Dealing With the Infobesity Epidemic

It’s real. It’s happening. It has a detrimental effect on every person on your team. Information overload is no joke. Its impact is insidious and more damaging than you realize.

In the Knowledge Economy and the Age of Information, there’s a prevailing sentiment that we all just have cope with the non-stop barrage of data, facts, opinions, discoveries, news, and ideas. The expectation is that we drink from a firehose and stay thirsty.

Never before has so much information been so readily available or easily accessible. That’s a good thing, right?

WRONG.

It’s only a good thing if you understand how to manage the consumption of information. If you set expectations (real or perceived) that people in your workplace have to be plugged in, tuned in, and constantly open to new inputs, you’re promoting infobesity, a dangerous disease that has serious side effects.