Entries in Trends (7)
Q: What innovations will drive world business in the next decade?
Dear Engaging Guru:
I’m a Strategist and Change Agent. What innovations will change business organizations and the world economy in the next decade?
JP
A: innovations that enable a human capital revolution ...
Michael Cushman
in Trends, Innovation
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Flying High, Going Low.
People learn vicariously. Remember, babies learn language by watching lips, observing adult reaching behavior and listening to the sounds from our mouths. It’s an amazing feat. Then society sends children to school to make them dumb, but that’s another story.
Adults also learn vicariously. You would think leaders would know that. Leaders model behavior for everyone they lead. The lack of awareness on the part of unscrupulous leaders, or let’s say insensitive leaders, provides observers with frequent comic relief.
Michael Cushman
in Trends, Culture, Leadership
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Deficits Gone Wild: Recession Ahead
Hurry up and Die
About six weeks ago, I wrote about the federal deficit jumping 40% in five years to $8.2 trillion, but that’s deceitful. Turns out, the real, accrued exposure is actually $46 trillion, up from $20 trillion in 2000. When accrual accounting standards, not lemonade-stand accounting practices, are applied to the federal government balance sheet, the US is headed toward a perfect storm of fiscal collapse. As a worker today, you owe $375,000. The best way to avoid paying your share is to hurry up and die before the IOU comes due. If that's not an option...
Michael Cushman
in Trends, Leadership
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Rich, Virtual Communications
If you can speak English, Mandarin, and Spanish, you can converse directly with 2/3 of the world’s people. Within a decade, nearly every human being and every manufactured good on earth will be able to directly and richly communicate with one other.
Today, a CEO of a 400 person Israeli firm won’t speak to employees by telephone. He only uses a video phone. All employees have a video camera connected to their computer. The CEO wants to look into their eyes when communicating. This is everyone’s future. Change leaders pay heed.
If you were King or Queen…Brainstorming Technique
It might seem odd to think of Kings and Queens on a site dedicated to business culture, but imagining no limitations is an excellent technique for brainstorming breakthroughs. I give people magic wands to change their lives, but when it comes to running a nation, imagining being a King or Queen gives people the feeling of absolute power over courts, legislators, and bureaucracies. If you could run your country, with absolute, and hopefully benign, power, what would you do?