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The Value of Vision Series – Daniel Burrus

Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

Futureview is your ability to project yourself into the future and then look back at your present position from that future point of view. A few years ago, I had the opportunity to converse with Neil Armstrong, the first man to set foot on the moon. The truly crazy thing, of course, is that we did. Making the Impossible Possible.

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What Your Moonshot Can Learn from the Apollo Program

Harvard Business Review

Project Apollo Archive/NASA. In January Google ended Project Titan, an initiative to blanket the earth in Wi-Fi with the help of solar-powered drones. It was the latest in a series of Google’s moonshot projects being closed. How can we get the moonshot formula right to unlock this approach to groundbreaking innovation?

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The Next Wave of Hospital Innovation to Make Patients Safer

Harvard Business Review

We propose that older approaches to advancing surgical safety, focused on technical and structural improvements, have passed their peak; attention must now turn to innovations in how people enact their work “on the ground,” or how they organize in real time for reliable surgical performance. Standardizing procedures.

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Loud and Clear: Six Tips for Communicating in a Way That Truly.

Strategy Driven

Think about it this way: You likely spend countless hours collaborating and innovating to put forth really good ideas. For example, Neil Armstrong used the six hours and forty minutes between his moon landing and first step to craft his historic statement. Use catchy words. Take time to carefully craft a few messages with catchy words.

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Small Businesses Need Big Data, Too

Harvard Business Review

Our three-year project was designed to build awareness among small firms about the value that data could have for their businesses. They were able to envision long-range innovations, rather than reacting to competitors’ or the retailers’ actions. A key reason why this project worked was the one-to-one help for the owner-managers.

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Healthy Habits Of Successful Leaders – An Expert Roundup

Joseph Lalonde

Steven Armstrong of StevenArmstrong.ca. Sandip Roy of Happiness India Project. I don’t do anything related to my work (web development/programming), including work on my own hobby projects. Knowing where I am with any and all projects is my responsibility, and this planning habit keeps me connected to what matters most.

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A Short History of Radio Explains the iPhone’s Success

Harvard Business Review

What has escaped attention is that the device burst into a sector long insulated from the slightest threat of disruptive innovation. Armstrong’s Killer App. Edwin Howard Armstrong was a science prodigy. All Armstrong needed was a radio spectrum for his radios. ” It was not established AM, but FM.