E16: Anticipating Disruption Before it Happens with Dan Burrus

Street Smarts With Harvey Mackay

As a business or business person you're constantly being asked to be agile, strategic, and flexible to change. But our guest today says, despite your best efforts you might still be vulnerable to major economic disruptions if you aren't anticipatory.

Dan Burrus, futurist speaker, technology trend expert and business strategist joins us today to discuss his newest book, The Anticipatory Organization: How to Turn Disruption and Change into Opportunity and Advantage

Dan is considered one of the world's leading technology forecasters and innovation experts. Over the past 30 years, he has established a worldwide reputation for accurately predicting the future of technological change and its direct impact on the business world. He is the author of seven books, including the New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller, Flash Foresight, and the highly acclaimed Techno Trends.

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On today’s podcast…

2:04 - How do you turn disruption and change into opportunity and advantage. 5:44 - Predicting the seemingly unpredictable 9:54 - The difference between soft trends and hard trends 16:36 - Dan's book is based on a larger learning system 20:21 - Pre-solving your biggest 12 month problem

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