It’s becoming more and more difficult to sift the nuggets of true knowledge from the mountains of data thrown at us from all directions. Of course, we do this to ourselves to a certain extent, because in this age of unlimited access to information through the Internet as well as all the traditional sources, most of us try to take in just too much. No wonder we feel overwhelmed.
But if you are an executive or manager, there’s one way you can cut down on this data dump: stop the flow you get from your own people in the form of e-mail messages, memos, reports and presentations.
I’m not suggesting you refuse to accept any information from your people, but honestly, haven’t you ever received a half-inch-thick written report when you only wanted the salient facts or the main figures?
Have you ever sat through a monthly financial presentation in which your people stood in front of a slide covered in figures, turned around and read them out, and then — just in case you missed anything — gave you a copy of the slide as a handout? The message of these presentations generally is, “Here’s what the budget said we would...
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