Celebrate women’s achievements in senior leadership roles, who are making a difference in a profession that touches the public in millions of ways every day.
Ade Onilude, founder of Women in Marketing.
Quote from article: Wednesday Woman ~ Ade Onilude at Teaseandtotes.com (an great platform with girl power in society and business)
Selling the future today is a business field full of writing gurus, but few of them talk about how to really understand the future. They do talk about their wisdom as a magical trick. The author of this book, on the other hand, is down to earth and points out the illusions of the future and shares it with the reader so that we understand what’s behind the magic of future thinking.
I do recommend this book to those who have an interest in tapping into the future of their business opportunities.
Here are some of my favorite quotes from the book:
. The future is one of our favorite destinations.
. Future is a mix of bottom-up and top-down conditions.
. Many future-thinkers fall into a trap called “future porn”.
. We should change our information diet.
. People only move when it hurts.
. Being a pioneer is painful.
. To be truly creative, we must dare to make enemies.
. The most important thing we can learn is to unlearn.
. Identity is a barrier to change.
. If we are happy, we don’t want to change things.
. Shadows lurking in the fog of the future.
When the Future Begins by Magnus Lindkvist. Publisher: LID Publishing.
Watch Magnus holding a provocative, witty and excellent TEDxTalk, without making the future a fluffy magical trick. It’s no wonder that Magnus is one of Sweden’s most successful speaker internationally.
The book www.blueoceanstrategy.com is amazingly sold 3.5 million copies, published in forty-four languages, and is a best seller across five continents.
My book Sharkonomics is not blue; instead it’s a Red Ocean Strategy. www.redoceanstrategy.com, owned by me, takes you to the landing page at www.Sharkonomics.com, and it could potentially do the same business. Sharkonomics hasn’t sold 3.5 million copies yet, but it has already been translated into Japanese and will soon swim out in more languages.
Blue water to red
Half a decade ago, Blue Ocean Strategy was released and became an international bestseller. W Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne’s book offered a “short-cut strategy” idea to making competition irrelevant. Instead of going head-to-head with competition and fighting a battle over market share in the bloody red ocean, companies should find new blue oceans where there is less competition.
It was an easy idea to sell, but much harder to make work in reality. Firstly, there is almost no blue ocean left to explore (or prey to feed on). Secondly, many corporations that find themselves in “blue oceans” are in fact out of their comfort zone, in the sense that they lack the skills and knowledge to take advantage of opportunities and end up making the wrong decisions.
Back in the days when there was time to innovate and develop a position slowly, the blue ocean idea could have worked. But today, in a transparent market, that kind of strategy will turn most corporations into shark food. Kim and Mauborgne based their book on a study of 150 strategic moves in 30 industries over a period of 100 years. Sharkonomics is based on sharks which have been around for more than 420 million years and made millions of strategic moves. Blue water has become red and it’s time to change strategy. Sharks don’t care what colour the water is when they attack and feed.
In red water, moving is not an option.
An really good interview for SP Technical Research Institute of Sweden by Peter Sandberg.
PS It’s in Swedish so it will be really creative if you not speak Swedish.