Overload!: How Too Much Information is Hazardous to Your Organization

Jonathan B. Spira

Apr 2011 · Sold by John Wiley & Sons

About this ebook

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.

Ratings and reviews

Feeling a bit overwhelmed? You (and I) are not alone. Whether we like it or not, information overload is a fact of life - but according Overload!, a new book by Jonathan B. Spira, all is not lost. To understand information overload is to take the first steps to conquer it, according to the author, so - in a entertaining but thoroughly researched manner - he takes us through how we got to this point, from clay tablet to iPad tablet. Information overload isn't new - every generation has seemingly been plagued by this "scourge of modern society" (a comment made by Peter Miles, a BMW senior executive, to the author). Reading this book gave me a far greater understanding of the problem - and equipped me with some basic tools I can use to lower information overload for me and the people I work and correspond with.

About the author

Jonathan B. Spira is CEO and chief analyst of Basex, a research firm focusing on issues companies face in the knowledge economy. His points of view and commentary have appeared in Time, the New York Times, Business Week, and the Wall Street Journal. Mr. Spira is a founding board member of the Information Overload Research Group, an industry consortium. He is author of Managing the Knowledge Workforce: Understanding the Information Revolution That's Changing the Business World and coauthor of The History of Photography (named a best book of the year by the New York Times).