Thriving on Overload Podcast
Ross Dawson speaks with some of the world’s most inspiring ‘information masters’ about their practices and lessons on how to transform unlimited information into insight, foresight, and better decisions.
Joyce Gioia on identifying trends, scanning processes, stakeholder experience, and adopting personas for communicating (Ep22)
Joyce is a strategic business futurist and President of The Herman Group appears regularly in the media, including in Entrepreneur Magazine, Business Week, The Wall Street Journal, and NPR.
Stephen Poor on discerning relevance, distilling facts, thriving for lawyers and legal students, and consciously seeing connections (Ep21)
Stephen Poor is Chair Emeritus of leading employment law firm Seyfarth & Shaw, which has 900 lawyers across 17 offices and multiple continents. He led the firm as Chairman for 15 years, introducing a range of industry-leading innovations, and he now focuses on the firm’s client-facing technology strategy which includes robotics, AI, and cognitive computing.
Abhijit Bhaduri on divergence and convergence, the power of sketchnotes, multidisciplinary sensemaking, and skill portfolios (Ep20)
"You could spend all your life just drinking from that firehose and not making sense of it, or you can say, Okay, enough, let me try and structure this. That's really the magic." – Abhijit BhaduriAbout Abhijit BhaduriAbhijit is an author, blogger, podcaster, keynote...
Gerd Leonhard on understanding between the lines, his favorite apps and tools, sharing bookmarks and tags, keynote storylines, and using visual catalogs (Ep19)
"Sometimes you just have to say, I don't know why, I have no idea what that is. I think a lot of people are under a lot of pressure to know everything, understand everything, especially in our business, and you just can't." – Gerd LeonhardAbout Gerd LeonhardGerd is a...
Madeline Ashby on watching the fringes, finding common threads, sensing and sensemaking, and using murder walls (Ep18)
"There will never not be a demand for people who know how to communicate. It's about not just finding the information, but finding out how to share it effectively." – Madeline AshbyAbout Madeline AshbyMadeline Ashby is a highly successful science fiction writer and an...
Christopher Mims on seeing what’s next, filtering tools, valuable conversations, and tapping expertise (Ep17)
"I have all of these systems for blocking social media when I’m working, so it's not a distraction. Everything that I do is about trying to keep information at bay, and spend less time on the internet." – Christopher MimsAbout Christopher MimsChristopher Mims is a...
Michell Zappa on how technology evolves, scouting what’s emerging, assessing technologies, and designing useful future infographics (Ep16)
"Technology is not just the devices we use, but it's how we do things. It's so much more than just what's being built, put in boxes, and sold to us. It is all of these deeply inherent aspects of how we do things as a species." – Michell ZappaAbout Michel ZappaMichell...
Gary Swart on achieving balance, prioritization factors, filtering by relationships, and using frameworks (Ep15)
I think an important thing is to do the job before you get the job. What I prefer to do is figure out how can I add value to that group.
Marshall Kirkpatrick on source selection, connecting ideas, diverse thinking, and enabling serendipity (Ep14)
"I find it much more useful to pick a certain collection of trusted sources that have a demonstrated history of adding value around a given topic and subscribing to those." – Marshall KirkpatrickAbout Marshall KirkpatrickMarshall Kirkpatrick was the first writer hired...
Ross Dawson
Futurist, keynote speaker, author and host of Thriving on Overload.
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