Recovering from information overload

McKinsey Quarterly

Volumn , Issue 1, 2011, Pages 80-88

  Dean, Derek ^a   Webb, Caroline ^a  

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References (13)

1. Peter Drucker, The Effective Executive, Oxford, UK: Butterworth- Heinemann, 1967,pp. 28-29
2. For example, compare Julie Morgenstern's advice to "control the time nibblers," in her well-regarded book, Never Check E-mail in the Morning: And Other Unexpected Strategies for Making your Work Life Work (Fireside, 2005), with Drucker's statement that "to be effective, every knowledge worker, and especially every executive, needs to be able to dispose of time in fairly large chunks."
3. For another view on today's information challenge and some potential solutions, see Paul Hemp, "Death by information overload," Harvard Business Review, September 2009, Volume 87, Number 9, pp. 82-89.
4. Christopher L. Asplund, Paul E. Dux, Jason Ivanoff, and Rene Marois, "Isolation of a central bottleneck of information processing with time-resolved fMRI," Neuron, 2006, Volume 52, Number 6, pp. 1109-20 (Pubitemid 44909406)
5. Eyal Ophir, Clifford Nass, and Anthony D. Wagner, "Cognitive control in media multitaskers," PNAS, 2009, Volume 106, Number 37, pp. 15583-87.
6. Teresa M. Amabile et al., "Time pressure and creativity in organizations: A longitudinal field study," Harvard Business School working paper, Number 02-073, 2002.
7. Sue Shellenbarger, "Multitasking makes you stupid," Wall Street Journal, February 27, 2003.
8. David Bawden and Lyn Robinson, "The dark side of information: Overload, anxiety, and other paradoxes and pathologies," Journal of Information Science, Volume 20, Number 10, pp. 1-12
9. Edward M. Hallowell, MD, and John J. Ratey, MD, Deliveredfrom Distraction, Ballantine Books, 2006
10. A11 unattributed quotes are taken from interviews conducted by the authors.
11. Alex Taylor III et al., "How I work," Fortune, March 15, 2006.
12. Alex Taylor III et al., "How I work," Fortune, March 15, 2006.
13. Matt Richtel, "Digital devices deprive brain of needed downtime," New York Times, August 24, 2010