How to Be Awesome at Your Job

824: Thriving Amid Information Overload with Ross Dawson


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Ross Dawson shares battle-tested strategies for excelling in a world of massive information. 


— YOU’LL LEARN — 

1) The five information superpowers 

2) How to consume information optimally 

3) How to discern the good sources from the bad ones 


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— ABOUT ROSS — 

Futurist and author Ross Dawson has focused for over 25 years on the challenge and opportunity of how to thrive on unlimited information. The initial offering of his first company Advanced Human Technologies was helping financial market leaders and company directors develop their information capabilities. He shared early insights in his prescient 1997 article Information Overload: Problem or Opportunity? 

For over two decades Ross has applied and consistently refined his frameworks for enhancing information capabilities. As a leading futurist, keynote speaker and advisor he has travelled around the globe helping business and government leaders envisage and create positive futures for an immense array of industries and issues.  

• Book: Thriving on Overload: The 5 Powers for Success in a World of Exponential Information 

• Book website: ThrivingOnOverload.com 

• Website: RossDawson.com 


— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW — 

• Book: Finite and Infinite Games: A Vision of Life as Play and Possibility by James P. Carse 

• Book: The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World by David Deutsch 

See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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