Acceleration

How did I encourage a recent client to think about tomorrow? I told them what things would look like in exactly 10 years!

I'm a guy who, at my age, is in pretty decent physical shape and always VERY active - and now the most important thing I can do is to be intelligently inactive.

Opportunities become even bigger when exponential trends become a reality. But here's the thing - it's up to you whether you will turn it into an opportunity, or whether the challenge will bury you. It depends on the choices you make and the actions you take.

Share your flaws. Highlight your failures. Document your mistakes. Admit you are human!

In a linear world, we had "industries." Banks were banks. Car companies built cars. Hospitals treated patients. Competitors were the people who sold exactly what you sold. In an exponential world, these definitions are disappearing - because the boundaries that define an industry are disappearing.

Not only is there too much information, but much of it is crap. And pretty soon, most of it is going to be crap.