This relentless and accelerating pace of change has made it impossible to predict the future. Five year plans are now a fool’s errand. Rigorous analysis, decades of experience, and detailed roadmaps are now a liability. The very things that enabled the most successful organizations to thrive in the 20th century are now the very things that cause organizations to fail.
Source: The Most Interesting Questions in Business — Medium
Failure has been key to Robert Rodriguez’s success. Rodriguez, a filmmaker who’s now chairman of his own cable TV network, El Rey, said some of his best ideas for movies came on the sets of films that turned out to be flops—either critically or at the box office.
Source: Fillmaker Robert Rodriguez Speaks at the 4A’s Transformation Conference | Adweek
So you’re already well versed in the Big Changes coming. The Internet of Things (yes, more of it). More smartphones. Economic recovery (the US). Economic slowdown (China). Economic uncertainty (pretty much everywhere). Aging populations. More China. You know the drill.This list is different.
Amazing short film by Film First about Gomberg Seltzer Works – the last bottler of the fizzy stuff in New York.
We’ve all been in meetings where participants are unprepared, people veer off-track, and the topics discussed are a waste of the team’s time. These problems — and others like it — stem from poor agenda design.
Source: How to Design an Agenda for an Effective Meeting – HBR
