Flash Foresight: How to See the Invisible and Do the Impossible
Daniel Burrus, John David Mann
Language: English
Pages: 304
ISBN: 0061922293
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
Flash Foresight offers seven radical principles you need to transform your business today. From internationally renowned technology forecaster Daniel Burrus—a leading consultant to Google, Proctor & Gamble, IBM, and many other Fortune 500 firms—with John David Mann, co-author of the Wall Street Journal bestseller The Go-Giver, comes this systematic, easy-to-implement method for identifying new business opportunities and solving difficult problems in the twenty-first century marketplace.
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Seven Radical Principles That will Transform Your Business Flash Foresight How to See the Invisible and Do the Impossible Daniel Burrus with John David Mann DEDICATION To my wife, my soul mate, my best friend, and biggest fan, Sharon: you are a constant source of love and inspiration. And to the millions of people around the world who have been in my audiences, read my books, and taken action on the ideas I sparked in their minds. It is your
density—and lo and behold, it produces a net positive yield: more energy coming out than it takes to make the reaction. Potentially, says Dale, vastly more. Imagine the impact such a technology would have on the world. For all practical purposes, there would be no more energy crisis. Oil-producing nations would become just nations like any other—still producing oil, but no longer supplying the bulk of our energy needs. We would have enough energy to fuel our
degraded or digested paper pulp, or practically anything,” says Meyer. At $30 a barrel, the process is quite cost-competitive. It uses about one-quarter the water of an agricultural crop on the same land footprint, and has a yield of about 33,000 gallons of oil per acre-foot of water (given the depth of their algae ponds, that’s about one-fifth of an acre of land). In large-scale trials with JB Hunt, the trucking company that handles much of Wal-Mart’s business, the product performed
and interest rates rise and fall; Democrats rule Congress, then Republicans. There is a push toward the apparent safety of totalitarianism, and then a counterpush toward the greater personal freedoms of liberalism. Social standards grow more permissive, then more restrictive, and then back toward more permissive. The pendulum swings until it can swing no further, then reverses course and backtracks. Politically, economically, socially, in every channel of human expression, we manifest with a
energy storage systems.”7 The new battery is composed of extremely thin layers of conducting polymer just forty to fifty nanometers or billionths of a meter wide coating algae cellulose fibers only twenty to thirty nanometers wide that were collected into paper sheets. “They’re very easy to make,” says Strømme. “You don’t need advanced equipment.” The researchers are exploring new applications where batteries are not currently being used at all. “What if you could put batteries
