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How Are Those Long Range Scanners Working Out?
Are You Looking Far Enough Into The Future? Since our earliest days as primitive savannah wanderers, we humans have had a natural tendency to prioritize immediate gratification above achieving more far-reaching goals.…
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Does The Past Still Exist?
In The Langoliers by Stephen King, a plane flies through a strange wave of light and ends up landing at a deserted airport. Suddenly, strange creatures start consuming everything, including the ground.…
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Its Not Tetris: Hire The Best People In the Present Of Work
You’ve probably been denied a job due to “fit” – as in, you are not the right fit for the role or the right fit for the organization. But what exactly does…
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You Need To Experiment Like Crazy To Innovate
Your innovation laboratories’ existential question: which concept has the potential to be worth a billion dollars? After implementing an innovation program, the most significant challenge that I’ve seen businesses face, in my…
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Minimum Viability Eats The World
Awhile back, one of my leading posts was Agile Is Eating The World, where I riff of of Andressen’s quote Software Is Eating The World. In that post, I talk about how…
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The 10000 Hour Myth
You are familiar with it. We have all been exposed to it. The “10,000 hours to mastery” idea has been discussed in many business books and general books about life. However, I…
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You Can’t Innovate Without Thinking About The Future
There are a lot of reasons why I enjoy facilitating our customers’ foresight initiatives. It is easier to help your inventors disconnect their current day-to-day jobs from the future which they are…
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How To Use Humans And Machines To Perfect Curation
There are still some tasks that can only be accomplished by people. I remember going to Yahoo! back in 1995, just before everything exploded here in Silicon Valley. I was there with…
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The Value Of Manual Labor In The World Of Work In The Future
I went to a conference a few months back that was focused on the future of conversational interfaces. During this conference, one of the speakers described the current state of the art…
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The Future Is Just-in-Time-Person-and-Place
According to Wikipedia, the idea of just-in-time only appears in three contexts: just-in-time manufacturing, a production strategy in which things are built as they are demanded; computer programming, in which just-in-time compilation…
