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Put Your Future in Context

“Tomorrow’s organizations will only thrive if they recognize the uncertainty that faces them and actively imagine the possible threats and opportunities that will emerge under different circumstances. No one can predict the future. But every organization is responsible for defining policies, creating culture and deploying infrastructure that will make them resilient in the face of change.”

Every leader needs a trusted advisor. Every organization needs one too. A trusted advisor who will challenge assumptions, someone who will synthesize research and create decision frameworks that navigate through the messiness of the underlying challenges, someone who will speak truth to power. Leaders need a trusted advisor who will suggest processes, tactics and strategies that deliver efficiencies, drive innovation, serve customers more effectively and create strategies that enable competitive differentiation. As an analyst and executive, Daniel W. Rasmus has served as a trusted advisor to executives, Fortune 100 companies, public sector organizations and NGOs. He has helped organizations transform their work experiences and discover new market potential. He has helped them create deeper more meaningful visions and design more robust technology architectures. If you are looking for an advisor, a coach or a mentor to help enhance your strategic capabilities, Daniel can provide a range of services designed to meet the needs of individual executives, functions, teams. organizations or events.

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The Future of the Book

Posted in: Education, Future of Education, Information Technology, Knowledge Economy, Knowledge Management, Literacy, Strategic Planning, The Future of Art and Lit|May 14, 2013No Comments

During a recent workshop at the Computers in Libraries conference, the workshop members and sketched out some ideas. I have incorporated those ideas into this image. What are we missing?  What pieces will come first? What are we out of our mind about?

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Desperately Seeking A New Natural Satellite or Renew the Space Race and Find Our Adventurer’s Soul

Posted in: Scenario Planning, Serendipity Economy, Strategy, Technology|April 10, 20131 Comment

As I write this, I am sitting in Washington D.C. The airwaves and the newspapers are filled with talk of sequestration, with the debate over frugality and investment. In all of this drab procedural inflection we lose the spirit of leading that should be emanating  from this city. I’ve already documented that when the government …

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‘Right’ And ‘Wrong’ Not Necessarily Top Down

Posted in: Adaptation, Evolution, science, Strategy|April 5, 2013No Comments

If you think your moral compass uses some higher power to attract its True North, consider this story on Science Friday that explores empathy, and the sense of right and wrong among primates. Perhaps as the brain gets bigger, fairness emerges in social animals as an adaptive survival trait. From Science Friday: Searching for the …

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