824: Thriving Amid Information Overload with Ross Dawson
How to Be Awesome at Your Job
How to be Awesome at Your Job
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🗓️ 12 December 2022
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
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
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the How to Be Awesome at Your Job Podcast. |
| 0:04.1 | The show where brilliant professionals share how to sharpen the universal skills required |
| 0:08.6 | to flourish at work. |
| 0:10.1 | Enjoy more career fun, wins, meaning, and money with your host, Pete LeCaites. |
| 0:16.1 | Hello, and thanks for joining us for episode 824 with Ross Dawson. |
| 0:23.3 | If you feel the overwhelm, the overload sensation associated with just too much information |
| 0:30.1 | Ross has got some pro tips to help a sharp framework, some best practices, I think you'll |
| 0:36.4 | dig it. |
| 0:37.4 | You'll learn one, the five information superpowers, two, how to consume information optimally |
| 0:42.8 | and three, how to discern the good sources from the bad ones. |
| 0:46.6 | So if you want to check out the show notes or the transcript or the links to items that |
| 0:49.0 | we've referenced, please pace it over at Awesome at Your Job.com slash EP824, and check |
| 0:54.3 | out some of the other goodies over at Awesome at Your Job.com while you're there. |
| 0:57.9 | Now here's some goodies about Ross. |
| 1:00.3 | Futurists and author Ross Dawson has focused for over 25 years on the challenge and opportunity |
| 1:04.4 | of how to thrive on unlimited information. |
| 1:07.5 | The initial offering of his first company, Advanced Human Technologies, was helping financial |
| 1:11.3 | market leaders and company directors develop their information capabilities. |
| 1:15.0 | He shared early insights in his press into 1997 article information overload, problem |
| 1:20.0 | or opportunity. |
| 1:21.3 | For over two decades, Ross has applied and consistently refined his frameworks for enhancing |
| 1:25.6 | information capabilities. |
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