twitter followers, best known for his classic 2002 book Getting Things Done, which still remains a best-seller.

    Right now, America needs David Allen. So when he came into the TechCrunchTV studio, I asked him how America, and especially Washington DC, could learn to get things done. What he had to say – both about how to make our politics and personal lives more efficient – might surprise you. If there is one thing you manage to get done today, it should be watching David Allen.

    How to get things done in America

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    Person: David Allen
    Website: davidco.com

    David Allen is an author, consultant, international lecturer, founder and CEO of the David Allen Company. He is widely recognized as the world’s leading authority on personal and organizational productivity. His thirty years of pioneering research, coaching and education of some of the world’s highest-performing professionals, corporations and institutions, has earned him Forbes’ recognition as one of the top five executive coaches in the United States. He was also named one of the “Top 100 thought leaders” by Leadership...

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