Futurist Ross Dawson’s Podcast: Thriving on Overload

Written By Abhijit Bhaduri

“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.”

Futurist Ross Dawson has a podcast called Thriving on Overload. He spoke to me about how I gather information and then sort it out and make sense of it.

How to make sense of the information, data, opinion and fake news that comes to us. The time stamps will help you navigate to the specific segment.,

  • What mentality is needed to thrive on overload (01:51)

  • How to structure your engagement with information (03:31)

  • How to convert the divergent into a convergence (05:01)

  • Using sketchnotes for sensemaking (07:20)

  • How to pull and distil the essence of complex ideas (11:10)

  • How to organise information visually (14:11)

  • Developing a thriving community by being accessible (16:10)

  • How organisations can help their employees to deal with information overload (21:26)

  • What is the way to teach learning to learn in a world of fast change (27:45)

  • Why conversation is a powerful tool to thrive on overload (30:54)

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You can find more resources here https://thrivingonoverload.com/resources/

Abhijit Bhaduri

Abhijit Bhaduri is an advisor to organizations on talent development and leadership development. As the former GM Global L&D of Microsoft, Abhijit led their onboarding and skilling strategy especially for people managers. Forbes described him as "the most interesting generalist from India." The San Francisco Examiner described him as the "world’s foremost expert on talent and development" and among the ten most sought-after brand evangelists. He is rated among the top ten experts on learning across the world. He is a LinkedIn Top Voice with more than a million followers on social media. He teaches at the Doctoral Program for Chief Learning Officers at the University of Pennsylvania. Prior to being at Microsoft, he led an advisory practice helping organizations build their leadership, talent and culture strategy. His latest book is called Career 3.0 – Six Skills You Must Have To Succeed. You can follow him on LinkedIn.com/in/AbhijitBhaduri and on Twitter @AbhijitBhaduri

https://abhijitbhaduri.com
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