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November 06, 2005

Is he still alive?

One of the best things I've heard in the last few months is one of my staff recounting a question someone asked them during one of our in-house seminars: "Is David Allen still alive?"

I've never been particularly comfortable with my name on the masthead of our company. My personality style frankly would prefer to slip away into the night ("Who was that masked man?")

But it's been easier to sell a personality than a process. Oh well. So when someone in our professional world wonders if I'm still alive, I'm thinking: "thank you jesus!" The myth is so much better than the reality, anyway. The sooner I might become a Booz, Allen, McKinsey, or whatever (who were/are they, anyway?), the more I figure the value of the process has achieved its deserved place in the annals of self-management best practices.

[This is being written by a software-generated application, that has no relationship to the real David Allen, who (if he ever existed [and we're not sure]) had no part in its creation.)

I find it harder and harder to live up to my blue china. - Oscar Wilde

Posted by David at November 6, 2005 09:41 PM

Comments

David,

If it's any consolation, it's become a trend to name things after people who've accomplished something ** while they're still around to enjoy it **. Up here in Ottawa (Canada), there are streets named after William Shatner, the Family Brown, Terry Matthews and a few others who are still kicking around. You'll know you (and the company) are an incredible success when your name is known in as many households as Oprah ;-)

Keep on Kickin'!

/Mike

--
Michael Brown
Training and Consulting for Mobile Technology

Solutions At Hand

Posted by: Michael Brown at November 7, 2005 07:31 AM

Well, I am a huge fan of the mythical David Allen and the computer that generates the blog. But, I've bumped into this guy that looks strikingly similar to the "model" on the cover of the GTD book, mostly around Ojai, and let me tell you, that guy is a pretty good time as well. Could he be just an overly-organized robot with a sardonic wit and good taste in wine and coffee, carefully manufactured in an underground lab in the Silicon Valley? That being said, come on David, what kind of ego-maniac names his company after himself and then gets mad when people confuse the two? Love- Coffeeboy...er...I mean...Andrew

P.S. I hope to be a method when I grow up.

Posted by: coffeeboy at November 7, 2005 11:08 AM

If a non-existant David Allen updates a context list in the forest and there's no one there to hear it, is the stuff still out of his head?

Posted by: Alan at November 7, 2005 07:51 PM

If a robot had written it, it would have used brackets correctly...

[This is being written by a software-generated application, that has no relationship to the real David Allen, who (if he ever existed [and we're not sure]) had no part in its creation.)

So, I dare ask, who is the wizard behind the curtain? :)

Posted by: Robots? at November 7, 2005 08:30 PM

If a robot had written it, it would have used brackets correctly...

[This is being written by a software-generated application, that has no relationship to the real David Allen, who (if he ever existed [and we're not sure]) had no part in its creation.)

So, I dare ask, who is the wizard behind the curtain? :)

Posted by: Robots? at November 7, 2005 08:34 PM

In the book "Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't", Jim Collins talks about which companies were able to sustain peak performance after a powerful and charismatic leaders left. Here are some quotes:

. The comparison companies frequently followed the "genius with a thousand helpers" model . a genius leader who sets a vision and then enlists a crew of highly capable "helpers" to make the vision happen. This model fails when the genius departs.

. Level 5 leaders set up their successors for even greater success in the next generation, whereas egocentric Level 4 leaders often set up their successors for failure.


http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0066620996/104-9398335-2527114

Posted by: Matthew Cornell at November 8, 2005 09:16 AM

David here - So, was the guy behind the curtain a fool or a friend?

Posted by: David Allen at November 8, 2005 04:52 PM

If a tree falls in the forest, do the other trees laugh at it?

Sorry, earlier post reminded me of that one…

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