Flash Foresight: How to See the Invisible and Do the Impossible - Hardcover

Burrus, Daniel

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0061922293 ISBN 13: 9780061922299

Publisher: HarperBus, 2011

Synopsis

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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Review:

“The ability to see trends and identify future opportunities is a skill anyone can benefit from - and Burrus’s latest work is a valuable introduction to the fundamentals.” (Publishers Weekly)

“A welcome jolt of optimism.” (Kirkus Reviews)

“Flash Foresight is transformational reading. Burrus has provided a brilliant blueprint for mapping the problems and solutions both of the present and the future. He may also have given us one of the best business books to be written in a long time.” (Business Lexington)

“Full of provocative insights and powerful strategies from a veteran entrepreneur. The ‘Take Your Biggest Problem - and Skip It’ chapter alone is worth the price of admission.” (Steve Forbes, Editor-in-Chief of Forbes and CEO of Forbes Inc.)

“Superbly written and thoroughly researched, Flash Foresight equips the reader with seven valuable principles that provide uniquely effective strategies to grow personally as well as professionally.” (Stephen R. Covey, author, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People and The Leader in Me)

“I love this book! It’s as much fun to read as it is inspiring to learn from. Buy it, read it, and put it to use-in a flash!”Alan M. Webber, co-founder, Fast Company (Alan M. Webber, co-founder, Fast Company)

“With the increasing pressure to innovate and gain competitive advantages, leaders from start-ups to multi-national organizations will find deep insights from the seven principles of Flash Foresight. It will change the way you think about your current obstacles and open your mind to limitless new opportunities.” (Terry Jones, founder Travelocity.com and Chairman of Kayak.com)

“After reading Flash Foresight and applying the principles to our business, in less than a year we have been able to double our revenues and increase the value of our company by a factor of four.” (Arnie Bellini, CEO, ConnectWise)

“Fascinating! A powerful competitive weapon that cuts through the clutter, Flash Foresight shows you what you need to do to survive and thrive in the challenging times that lie ahead.” (Rear Admiral David Bill III, USN (Ret.), Executive Director of Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) Foundation Rear Admiral David Bill III, USN (Ret.), Executive Director of Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) Foundation Rear Admiral David Bill III, USN (Ret)

“Flash Foresight provides a flight plan through turbulence and a provocative window to the future that will stimulate a great amount of innovation and positive change.” (Howard Putnam, former CEO of Southwest Airlines)

From the Back Cover:

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: HarperBus
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0061922293
• ISBN 13: 9780061922299
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 304