Daniel Burrus is considered one of the world’s leading technology forecasters and innovation experts. He is the CEO of Burrus Research, a research and consulting firm that monitors global advances in technology driven trends to help clients profit from technological, social and business forces that are converging to create enormous, untapped opportunities. He is a strategic advisor to executives helping them to develop game-changing strategies based on his proven methodologies for capitalizing on technology innovations. He is the author of seven books, including The New York Times bestseller Flash Foresight, and his latest book The Anticipatory Organization.
Entrepreneurial Role Models:
- Steve Jobs
- Elon Musk
- Jeff Bezos
When business started difficulties overcame:
“I couldn’t fail slow because I couldn’t afford to fail slow so I learned how to fail fast so that I could learn faster, I think that a lot of us actually spend a long time failing and we run out of money that’s why so many business’s go out of business so I learned how to fail fast because I couldn’t afford to fail slow and what I learned is by failing fast I even learned faster”…[Listen for More]
Favourite Books:
The Little Engine That Could Book by Watty Piper
Favourite Quote:
- “Your future view will determine the future you”
- “If the top doesn’t get it, it’s not going to happen”
- “If you doing what you’ve always done in todays world, you’ll get LESS of what you’ve always had”.
“Disruptor or disrupted, you do have a choice”. - “If it is to be, it’s up to me”
Recommended Online Resources:
- Flipboard – is your personal magazine, the single place for all your interests, used by millions of people everyday Reading, collecting and sharing stories you care about has never been easier
- World Future Society – Founded in 1966, the World Future Society has spent the past five decades building future studies from the ground-up through publications, global summits, and advisory roles to world leaders in business and government. Historical members and authors have included legendary minds such as Buckminster Fuller, Gene Roddenberry, and Margaret Mead. Today, the World Future Society are an ecosystem of futurists, visionaries and builders, charging forward with the belief that a thriving future for all of us requires us to strategize, construct, criticize, and collaborate. From every corner of society, the World Future Society are exploring beyond the edges of the map and linking across boundaries so that you can be a part of charting a collective course for humanity.
Best Advice to Other Entrepreneurs:
“Take action now, because the future isn’t waiting and I would say use, let’s get real specific, I would like everyone listening to this to take one hour a week and by the way one hour is doable, in a week and put it in your calendar, so it’s an appointment with yourself and unplug from the present and plug into your future after all that’s where you’re going to spend the rest of your life and in that hour I’d like you to ask yourself out of all the things that I can see, all these certainties going forward, I would like you to tie and opportunity to each one”…[Listen for More]
More About Daniel Burrus:
For more information about Daniel’s free book offer go to www.TheAOBook.com
Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:
“The important question for all of us though is how do we respond to change in our day to day lives?” Byron Pulsifer
Other Quotes From the Chat with Daniel Burrus:
- “There’s an old saying that if you do what you’ve always done you’ll get what you’ve always got and I think that’s a really good one but I think it’s now obsolete, if you do what you’ve always done today you’ll get less of what you’ve always had”
- “If it works, it’s obsolete. In other words, instead of focusing on how quickly something is obsolete since hey if it works its obsolete what I want to focus on instead is how can I use whatever it is now to get enough advantage and enough competitive momentum and enough innovation so that rapid obsolescence is not an issue”
- “If you wait for others, it probably won’t happen”
- “Shifting from I think I can to I know I can is a key to being an entrepreneur”
- “If you’ve got a problem you think you can’t solve, just look in the mirror and you can see the real problem, the real problem isn’t things on the outside, the real problem is something on the inside and you can control that, you’re in charge of your future”
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