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As part of strategic planning group in our company, my main concern is always the sustainability of the future! We spend sleepless nights trying to figure out how the market will behave in the next 5 to 10 years (a crazy thing to do if you ask me!). We even forecast the market size and business potential along the way. In short, we struggle to predict the FUTURE.
But even experts make wrong predictions from time to time. Sadly, we all predict the future based on our history and trending. While this may hold water, it limits our imagination in so many ways. We also tend to miscalculate the power of technology to alter perspectives and paradigm shifts.
Check out the most outrageous predictions I've read over the net:
"I think there is a world market for maybe five computers." -- Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943
"There is no likehood man can ever tap the power of the atom." -- Robert Millikan, Nobel Prize in Physics, 1923
"640K ought to be enough for anybody." -- Bill Gates, 1981
"This 'telephone' has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication. The device is inherently of no value to us." -- Western Union internal memo, 1876.
"Man will never reach the moon regardless of all future scientific advances." -- Dr. Lee DeForest, Inventor of TV
"So we went to Atari and said, 'Hey, we've got this amazing thing, even built with some of your parts, and what do you think about funding us? Or we'll give it to you. We just want to do it. Pay our salary, we'll come work for you.' And they said, 'No.' So then we went to Hewlett-Packard, and they said, 'Hey, we don't need you. You haven't got through college yet.'" -- Apple Computer Inc. founder Steve Jobs on attempts to get Atari and H-P interested in his and Steve Wozniak's personal computer.
So be careful each time you make a prediction. Maybe 5 to 10 years from now you will also be here in this post =)
If you know any predictions on the future of blogging, please let me know.
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Hey guys and gals I just need your help very badly. It's kinda simple, call me stupid if you like, but I really like to solicit your help on how to manage my categories.
I already created different Post categories - Strategy, Technology, etc. but every time I create a new post I cannot seem to use these Post categories i created. I followed the post called Creating and using categories but did not work.
Hope you can help me out.
Thanks so much.
All the best
I know this one is kinda late but...bear with me.
Will Smith brings color to this amazing, fairy tale-ish, rags-to-riches struggle of Chris Gardner in his search for true "Happyness". The movie is but a glimpse of the real story and tribulations as a father, husband, employee, and more importantly as a Man.
It makes me wonder on the triumph of human spirit and the famous tag of Adidas - Impossible is Nothing.
I'm just wondering about the relevance of this inspiration in our society. I mean, do we have a Chris Gardner in this generation? How do we handle depression and failure in this digital age? Maybe blog is a good outlet but most people rely on Prozac and other CNS drugs to relieve stress and ease mental/emotional disorders. In fact, Zoloft and Prozac are the biggest brands worldwide!
Is the cliche "laughter is the best medicine" a thing of the past? Can we find creative inspiration naturally and explore the latency of being?
Nothing seems my best answer in all these questions. I think it is high time for all of us to wake and smell the roses. We might be livin and survivin in this desolate world but as long as we appreciate its beauty and tweak our perspectives, I'm pretty sure the world be a wee bit of a better place.
I guess the answer, as Mr. Bob Dylan adequately put, is blowin in the wind
To those who are quite curious to know more about the source of the "pursuit of happyness", take time to read paragraph below from the Declaration of Independence.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.
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Perhaps the biggest debate over the domain names is the rejection of the domain name .XXX by Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann).
The decision by the the US-based non-profit body that runs the domain name system to reject proposals for .xxx could have wide-reaching repercussions for how the internet is run, writes internet law professor Michael Geist.
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Good news to all AT&T subscribers!
The tie-up between AT&T and Napster is one hell of a strategy! Save $180 in subscription fee to Napster To Go and download more than 3 million song tracks starting April 1. This program is valid for one year only
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In the battle to converge mobile technology with home entertainment, CBS TV has agreed to air their television shows through wireless company, Sprint. The deal incudes episodes from Jericho, CBS Evening News with Katie Couric, The Brady Bunch, I Love Lucy, The Late Show with David Letterman, Entertainment Tonight, and The Late Show with Craig Ferguson.
The sad part is it is NOT free! Subscribers still have to pay $1.99 per viewing. Worst: the movie is good only for 24 hours unlike movie downloads from torrents and other P2P sites
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Isn't it amazing that some of the best strategies and business pointers can be summarized in a simple quote? The ability to integrate all important concepts and put it in simple terms is what we all should do to make lives easier in this digital age.
So, I will not be writing about my sentiments or business insights I learned today. Rather, I will let you internalize these powerful and inspiring business quotes lifted from FastCompany
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"Disruption theory says that products or services evolve incrementally to better meet the needs of the most demanding customers, but eventually overshoot the needs of most consumers."
Overdrive! It reminded me of a saying that even genius may have its limitations. The same principle applies in crafting our strategies and relentless attacks in the market. The newest case of overdrive now threatens Starbucks and the great coffee experience
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The changing concept of Flexitime, Work-fom-Home, and Work-Life Balance is radically creating a massive paradigm shift in the corporate setting. Before, these programs are geared towards women or mothers who have to attend several household chores for the family.
Recently, several multinational companies are encouraging men to consider work-from-home jobs on a part time basis and maximize their paternity leaves if possible. Behind these interventions is the changing roles of men in the society
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