Flash Foresight

Provides the skills and techniques that everyone can use to harness change and become masters of their own futures. This title introduces numerous real people and organisations - from nurses and educators to Amazon, Crocs, Netflix, and Zappos - who have discovered how to find real solutions and achieve the impossible. Today we all face more impossible challenges than ever before. But flash foresight lets you transform the impossible into the possible, revealing hidden opportunities and allowing you to solve your biggest problems—before they happen. Daniel Burrus is one of the world's leading forecasters, corporate strategists, and visionaries. Over the past quarter century, he has established a reputation worldwide for his exceptional record of accurately predicting the future of technological change and its direct impact on the business world. "Wouldn't it be amazing if you could predict the future—and be right?" writes Burrus. "You can: all you have to do is leave out the parts you could be wrong about! And the amazing thing is, when you know where to look, there's more than enough you can be right about to make all the difference." From small businesses to multinationals, individual careers to entire industries, Flash Foresight looks at how Burrus's seven radical flash foresight "triggers" have transformed dozens of careers, fortunes, and lives. Both engaging and enlightening, Flash Foresight provides an easy-to-implement blueprint for applying the same strategies to your own business, enabling you to see the invisible and do the impossible. In the past, flash foresight was useful. Today, as the pace of technological change accelerates almost beyond the point of comprehension, it's an imperative. The pace and intensity of change is paralysing many of today's executives and managers. But what if we could accurately foresee what's ahead and use that insight to anticipate and take advantage of opportunities-or prevent major problems from happening? Internationally renowned technology forecaster and corporate strategist Daniel Burrus specialises in solving impossible problems by seeing invisible solutions, and has earned a reputation for accurately predicting the future of technological change and its direct impact on the business world. In "Flash Foresight", Burrus reverse-engineers his predictive and strategic process, providing the skills and techniques everyone can use to harness change and become masters of their own futures. "Flash foresight" is what you get when you combine a shift of perspective, to look at things from a fresh point of view, with a grasp of where current trends of change are taking us in the future,Burrus writes. 'It's about transforming the impossible with a glimpse of the possible. "Flash Foresight" introduces numerous real people and organisations-from nurses and educators to Amazon, Crocs, Netflix, and Zappos - who have discovered how to find real solutions and achieve the impossible. Whether it's a time crunch or financial squeeze, a shrinking market, or unsolvable situation, there is a solution; all we need to do is make it visible,' Burrus argues. With "Flash Foresight", we can.