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…when we make a decision about someone or something, we don’t use all of the relevant available information. We use only a single, high representative piece of the total.

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Because technology can evolve much faster than we can, our natural capacity to process information is likely to be increasingly inadequate to handle the abundance of change, choice, and challenge that is characteristic of modern life.

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Nobody knowns everything, not even the CEO. Instead, the information is distributed asymmetrically across the team and across the company.

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Each chunk of information that is memorized opens up the mental space for more effortful thinking. This is true for any endeavor.

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To be useful, a persona should be pragmatic and provide useful information that can help inform product design decisions.

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Information generated, collected, or created by users (e.g., songs, photos, or news clippings) are examples of stored value in the form of content.

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Studies have found that information workers have so much coming at them, they switch tasks every three minutes, making the workday fragmented and incoherent.

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There is no question that the overwhelm and information overload are fracturing time for both mean and women and splintering it into whirling bits of time confetti.

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…very few jobs in traditional hierarchical organizations provide the information and the experience needed to help people becomes leaders.

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Silos limit access to information about the big picture, and certainly any big-picture opportunities or threats.

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