Books by David Allen
David Allen is one of the world’s leading authority on personal and organizational productivity. His 30 years of research, coaching and education of some of the world’s highest-performing professionals earned him recognition from Forbes magazine as one of the top five executive coaches in the United States. Allen is the author of three books including the international bestseller, Getting Things Done: the Art of Stress-Free Productivity. A perennial business bestseller since it’s publication in 2001, Getting Things Done (also known as ‘the GTD method’) is now published in 28 languages. Time magazine declared it “the defining self-help business book of its time.”
“It’s a book that crystallised a handful of really deep and true and powerful insights about how to organise your work within time—the kind of insights that are so fundamental now that Allen probably doesn’t get all the credit he should get, because they just seem like givens…Probably the most penetrating one is that a lot of the stress that we associate with feeling overwhelmed with work is actually the stress of using our brains to keep track of and remember everything that’s on our plate. It’s not necessarily that there’s too much to do, but that our brains are badly designed for storing lists of what to do” Read more...
The best books on Time Management
Oliver Burkeman, Journalist
Interviews with David Allen
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The Organized Mind: Thinking Straight in the Age of Information Overload
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BrainChains: Your Thinking Brain Explained in Simple Terms
by Theo Compernolle -
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The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right
by Atul Gawande -
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The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future
by Kevin Kelly -
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The Antidote
by Oliver Burkeman
The best books on Productivity, recommended by David Allen
The best books on Productivity, recommended by David Allen
If you feel like you lose whole days to procrastination or indecision—or simply have too much to do!—you probably want advice on how improve your productivity. We spoke to David Allen, creator of the perennial bestseller Getting Things Done, about the best books on the subject: why we waste time, and what we can change to be more productive.
Interviews where books by David Allen were recommended
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Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art
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Food for Life: Your Guide to the New Science of Eating Well
by Tim Spector -
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The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
by Stephen Covey -
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Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams
by Matthew Walker -
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Outlive: The Art and Science of Longevity
by Peter Attia & with Bill Gifford -
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Pure, White, and Deadly: How Sugar Is Killing Us and What We Can Do to Stop It
by John Yudkin
Self-Help Books for 2025
Self-Help Books for 2025
New year, new you? Every January, millions resolve to become fitter, happier and more productive. If you’re looking for evergreen life advice, look no further than this curated selection of self-help books, recommended by our expert interviewees.
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Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity
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Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World
by Cal Newport -
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The Tao of Time
by Diana Hunt & Pam Hait -
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Drop the Ball: Achieving More by Doing Less
by Tiffany Dufu -
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Finding Meaning in an Imperfect World
by Iddo Landau
The best books on Time Management, recommended by Oliver Burkeman
The best books on Time Management, recommended by Oliver Burkeman
Feeling stressed and overwhelmed? You are not alone. Oliver Burkeman, author of Four Thousand Weeks, selects some of the best books on time management—including two classic how-to guides, plus several texts focused on helping you decide how you really want to spend your finite time on this planet.
