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Category: Life, Project management

28th June 2007

How David Allen mastered getting things done

“David Allen sits in his small office in a cottage behind his house in Ojai, Calif., talking business with a visitor. Suddenly he stops. “That reminds me,” he says. He scribbles the words ‘bird feed’ on a piece of blank notebook paper and tosses it into his inbox. It’s an ordinary moment in an ordinary day. But for Allen and his legion of followers, it holds the key to salvation. He has emptied his mind of a nagging task, placed it into a trusted system for processing, and casually returned to his conversation.”

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