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Thursday, May 6, 2010
Many Environmental Elements Contribute to Increasing Cancer - In the US and in Other Industrialized Nations
Many Environmental Elements Contribute to Increasing Cancer in the United States - And In Other Technologically-Advanced or Advancing Countries.
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May 6th, 2010
Dear Readers:
Aside from the factors traditionally associated with causing cancer, such as smoking, asbestos inhalation,, working in close proximity with radiation equipment and excessive exposure to sunlight, a recent study reported by REUTERS News Agency and re-prinited in Yahoo! News points out a number of ambient (environmental) and lifestyle (technological habits and dependencies) factors which could be tremendously increasing this risk.
While some of these factors are not within the realm of our control, some of them can be minimized by our being aware of the hazards which they may pose and by simply minimizing our exposure to them.
An extract of the article follows for your review.
Faithfully,
Douglas Castle
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Americans "bombarded" with cancer causes: government panel
By Maggie Fox, Health and Science Editor 48 mins ago
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Americans are being "bombarded" with chemicals, gases and radiation that can cause cancer, and the federal government must do far more to protect them, presidential cancer advisers said on Thursday.Although as many as two-thirds of cancer cases are caused by lifestyle choices like smoking, poor diet and lack of exercise, the panel said many avoidable cancers were also caused by pollution, radon from the soil and medical imaging scans.
Since so little is known about the possible risks of cell phones, people would be prudent to wear headsets and make calls quickly, the two members of the panel advised.
"The panel was particularly concerned to find that the true burden of environmentally induced cancer has been grossly underestimated," they wrote in the report, available at http://pcp.cancer.gov/ .
The report is sure to stun industry and many cancer specialists. It has already delighted environmental groups, which have had hints for more than a week of the report's content.
The American Cancer Society said the report downplayed known risks that cause most cases of cancer including tobacco, obesity, alcohol, infections, hormones and sunlight.
"The report is most provocative when it restates hypotheses as if they were established facts," the group's Dr. Michael Thun said in a statement.
"For example, its conclusion that 'the true burden of environmentally (pollution) induced cancer has been grossly underestimated' does not represent scientific consensus. Rather, it reflects one side of a scientific debate that has continued for almost 30 years."
The two sitting members of the panel -- the third seat is empty -- are Dr. LaSalle Leffall, professor of surgery at Howard University College of Medicine in Washington and Margaret Kripke, an emeritus professor at the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center.
It is the first time the panel has taken such a sharp turn into what had long been disputed territory -- whether pollution, cell phones and even household objects, such as water bottles, can cause cancer.
Cancer is the No. 2 killer of Americans, after heart disease. "The incidence of some cancers, including some most common among children, is increasing for unexplained reasons," the report reads.
"With nearly 80,000 chemicals on the market in the United States, many of which are used by millions of Americans in their daily lives and are un- or understudied and largely unregulated, exposure to potential environmental carcinogens is widespread," it adds.
"The American people -- even before they are born -- are bombarded continually with myriad combinations of these dangerous exposures," Kripke and Leffall wrote in a letter to President Barack Obama at top of the report.
"The panel urges you most strongly to use the power of your office to remove the carcinogens and other toxins from our food, water, and air that needlessly increase healthcare costs, cripple our nation's productivity, and devastate American lives."
Some specific advice from the report:
* Increase, broaden and improve research regarding environmental contaminants and human health.
* Raise consumer awareness of environmental cancer risks and improve understanding and reporting of known exposures.
* Do more to eliminate unnecessary radiation-emitting medical tests, and to ensure that radiation doses are as low as possible without sacrificing quality.
* Aggressively address the toxic environmental exposures the U.S. military has caused, and do more to help affected military personnel and civilians.
(Editing by Chris Wilson)
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Wednesday, May 5, 2010
Words Of Caution To The Intelligence Community and to Management - Douglas Castle
Words Of Caution To The Intelligence Community and to Management - Douglas Castle
Dear Friends, Colleagues and all Others who Honor me by Their Reading:
Trust is a touchy and tricky issue.
Some months ago, several CIA employees and operatives were massacred at an overseas station by a fellow whom they truly believed was acting as their double agent - a "converted" and "reprogrammed" former terrorist operative, who was given the opportunity to work for the CIA by gathering intelligence from his old contacts and reporting back to the CIA. This particular individual should not have been in a position of trust, was not "reformed" (this word is almost a self-parody), was embittered and probably divulged CIA secrets to the persons upon whom he was supposed to be spying. The coupe de gras, of course, was his ultimate murder of his CIA colleagues.
Perhaps he was not converted, reprogrammed or even refocused. He was the most dangerous person to have in your inner circle - the "presumed" convert. This tragedy or poorly-gauged loyalties and misplaced trust is far more common than one would think. In the U.S., we had a massacre of soldiers at Fort Hood by one of their comrades who was an ardent, vocal protester against U.S. Military policy in the middleast, Afghanistan, Iraq and Iran.
Place your trust in only a few very carefully-screened individuals. Test them on small missions and observe their conduct and results. Test them repeatedly and frequently. Take their every utterance (even offhanded, or said in the spirit of jest) carefully. Take their histories and childhood experiences, training and educations into account.
The most dangerous enemy is 1) very intelligent, 2) finds his/her way into our trusted inner circle (some people are amazingly good actors, and are possess a natural talent to infiltrate and engender rapport), and 3) has a destructive agenda.
The enemy whom we do not recognize as an enemy is highly dangerous.
The enemy whom we have come to believe is a friend is deadly.
People who are intently devoted to an idea or ideology, or people whom have lost a loved one at the hands of the minions of an agency are not easily converted or reformed. They are deeply programmed, and this programming is further seasoned with an unresolved desire for vengeance (typically Human) which often is more deeply entrenched by the passage of time and a feeling of impotence or helplessness to serve a childhood master, to honor a martyred friend, or to avenge the death of a family member.
A "manufactured" ally --- an "ally" who is seemingly deafeated by emotional or physical torture, and then seemingly "rebuilt" to work for those whom have done him or her serious damage, can be the most crippling force to be unleashed close to home.
The Stockholm Syndrome is not as powerful or as permanent as people would think; however never, ever underestimate the bitterness, determination and lethal motivation of a person who feels that he or she was punished unjustly or unfairly, and never, ever underestimate the persistence of deeply ingrained memories of loss or pain. Hatred can be deeply concealed.
As any well-seasoned sadistic torturer ultimately learns, a victim will sometimes say anything that he or she believes that the captors want to hear in order to simply stop the pain.
Faithfully,
Douglas Castle
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Tuesday, May 4, 2010
The BLUE TUESDAY Report, 05.04.2010 - Condensed RSS Version
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Monday, May 3, 2010
The Latest WFS 25-Year Forecast: Douglas Castle's Commentary on Short-Term versus Long-Term Forecasts
25-Year Trend Forecast Summary - Provided by THE WORLD FUTURE SOCIETY
Dear Friends, Futurists and Internationalists:
I am not necessarily in agreement with all of the trends cited (or hypothesized) by The World Future Society, but they are one of the many sources from which I derive my trend analyses and predictions. At most, some of what they touch upon in their newsletter promotion (re-published below) will come to pass -- at very least, WFS provides some very good, highly imaginative fuel for thought. I have taken the liberty of re-posting Thomas Mack's letter in its entirety, with a live hyperlink embedded within it to get you to see some of what WFS believes the future holds for us. Generally speaking it is wise to bear the following parameters in mind when evaluating any forecast offered by any Futurist:
1. Shorter-term forecasts (one to five years) tend to be more immediately useful and more probable, while the longer-range forecasts tend to be more a study in imagination than in statistical extrapolation.
2. Despite the inherent uncertainties and difficulties associated with longer-term forecasts (ten to fifty years), they have the possibility of actually shaping the future by occasionally introducing an idea which incites innovation and the ultimate manifestation of a self-fulfilling prophesy. It is the natural propensity of some early initiators and entrepreneurial spirits to seize upon a good idea and to make it into a reality, thereby actually having made the future conform to certain predictions.
Having said all of this, please enjoy what follows.
Faithfully,
Douglas Castle
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WINNING IS NOT...
"Winning is not the only thing, but kindness is everything."
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Your action for today is to go out of your way to be kind to someone.
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Magazine Editor, Rob Gilbert
Your action for today is to go out of your way to be kind to someone.
Click *here* to find out more about QuoteActions and some of the other innovative products and services offered by THE NATIONAL NETWORKER.
As the creator of the QuoteActions, a unique relationship building system, Rick Itzkowich finds his articles, podcasts and blog messages regarding keeping your brand "top of mind" in high demand. His latest eBook, Social Networking for Business Profits, uses cost-effective follow up strategies. Rick is also the Co-founder and Vice President of Productive Learning & Leisure, a personal development training company for corporations and individuals. Rick can be reached at rick@productivelearning.com.
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Growing Dependencies/ Growing Risks/ Growing Opportunities.
Growing Dependencies/ Growing Risks/ Growing Opportunities.
From THE GLOBAL FUTURIST (http://TheGlobalFuturist.blogspot.com) in conjunction with The National Networker Companies at http://www.TheNationalNetworker.com with all rights reserved.
Dear Friends and Fellow Futurists:
I won't waste time debating about whether or not the US is actually in an economic recovery, or about whether or not Europe (particularly Portugal, Geece and some of the Mediterranean countries) is falling further into one -- at this point, these things are issues of semantics, propaganda and wild conjecture. I believe that an economic recovery involves 1) employment and jobs creation; 2) an increase in the use of existing industrial capacity; 3) an internationally highly-regarded sovereign credit rating; 4) an increase in the median amount of disposable personal income, and; 5) an increase in the median rate of savings. In the words of great American Statesman, Meritorious Philosopher and Student of Humanity (Forrest Gump), "and that's all I have to say about that."
I won't discuss energy alternatives, offshore drilling, a "greener" lifestyle, iPads, corporate corruption or cloud computing. I just wanted to focus on dependencies; in particular, I wanted to discuss communications, formatting dependencies, server dependencies, data storage, list management services, button and blog platform dependencies and data manipulation and management ("M and M").
Many large corporations, government agencies (even the national defense systems of a number of countries) have become totally dependent upon these independent (and often free or minimally-priced) media services such as Google, Blogger, Feedburner, Twitter, FaceBook, Skype, Citrix, YouTube, and a number of others. While companies and governments are enjoying all of these wonderful utilities, they have 1) become totally dependent upon each of them as a soul-source provider, and they have also 2) given them unrestricted access to mailing lists, trade secrets, and other valuable proprietary information.
As a Global Futurist, my contention is that enterprises have given over substantially all of their power, information and access to the service providers. This is colossal exposure.
If one of these providers started charging exhorbitant rates for what used to be a free service, what are the users to do? If one of these providers decides to sell or otherwise use your information for nefarious purposes (unsolicited advertising, list brokering, data mining, et. cetera) what are your practical defenses? If one of these service providers had a glitch and eradicated all of your crucial information (quite by accident), what would you do? If one of these service providers just decided to go out of business, what would you do? By analogy, think of rising oil and gasoline prices, the wholesale failure of our trusted financial instituions (as well as their capricious volatility and the devastating effect which they have had on the economy).
Growing dependencies become growing risks. While they are in large part unavoidable, they can be mitigated with means of independently backing up data, applications, mailing lists and other information and formats.
Expect to hear al gret deal during the next three years about these large providers acting like bully monopolists. Their shares will tend to do relatively well in the eqiuties markets (as they are always in the news and are, by their nature, self-promoting), but they will perceived as increasingly menacing bullies.
Free services are not permanently free. They are free during their beta-testing phases, while they are achieving great user growth and volume, and while they can afford to be. Bit invariably, investors want to see a return on their capital invested. When this happens, the end-users will have already become a captive audience (rather like prisoners), will be unable to assemble enough power and influence to push these newly-monetizing into sensibility and compassion.
Expect to also hear about the emergence of fail-safe various data and format back-up services -- principly, new enterprises coming into being to protect the end-users from the threat of business devastation at the hands of these utilities as the warnings about outages (remember Enron in California?), increased charges and increasing demands upon users grow, as these once geek-driven friendly utilities start wanting to pay their venture capital providers back. The increase in conglomeration and consolidation of these computer utilities titans will make the threat increasingly more serious, adding an element of opportunism and initiative to the end-user population.
You might consider either 1) starting up a company that specializes in backup solutions; 2) investing in a company which is developing (as a DSE - developmental stage enterprise) these solutions; 3) being prepared by keeping a Futuristic eye on the companies, and engaging with them. You'll likely consider becoming a client.
In this case, I request that you begin backing up your data, presentation formats and and all of your information, as well as all of your proprietary and precious systems.
Trite, but appropriate:
Faithfully,
Douglas Castle
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NOTE: Information on some of my other blogs and media sites follows below this line of text. Please feel free to explore my blogs and other media. You might even take a gander (or a gosling, or perhaps a furtive glance) at Adam J. Kovitz' s personal blog, which can be found at http://adamjkovitz.blogspot.com/.
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From THE GLOBAL FUTURIST (http://TheGlobalFuturist.blogspot.com) in conjunction with The National Networker Companies at http://www.TheNationalNetworker.com with all rights reserved.
Dear Friends and Fellow Futurists:
I won't waste time debating about whether or not the US is actually in an economic recovery, or about whether or not Europe (particularly Portugal, Geece and some of the Mediterranean countries) is falling further into one -- at this point, these things are issues of semantics, propaganda and wild conjecture. I believe that an economic recovery involves 1) employment and jobs creation; 2) an increase in the use of existing industrial capacity; 3) an internationally highly-regarded sovereign credit rating; 4) an increase in the median amount of disposable personal income, and; 5) an increase in the median rate of savings. In the words of great American Statesman, Meritorious Philosopher and Student of Humanity (Forrest Gump), "and that's all I have to say about that."
I won't discuss energy alternatives, offshore drilling, a "greener" lifestyle, iPads, corporate corruption or cloud computing. I just wanted to focus on dependencies; in particular, I wanted to discuss communications, formatting dependencies, server dependencies, data storage, list management services, button and blog platform dependencies and data manipulation and management ("M and M").
Many large corporations, government agencies (even the national defense systems of a number of countries) have become totally dependent upon these independent (and often free or minimally-priced) media services such as Google, Blogger, Feedburner, Twitter, FaceBook, Skype, Citrix, YouTube, and a number of others. While companies and governments are enjoying all of these wonderful utilities, they have 1) become totally dependent upon each of them as a soul-source provider, and they have also 2) given them unrestricted access to mailing lists, trade secrets, and other valuable proprietary information.
As a Global Futurist, my contention is that enterprises have given over substantially all of their power, information and access to the service providers. This is colossal exposure.
If one of these providers started charging exhorbitant rates for what used to be a free service, what are the users to do? If one of these providers decides to sell or otherwise use your information for nefarious purposes (unsolicited advertising, list brokering, data mining, et. cetera) what are your practical defenses? If one of these service providers had a glitch and eradicated all of your crucial information (quite by accident), what would you do? If one of these service providers just decided to go out of business, what would you do? By analogy, think of rising oil and gasoline prices, the wholesale failure of our trusted financial instituions (as well as their capricious volatility and the devastating effect which they have had on the economy).
Growing dependencies become growing risks. While they are in large part unavoidable, they can be mitigated with means of independently backing up data, applications, mailing lists and other information and formats.
Expect to hear al gret deal during the next three years about these large providers acting like bully monopolists. Their shares will tend to do relatively well in the eqiuties markets (as they are always in the news and are, by their nature, self-promoting), but they will perceived as increasingly menacing bullies.
Free services are not permanently free. They are free during their beta-testing phases, while they are achieving great user growth and volume, and while they can afford to be. Bit invariably, investors want to see a return on their capital invested. When this happens, the end-users will have already become a captive audience (rather like prisoners), will be unable to assemble enough power and influence to push these newly-monetizing into sensibility and compassion.
Expect to also hear about the emergence of fail-safe various data and format back-up services -- principly, new enterprises coming into being to protect the end-users from the threat of business devastation at the hands of these utilities as the warnings about outages (remember Enron in California?), increased charges and increasing demands upon users grow, as these once geek-driven friendly utilities start wanting to pay their venture capital providers back. The increase in conglomeration and consolidation of these computer utilities titans will make the threat increasingly more serious, adding an element of opportunism and initiative to the end-user population.
You might consider either 1) starting up a company that specializes in backup solutions; 2) investing in a company which is developing (as a DSE - developmental stage enterprise) these solutions; 3) being prepared by keeping a Futuristic eye on the companies, and engaging with them. You'll likely consider becoming a client.
In this case, I request that you begin backing up your data, presentation formats and and all of your information, as well as all of your proprietary and precious systems.
Trite, but appropriate:
Faithfully,
Douglas Castle
p.s. If you've not already done so, please join us (at no cost) as a Member of The National Networker Companies -- join us today at: http://bit.ly/JoinTNNWC
NOTE: Information on some of my other blogs and media sites follows below this line of text. Please feel free to explore my blogs and other media. You might even take a gander (or a gosling, or perhaps a furtive glance) at Adam J. Kovitz' s personal blog, which can be found at http://adamjkovitz.blogspot.com/.
About Douglas Castle
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THE NATIONAL NETWORKER WEEKLY NEWSLETTER, ARTICLES AND UPDATES 05.2.2010 - [CONDENSED VERSION FOR RSS]
THE NATIONAL NETWORKER WEEKLY NEWSLETTER, ARTICLES AND UPDATES 05.2.2010 - [CONDENSED VERSION FOR RSS]
A NOTE FROM THE CHAIRMAN: Where's the Trust?
Adam J. Kovitz
Update Bulletin
UPDATE: Getting Real --Thinking BIG, Doing BIG and Packaging BIG: Strategies For Entrepreneurs and Emerging Enterprises RIGHT NOW. - 05.02.2010
Douglas Castle
In the Spotlight: Special Featured Articles
BEYOND THE CUBICLE – CORPORATE CULTURE: Brick & Mortar Vs. No Boundaries, Part 1
Teri Aulph
CONNECTING IS NOT ENOUGH: It's a Question of Trust - A Conversation with Vanessa Hall, Part 1
Andy Lopata
Featured Columns
VENTURE FINANCE – REALITY VS. RUMOR: About Angels & VC’s
Dick Brown
DOUGLAS CASTLE RANTS: Sorting Through "Extreme News" From Left, Right and Center
Douglas Castle
SALES AND MARKETING: 7 Keys To Marketing Success, Part 2 of 2
Bill Doerr
THE POINT: It’s in the American DNA to Speak Our Mind – And, Today’s Political Debate is On!
Brenda Kruger Huffman
BEING THERE WHEN IT COUNTS: How Saving Three Lives Led to a Sale
Rick Itzkowich
THE ENTREPRENEURIAL GUIDE TO ENTERTAINMENT: Get a College Degree in FUN
Sandy McKee
POWER THOUGHT OF THE WEEK: Powerful Words, Part 1
Patricia Parham, Ph.D.
KALÖN WOMEN: IQ + EQ = LEADERSHIP - The New Decade’s Must
Dickie Sykes
A NOTE FROM THE CHAIRMAN: Where's the Trust?
Adam J. Kovitz
Update Bulletin
UPDATE: Getting Real --Thinking BIG, Doing BIG and Packaging BIG: Strategies For Entrepreneurs and Emerging Enterprises RIGHT NOW. - 05.02.2010
Douglas Castle
In the Spotlight: Special Featured Articles
BEYOND THE CUBICLE – CORPORATE CULTURE: Brick & Mortar Vs. No Boundaries, Part 1
Teri Aulph
CONNECTING IS NOT ENOUGH: It's a Question of Trust - A Conversation with Vanessa Hall, Part 1
Andy Lopata
Featured Columns
VENTURE FINANCE – REALITY VS. RUMOR: About Angels & VC’s
Dick Brown
DOUGLAS CASTLE RANTS: Sorting Through "Extreme News" From Left, Right and Center
Douglas Castle
SALES AND MARKETING: 7 Keys To Marketing Success, Part 2 of 2
Bill Doerr
THE POINT: It’s in the American DNA to Speak Our Mind – And, Today’s Political Debate is On!
Brenda Kruger Huffman
BEING THERE WHEN IT COUNTS: How Saving Three Lives Led to a Sale
Rick Itzkowich
THE ENTREPRENEURIAL GUIDE TO ENTERTAINMENT: Get a College Degree in FUN
Sandy McKee
POWER THOUGHT OF THE WEEK: Powerful Words, Part 1
Patricia Parham, Ph.D.
KALÖN WOMEN: IQ + EQ = LEADERSHIP - The New Decade’s Must
Dickie Sykes
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Sunday, May 2, 2010
UPDATE: Getting Real -- Thinking BIG, Doing BIG and Packaging BIG: Strategies For Emerging Enterpises RIGHT NOW.
UPDATE: Getting Real --Thinking BIG, Doing BIG and Packaging BIG: Strategies For Entrepreneurs and Emerging Enterprises RIGHT NOW.
05.02.2010 - Douglas Castle
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STRATEGY: Thinking BIG, Doing BIG and Packaging BIG: Strategies For Emerging Enterpises RIGHT NOW - Douglas Castle
Note: This briefing was inspired by a series of revelatory discussions which I have recently had with Adam J. Kovitz. Our mutual conclusion: The traditional small business is not where the growth and investment opportunities are going to be. Small business will be outpaced and overrun by Emerging Enterprises.
Dear Members, Readers, Colleagues and Friends:
Welcome to the spellbinding new world of extremes.
Super rich and dirt poor. Above the law, and under its whip. Too big to fail, and too small to survive. Big government and big business doing a great deal of fraternizing -- rather like a mating dance. Tremendous costs (taxes, compliance, systems, employees compensation, heath insurance, liability insurance, bank fees, tight credit, lack of personal services, lack of support...) associated with building a business.
A world of five roads, where you may:
1. Work for the government, or for a government contractor;
2. Work at the uppermost level of a well-entrenched, handful of white-shoe firms that are (hopefully) too big to fail, and interminably eligible for government bail;
3. Live on the dole, on the run, or in proud poverty;
4. Be a trust-fund baby -- go to school, socialize, and deal in abstractions and narcissistic diversions, or;
5. Be an entrepreneur, and the steward of an emerging enterprise.
Small businesses used to provide most of the employment, innovation and investment opportunities in the industrialized nations. But small businesses, like corporate middle management and the economic middle class are largely becoming extinct, with only a few necessary exceptions. Starting a new business is a daunting task, and the odds are against you. Customer loyalty is more difficult than ever to win, and the prevalence of e-commerce and social media have stolen much of the edge that you may once have had because of a great location, a novel product, or a warm, personal relationship with your customers and clients.
There is more mouse-clicking than hand-shaking. Recently Eli Regalado, a colleague and a champion of the notion of collaboration, metioned offhandedly to me, "I'm not worried. You're only one mouse click away." Sometime ago, I was a phone call away, or a visit away.
An entrepreneur invariably feels lonely in the crowd. A seedling business cannot grow if it cannot be watered and properly nurtured. And there is so much sensorial overload through all of the media channels that it has become increasingly difficult to be heard.
My advice --- don't start a business from scratch, with limited resources, and unlimited effort (as I write this, I am actually taking my blood pressure cuff off).
The new entrepreneur must think in a different way and build in a different way. And he or she cannot be a "small biz." I am not talking about a specialized business with a well-defined vertical customer market, or a specialty geographical locus...I am talking about a small business in the traditional, even stereotypical sense.
We must build faster, bigger, more efficiently and more brilliantly than ever before. We do not have the luxury of time, working capital or other advantages -- and with less time and less money, we have to make up the 'shortfall' by being accurate and effective strategists and a collaborators. To make things even tougher, too many service providers are offering all kinds of useful tools (products and services) for free. If we want to be paid for any product or service, we must show exceptional value. We must not only serve a market, but we must differentiate our braned by serving the market in a distinctly different way.
We cannot undertake the construction of an emerging enterprise alone. The rules have changed, and we must understand them and work with them if you aspire to achieve great things.
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Here are two very basic tips with respect to starting and growing an emerging enterprise, both of which I have derived through my analysis of various social and business trends in The Global Futurist:
1) Think big. Don't look at how you'll make a sale, or train an employee, or roll out a new product, or decorate your office, or "spread the word" -- Look at a type of service or product that you wish to provide and identify your customer market and plan to pursue that market on a grand scale. Your plan is to acquire the greatest percentage share of that market and to do so at a profit. Period.
2) Don't reinvent. Cooperate and Collaborate. Find businesses which each contain modules of what you'll need, and partner them together by co-venture or acquisition. For example, if I wish to reach a particular market sector, and I know of a company that sells a product or service which doesn't compete with mine but has an established opt-in subscriber/customer base of 500,000 people, I have identified a prospective ally -- we can help each other. Building an emerging enterprise and a client base "from scratch" is like building with sand and Elmer's glue, while building an emergin enterprise by collaboration and consolidation is the metaphorical equivalent of putting up a pre-fabricated home.
- Douglas Castle
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Left, Right and Center - A Powerful Intelligence Tool.
Sorting Through "Extreme News" From Left, Right and Center - A Crucial Skill-Builder At Trend-Spotting and for Strategic Planning.
Author's Note: Every entrepreneur, and every single emerging enterprise requires management, market research, marketing, publicity, branding and a constant re-evaluation of potential future trends. If you are so biased that you deliberately exclude (adversely select against) "radical" or "extremist" publications which don't conform to your pre-existing views, you will merely be recycling your own brand of stupidity -- some call this "the kindling of circular intelligence." Get outside the coffin of comfort and look at what extremist, activist and super-partisan organizations are up to.
The key is to be open to information which comes from any and all sources...to be able to detach yourself emotionally from the political or other agendas of their writers, publishers and promoters, and to gather intelligence which may be actionable.
Every leader, manager, marketing director, financial officer, planning officer, product or service developer must be as an objective Information Hound, to the greatest extent possible.
If you limit your total news intake, you limit your knowledge base, thinking, insight, intellectual growth, analytic ability and efficacy, and ability to survive and thrive. I can read the SPECTATOR, MOTHER JONES, THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR, BUZZFLASH BULLETIN and THE ROLLING STONE in one sitting. I can listen to NPR as well as a series of Sunday morning sermons, deluxe with sulfur and brimstone. I've watched Limbaugh and Bill Maher (but then again, I've also watched Dexter and Everyone Loves Raymond...)
When it comes to the necessary job of futurism, more information is always better. Learn to expose your yourself to more input, while trusting that your character and judgment will not be hurt in the process. In fact, this testing will get you more in tune with who you truly are -- and that is a wonderful thing. - DC
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Dear Readers:
Some interesting headlines and brief articles from some of the more "extreme" news sources (actually, in many cases these are more appropriately called conjecture sources) may prove to be a fountain of some useful information. Understand that in every article, there is a grain of truth (an initiating spark, fear, or observation which inspired the writer) and a large element of propaganda. The trick is to separate the elements of truth from the surrounding rhetoric. One of the means of doing this is by rudimentary correlative analysis....for example, if two politically opposed groups speak of the same subject and make similar observations about its implications, you might have unearthed a piece of truth.
If two adversaries agree on a common problem or a common trend -- it is invariably one worth watching. Finding these areas of informational intersection is one of a true intelligence analyst or Global Futurist's most important skills. I'll admit that sometimes it is a bit of a stomach-turner to read through the accusations, recriminations, bigotry and hate-speak. But the gold which you will pan from this stream of compost is still gold.
This is a great skill, and a great exercise. Use this analysis tool often, and your abilities to see through the smoke to the spark will increase appreciably.
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More Info + More sources + Rudimentary Correlative Analysis = Better planning for your life and your business.
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