Surviving Information Overload
Surviving Information Overload

Author: Kevin A. Miller

Publisher: Zondervan

Published: 2009-05-18

Total Pages: 242

ISBN-13: 0310566010

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The barrage of emails, voicemail, web pages to scan, books to read, and magazines and newsletters to digest leave people increasingly feeling overwhelmed and out of control in dealing with information overload as society spins even faster. This book offers a brief, seven-chapter practical guide to the "capture" approach. It teaches the skills of point, focus, and shoot to help the reader become more productive and overcome mental fatigue. This is not a gimmick for "neat desk" people or an expensive system requiring purchase of multiple resources or practice of rigid exercises. This practical, quick-read book shows how people of any temperament can keep from drowning in the sea of information. Features include interviews and insights from national leaders plus charts, cartoons, worksheets, and creative exercises. The book is not about how to speed up but how to gain time and focus and purpose and the mental space to be creative. You don't have to finish the book but can read it selectively at different times depending on your current needs. Feel free to skim-read, tear out pages, email small sections to a friend, or read from back to front. The goal is that you come away with ideas and help. The four sections are: 1. Finding the information you need: and getting results from it.2. Clearing information clutter: less is more.3. Creating space to think: finding oasis amid overload.4. Discovering bonus stuff: it doesn't cost you anything extra. This clear, practical guide will help you to: -Sort and organize information in less time -Make space to be creative -Find just the information you need when you need it -Move from frantic to purposeful -Keep growing over a lifetime.

Survive Information Overload
Survive Information Overload

Author: Kathryn Alesandrini

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional Publishing

Published: 1992

Total Pages: 292

ISBN-13:

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"Every year in the United States, over a ton of office paper is generated for every manager in the workforce. Meetings, which already take up nearly half of a manager's day, are proliferating in response to the push for cross-functional teamwork. The number of electronic mail messages is predicted to top the 60 billion mark by the year 2000. How can you survive the onslaught and find the information you need to be productive?" "SURVIVE Information Overload gives you a step-by-step action plan to survive the information age and still have time to effectively manage people, increase productivity, and best serve customers. If you're overwhelmed by the glut of memos, messages, and research cluttering your desk, you can better manage your workload by "seeing the big picture "- and Alesandrini shows you how!" "SURVIVE is an acronym that gives you the seven ways to manage your workload in the information age without resorting to outdated time management practices. You'll find how to: synthesize details; underscore priorities; reduce paperwork; view the big picture; illuminate meeting issues; visualize new concepts; extract the essence." "Alesandrini shows you how to use innovative techniques, such as priority mapping, context analysis, visual organization, and the use of a Master Control System to manage details by seeing the big picture and to eliminate wasted time. She includes a comprehensive list of services, tapes, technology, and office products so you can manage information effectively. You'll discover time-saving ideas to find needed information with less reading, prevent paper buildup, make meetings more effective, capture ideas, and organize thoughts." "SURVIVE Information Overload is the perfect prescription for combatting the onslaught of information in the '90s and beyond!"--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Overload!
Overload!

Author: Jonathan B. Spira

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2011-04-18

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 1118064178

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Timely advice for getting a grip on information overload in the workplace This groundbreaking book reveals how different kinds of information overload impact workers and businesses as a whole. It helps businesses get a grip on the financial and human costs of e-mail overload and interruptions and details how working in an information overloaded environment impacts employee productivity, efficiency, and morale. Explains how information?often in the form of e-mail messages, reports, news, Web sites, RSS feeds, blogs, wikis, instant messages, text messages, Twitter, and video conferencing walls?bombards and dulls our senses Explores what we do with information Documents how we created more and more information over centuries Reveals what all this information is doing Timely and thought-provoking, Overload! addresses the reality of?and solutions for?a problem to which no one is immune.

The Organized Mind
The Organized Mind

Author: Daniel Levitin

Publisher: Penguin UK

Published: 2015-01-29

Total Pages: 528

ISBN-13: 0241965799

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Author and neuroscientist Daniel Levitin tackles the problems of twenty-first century information overload in his New York Times bestselling book The Organized Mind. 'The Organized Mind is smart, important, and as always, exquisitely written' - Daniel Gilbert, Harvard University, author of Stumbling on Happiness Overwhelmed by demands on your time? Baffled by the sheer volume of data? You're not alone: modern society is in a state of information overload. The Organized Mind investigates this phenomenon and the effect it has on us, analysing how and why our brains are struggling to keep up with the demands of the digital age. The twenty-first century sees us drowning under emails, forever juggling six tasks at once and trying to make complex decisions ever more quickly. Using a combination of academic research and examples from daily life, neuroscientist and bestselling author Daniel Levitin explains how to take back control of your life. This book will take you through every aspect of modern life, from healthcare to online dating to raising kids, showing that the secret to success is always organization. Levitin's research is surprising, powerful and will change the way you see the world. It's time to learn why there's no such thing as multitasking, why email is so addictive and why all successful people need a junk drawer. In a world where information is power, The Organized Mind holds the key to harnessing that information and making it work for you. Dr. Daniel J. Levitin has a PhD in Psychology, training at Stanford University Medical School and UC Berkeley. He is the author of the No. 1 bestseller This Is Your Brain On Music (Dutton, 2006), published in nineteen languages, and The World in Six Songs (Dutton, 2008) which hit the bestseller lists in its first week of release. Currently he is a James McGill Professor of Psychology, Behavioral Neuroscience and Music at McGill University in Montreal, Canada.

Data Smog
Data Smog

Author: David Shenk

Publisher: Harper Collins

Published: 2009-10-13

Total Pages: 337

ISBN-13: 0061844586

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Media scholar ( and Internet Enthusiast ) David Shenk examines the troubling effects of information proliferation on our bodies, our brains, our relationships, and our culture, then offers strikingly down-to-earth insights for coping with the deluge. With a skillful mixture of personal essay, firsthand reportage, and sharp analysis, Shenk illustrates the central paradox of our time: as our world gets more complex, our responses to it become increasingly simplistic. He draws convincing links between data smog and stress distraction, indecision, cultural fragmentation, social vulgarity, and more. But there's hope for a saner, more meaningful future, as Shenk offers a wealth of novel prescriptions—both personal and societal—for dispelling data smog.

The Information Diet
The Information Diet

Author: Clay A. Johnson

Publisher: "O'Reilly Media, Inc."

Published: 2015-07-13

Total Pages: 127

ISBN-13: 1491933356

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This is a softcover version of the title released in 2011; there is no new material. The modern human animal spends upwards of 11 hours out of every 24 in a state of constant consumption. Not eating, but gorging on information ceaselessly spewed from the screens and speakers we hold dear. Just as we have grown morbidly obese on sugar, fat, and flour—so, too, have we become gluttons for texts, instant messages, emails, RSS feeds, downloads, videos, status updates, and tweets. We're all battling a storm of distractions, buffeted with notifications and tempted by tasty tidbits of information. And just as too much junk food can lead to obesity, too much junk information can lead to cluelessness. The Information Diet shows you how to thrive in this information glut—what to look for, what to avoid, and how to be selective. In the process, author Clay Johnson explains the role information has played throughout history, and why following his prescribed diet is essential for everyone who strives to be smart, productive, and sane. In The Information Diet, you will: Discover why eminent scholars are worried about our state of attention and general intelligence Examine how today’s media—Big Info—give us exactly what we want: content that confirms our beliefs Learn to take steps to develop data literacy, attention fitness, and a healthy sense of humor Become engaged in the economics of information by learning how to reward good information providers Just like a normal, healthy food diet, The Information Diet is not about consuming less—it’s about finding a healthy balance that works for you

The Psychology of Economic Decisions
The Psychology of Economic Decisions

Author: Isabelle Brocas

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 259

ISBN-13: 0199257221

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This volume brings together contributions to the burgeoning research area of behavioral economics from a number of well-known international scholars in the field. Topics covered include 'irrational' conducts; imperfect self-knowledge; imperfect memory; time and utility; and experimental practices in psychology, economics, and finance. This book will provide a point of entry to anyone wishing to discover what the intellectual terrain between economics and psychology looks like.

Kingdom Education
Kingdom Education

Author: Glen Schultz

Publisher: Lifeway Church Resources

Published: 2003-02-01

Total Pages: 184

ISBN-13: 9780633091309

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Revised, expanded, and featuring the latest research, this edition of Kingdom Education, by Glen Schultz provides parents, church leaders, and Christian educators with biblical principles on raising their children for Christ.

Too Much to Know
Too Much to Know

Author: Ann M. Blair

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2010-11-02

Total Pages: 581

ISBN-13: 0300168497

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The flood of information brought to us by advancing technology is often accompanied by a distressing sense of "information overload," yet this experience is not unique to modern times. In fact, says Ann M. Blair in this intriguing book, the invention of the printing press and the ensuing abundance of books provoked sixteenth- and seventeenth-century European scholars to register complaints very similar to our own. Blair examines methods of information management in ancient and medieval Europe as well as the Islamic world and China, then focuses particular attention on the organization, composition, and reception of Latin reference books in print in early modern Europe. She explores in detail the sophisticated and sometimes idiosyncratic techniques that scholars and readers developed in an era of new technology and exploding information.

Seeing the Big Picture
Seeing the Big Picture

Author: Kevin Cope

Publisher: Greenleaf Book Group

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 184

ISBN-13: 9781608322466

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Advocates that employees should focus their attention on what the author defines as the key drivers of cash, profit, assets, growth, and people to evaluate the viability of their organization and their prospects for advancement.