Better prioritization, fewer interruptions, and concentrated information that's easy to find and manage helps people become more productive and stop wasting their colleagues' time.
I agree but I think Nielsen is falling short when he suggest that better prioritising is the way forward. I think there needs to be a cultural shift within education and business training to promote accelerated learning techniques such as mind mapping and speed reading to allow us to find, extract and remember relevant pieces of information better.
In general we are taught how to read at primary school. Word for word, line by line, from there on in we are give more and more information to process and no further instruction how to become more effective readers. If we are lucky we stumble across our own way of coping but most people don't! We should all make a point to learn better reading strategies to cope with this deluge of information. By learning to speed read or photoread etc. we are better able to deal with the demands of the modern world.
I fundamentally believe the our state schools are failing their students (our children) by not providing this kind of tuition. When will the school system teach our children properly, to operate more efficiently in the world! Whilst I do believe in an academic education system our children need to be armed with the best strategies to cope with the demands of learning, reading, note taking and memory (recall) techniques; by using "whole mind" techniques learning can be fun. Wouldn't it be really cool for our kids to be enthusiastic about going to school to learn!