Word: allen
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...Harvard-sponsored club founded last fall. The organization targets Harvard and MIT students and affiliates. Multiplay 01 was HIMG’s inaugural gaming event. “It’s the first such event that I’ve ever heard of,” says Allen Cheng ’09, one of the organizers of the event. The president of HIMG, Benjamin S. Decker ’08, said that his organization is “trying to establish a community of gamers in the area.” “In the long term...
...companies have embraced Allen's philosophy as thoroughly as General Mills, the Minnesota-based maker of Cheerios and Lucky Charms. Allen began at the company with a couple of private coaching sessions for top executives, who raved about his guidance. Allen and his staff now hold six to eight two-day training sessions a year. The company has already put more than 2,000 employees through GTD training and plans to expand it company-wide. "Fads come and go," says General Mills exec Kevin Wilde, "but this continues to work...
...most fevered followers of Allen's organizational methodology gather online. Websites like gtdindex.marvelz com parse Allen's every utterance. The 43Folders blog ran an eight-part podcast interview with him. GTD enthusiasts like Frank Meeuwsen, on whatsthenextaction.com gather best practice techniques for implementing the book's ideas. More than 60 software tools have been built specifically to supplement Allen's system...
...ardor has led some devotees to bring GTD home. They use their electronic labelmakers (a must-have GTD tool) to make sense of linen closets, and they encourage their kids to break homework assignments into action steps. The clamor for new applications of GTD has grown so loud that Allen is at work on a third book, due in 2008. He says it will further explore GTD's principles and extend his theory to novel domains, including the home...
...Allen's new direction may be a sign of the next wave in corporate consulting. While today's management experts often look for ways to trim organizations into the leanest machines possible, Wharton marketing professor Sigal Barsade says consultants will increasingly be "balance experts." Corporations that have survived waves of layoffs need advice on finding calm and new outlets for creativity. "They're looking at how far you can slow down to actually increase efficiency," Barsade says. Allen has put that at the top of his to-do list...