2018

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A Strategic Imperative for Anticipatory Leaders Is Cognitive Performance

Daniel Burrus

By Daniel Burrus and Neil Smith. (In In this blog series on how elevating cognitive performance is a game changer for organizations, I’ve invited Neil Smith, CTO at Think Outcomes , to join me in writing on this important topic due to his expertise and the cognitive performance software his firm has created.). AI and cognitive computing have grabbed headlines. Yet, anticipatory leaders know that the elevation of cognitive performance among teams is key to maximize results.

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How would your business choose Sustainable Development Goals? Start with our ideas:

Corporate Sustainability Collabrorative

The language of sustainability can seem like an alphabet soup of acronyms, making the very personal work we do feel rather impersonal. Despite the jargon, these are acronyms that connect businesses back to one central goal – make the world a more just and secure place for all.

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Making globalisation work for all and corporate responsibility

Roel Nieuwenkamp

This article was originally published on OECDONTHELEVEL on 7 July 2018 In the first post of his Legacy Blog Series, Roel Nieuwenkamp takes a look at responsible business conduct in the broader context of trade and investment policies in the globalisation debate.

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Environmental Engineering: Why You Should Pursue It As A Career

AAEE

At the University level, there are a lot of areas you can decide to develop a career on but none has proven to be as important or vital for a healthy earth than environmental engineering.

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Which ESG Topics Get the Most Attention?

People are focusing on how companies are responding to the headline issues of the day, says a report from 3BL Media on evolving interests in ESG subjects, which also found a mismatch between the stories brands publish and topics audiences want.

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OIl Companies Admit Climate Change Is Real In Court Case

Clean Techies

A new court case has given oil companies the opportunity to admit, on the record in open court, that climate change is real. Learn the implications of this for climate, business, and investing. Sponsored Content Climate Change climate science oil companies oil industry spreadbetting

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Recycling Solutions Summit

Green Technology

Recycling, one of the most important actions we all can do to protect our existence on the planet, is in crisis and recycling plants are shutting down. In the state of California alone, more than 450 recycling plants have shut down recently and thousands of cargo containers filled with U.S. recycling that were once ready to sell to China are now sitting idly and are likely going to be sent to the landfill. One of the primary reasons that U.S.

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How Gamification Can Alter Our Behavior

Daniel Burrus

During this unique period of technology-driven transformation, the education sector has so far been slow to embrace the power of digital tools that can be used to accelerate learning. Spending time, energy and money protecting and defending conventional teaching methods only postpones the inevitable and keeps the transformative power of digital disruption, when used wisely, from taking training and education to a new level of success.

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Keeping Up is a Fool’s Game

Daniel Burrus

Many business consultants agree that benchmarking is imperative to strategic planning. By using metrics, a business will study the practices, designs, and financial outcomes of industry leaders with one distinct purpose: To keep up with the pacesetters. There’s just one problem. Keeping up—with technology, with the competition, with anything in business or life—is what some would call a fool’s game. Think about it: When you’re merely keeping up, what’s the advantage?

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Five Steps to Change Your Thinking

Daniel Burrus

When you make changes, are they coming at you from the outside in or inside out? In my 30 years of working with top leaders from business, health care, government and education, I have found that the majority of change comes from the outside in.

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Tesla Is Redefining the Customer Experience

Daniel Burrus

One of the harsh realities of this fast-paced digital world is that almost everything we buy is out of date by the time we get it home. To obtain the most value of any purchase, especially if it is an expensive one, we need to adopt a future mind-set to help us avoid picking up legacy products. Driving has long been considered a symbol of personal freedom — an open road going forward, with almost limitless possibilities and opportunities on the horizon.

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7 Trends in ESG: What PR Pros Need to Know in 2023

What does the evolution of ESG programs mean for communicators? As it turns out - a lot. New challenges are coming into focus, driven by the increasing attention to corporate sustainability and environmental, social, and governance (ESG) programs, and the evolving state of ESG reporting regulations. This new ebook from 3BL Media explores seven trends in detail and unpacks what they mean for communicators. Access your copy for free today.

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To See the Future, Think Both/And

Daniel Burrus

Whenever a new game-changing technology is introduced, our instinct is to assume that the current technology we are using will quickly become obsolete and will vanish from our use. History has shown that the hottest new breakthrough technologies do not necessarily replace older ones. Instead, they often coexist side by side because the old technology has its own unique profile of functional strengths that the new technology never fully replaces.

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How can responsible business authorities stay ahead of the curve?

Roel Nieuwenkamp

This article was originally published on OECDONTHELEVEL on 31 July 2018 In the fifth post of his Legacy Blog Series, Roel Nieuwenkamp looks at how the government authorities responsible for implementing the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises can be strengthened.

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Dig into Sustainable Development Goals on September 6:

Corporate Sustainability Collabrorative

At our last meeting we learned about the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and how they fit into the larger world of investing and reporting.

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How the Law of Opposites Propels Business Forward

Daniel Burrus

Being anticipatory often boils down to the ability to see what everyone else misses. How can you do that? One way is to simply look where no one else happens to be looking. And how and where you look can help broaden both your and your organization’s capacity for being anticipatory. Leveraging the Law of Opposites isn’t just about being contrarian or being different just for the sake of being different.

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How to Build an Evidence Base for Policies on Corporate Responsibility

Roel Nieuwenkamp

This blog was originally published on 26 January 2018 by the Institute for Human Rights and Business By Roel Nieuwenkamp, Chair, OECD Working Party on Responsible Business Conduct Last December I was asked to speak to the European Parliament to discuss trends in policies on responsible business conduct. I presented the state of play of the […

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The Best Universities To Train At As An Environmental Engineer

AAEE

Environmental engineers work to discover new ways to keep the world less polluted. They focus on applying scientific and engineering standards in an effort to protect the environment and people from the adverse effects of human and natural activities that cause pollution.

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How to Skip Your Biggest Problem (And Still See Results)

Daniel Burrus

Often, when confronted by problems, we have a tendency to work the problem. Then work it some more. And, from there, work it even more. But does working, reworking and working at it harder uncover a solution? Often, the answer is no. Instead, I like to recommend an alternative that may seem a bit outlandish to some, but is a remarkably effective strategy: Take your biggest problem and skip It. .

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Protecting Your Intellectual Property, Products and Brand

Daniel Burrus

The technology change curve continues to steepen, with an increasing number of entrepreneurs developing innovative processes, services and products. When you create and drive growth on a global basis, it’s imperative that you capture and protect your intellectual property (IP). In fact, how well you protect your intellectual property could ultimately be a major key to success. So why do so many entrepreneurs fail to adequately protect the results of their creativity?

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What’s the Value of Privacy?

Daniel Burrus

Consider these interesting statistics when it comes to privacy: Google commands 77 percent of search advertising revenue in the United States. Between them, Google and Facebook control 56 percent of the mobile advertising market. At first glance, they sound like monopolies, don’t they? And, if that’s the case, why hasn’t the government pursued action? And, of even greater importance to consumers, what is the true “price” everyone is paying for that sort of dominance?

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Artificial Intelligence: A Question of Data

Daniel Burrus

Business people, not to mention the public on a global basis, are getting increasingly excited, as well as concerned, about the potential of artificial intelligence (A.I.)—so so much so that China’s growing involvement in A.I., and the vast quantity of data that China is capable of generating on a daily basis, has many wondering if the U.S. will be a leader or follower in this important technology category as the future unfolds. Data is the fuel that feeds A.I.

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12 Technology Categories That Will Transform Careers

Daniel Burrus

As technology continues to impact our lives, workers at every level in today’s ever-changing labor market need to be prepared with skills to adapt and succeed in the workplace. The problem is, we live in an uncertain world, and because of the high levels of uncertainty we all face, people of all ages and careers are finding it difficult to know what new skills to learn, what courses to take, and what degrees to get that will provide them with the most opportunity going forward.

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Trial & Error: What Thomas Edison Can Teach Businesses Today

Daniel Burrus

The next time you turn on a light, give some thought to Thomas Edison’s view of all the trial and error that preceded his invention of the lightbulb and many other mainstays of the modern world. “I I haven’t failed,” he said. “I’ve I’ve just found ten thousand ways that don’t work.”. Edison’s comment is very much in synch with one of the central principles of the Anticipatory Organization system. First, if you’re not failing, you’re not pursuing innovation.

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Anticipation and Risk Management

Daniel Burrus

One of the central principles of the Anticipatory Organization Model is to move beyond the idea of mere competition. By that, I mean going past the idea of measuring your organization’s success and performance against others. Instead, set your own standards through transformational planning and ongoing innovation. In so doing, you redefine the concept of risk management. Risk Management Redefined.

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Will Your City Be a Smart City Soon?

Daniel Burrus

Despite the apparent trade-off between privacy and efficiency, authorities across the globe are intent on becoming known for achieving smart city status and for the right reasons. Politicians are seeing the real benefits and cost savings that smart city initiatives can provide, and as citizens we need to get used to the idea of our towns collecting and making use of more and more data to reshape the world around us for the greater good.

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A “Brandless” Form of Anticipation

Daniel Burrus

If you’re a consumer who stays on top of retail trends, you’ve likely come across a line of products whose presentation might, to some, seem stark and even boring. As the name of the company suggests, the Brandless products are packaged and sold simply for what they are. Hungry for a bag of vegetable chips? Brandless offers a bag of “vegetable chips.” Looking for hand cream to help smooth out dry skin? Brandless has a “hand cream.”

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Innovation: Everyone’s Responsibility

Daniel Burrus

Ask anyone in your organization to outline their responsibilities, and you’ll generally get the usual list—sales, marketing, employee benefits and other similar tasks. Innovation? Sorry, not on the docket. That’s somebody else’s concern. This can be a dangerous mind-set. We are living in a time of transformational innovation—not mere change, but game-changing digital disruption.

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4 Questions of World-Class Entrepreneurs

Daniel Burrus

Several years ago, I was a keynote speaker at the first world summit for Entrepreneur of the Year Award winners hosted by Ernst & Young (EY). It was held in Singapore and the theme was “Access Asia.”. It was a global summit, but the theme was on identifying new opportunities in China and India. As I talked to the award winners and other leaders in attendance, I noticed that one word kept standing out.

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Premortems: Reflections of the Future, Not the Past

Daniel Burrus

Most everyone is familiar with postmortems, at least in a medical sense. With regard to medicine, a postmortem is conducted to determine why a person has died. Postmortems can be valuable in all sorts of ways, including research into disease and medications, and other important scientific goals. The problem is there’s just one person who doesn’t stand to benefit from a postmortem: The person lying on the table.

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The Power of Pre Mortems

Daniel Burrus

In a medical setting, a post mortem has a rather grisly context—an examination to determine a person’s cause of death and other contributing medical factors. But post mortems also exist within businesses and organizations of all sorts. Post mortems are reviews of product or service launches, projects, campaigns and other activities after they have either been in place for a certain period of time, completed or discontinued.

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Crisis Manager or Opportunity Manager? You Decide.

Daniel Burrus

We all manage something or other, whether it’s other people, an entire organization, sales or even just ourselves. Managing suggests careful planning, a well-thought-out direction and a sense of control. What if we applied that definition of management to opportunity? What if we identified and acted upon opportunity much in the same way as we might manage a meeting, a project or some other form of responsibility?

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The Disrupted or the Disruptor: Pick One

Daniel Burrus

What comes to mind when you hear the term “disrupt”? Does it suggest chaos, lack of direction or other unsettling events? Or do you see it from the other side of the coin—when you’re the one causing the disruption and, as a result, leveraging the opportunity that results? If your organization has an anticipatory mentality, disruption is often synonymous with opportunity—that is, if you’re able to accurately anticipate the future and plan to act on it accordingly instead of merely reacting.

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Leave Benchmarks Behind

Daniel Burrus

No matter the industry or particular field, competition is the business of the day. Regardless of what you and your organization do in terms of products or services, there’s inevitably someone else offering a competitive alternative. Your goal is to “beat” those competitors, however that might be measured—greater sales, more customers, whatever the benchmark. But what if you could move beyond the idea of competition?

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Digital Disruption and Your Workforce

Daniel Burrus

Being anticipatory can mean many things. In some cases, it’s about identifying opportunities for major digital disruption that you yourself can introduce (think Uber, Kickstarter and other innovations that set entire industries on their ear.). But being anticipatory also means being aware of outside disruptions that may impact you—and how to prepare accordingly. To that end, let’s consider the relationship between digital disruption and the people in your organization.

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Boosting the Shopping Experience

Daniel Burrus

Estimates hold that more data will be produced in 2018 than in all years previously. Much of that is consumer-focused—what we buy, how we buy it and why we buy it, among other information. Thanks to the leverage and insight afforded by big data analytics, retailers of all sorts have the ability to enjoy an enormous opportunity to better focus and improve their customers’ overall shopping experience.

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TUTORIAL MENCARI PERMAINAN YANG BENAR DI PKV GAMES

Green Technology

TUTORIAL MENCARI PERMAINAN YANG BENAR DI PKV GAMES. Cara menabalkan permainan yang jelas di pkv games! Dalam permainan pkv games, kita mampu mengetahui bahwa sedianya ada banyak sungguh jenis permainan yang tersedia dan mampu kita mainkan. Malahan banyak di renggangan pemain khususnya pembimbing mereka yang tetap bingung dalam mengukuhkan pilihan permainan manakah yang harus mereka main.

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