Can I have your attention for a few minutes? Great, that is exactly what I want to talk about today, getting people's attention! I'd also like to talk about what should happen once you get people's attention. In a meeting a few weeks ago I talked about my "dancing gorilla" experience when I lived in Oregon which I hoped would effectively articulate where most companies are from a communications standpoint and what it takes to get attention from others in our new fast passed, digital, and information overloaded…
information overload
The information-confusion curve
Finding the Sweet Spot in a World of Information Overload Look at the graph above. At first glance, it appears deceptively simple: a U-shaped curve showing the relationship between information and confusion. Yet this elegant visualization captures one of the most significant challenges we face in the modern world: finding the optimal balance between too little and too much information. This phenomenon explains why both inadequate information and information overload lead to increased confusion, while somewhere in the middle lies a sweet spot where understanding is maximized and…
