Many irresistible forces will arrive without being anticipated. Your best weapon in defending your business is to have a thorough understanding of what should be happening with your stakeholders if the irresistible forces are acting as you believe they are.
When you notice that something new is going on, that can be your clue to look for an impending irresistible force. These new...
Throughout the cold war, United States forces were constantly ready to launch a nuclear attack on the Soviet Union. Fortunately, there was never a real need to do so.
However, the threat of such an attack wouldn't have been a very useful deterrent to a nuclear war if the forces weren't actually able to deliver. Using constant training and exercises to go partially into attack mode kept the...
You need to be full of game and not just guessing when it comes to meeting the major challenges that powerful trends and irresistible forces bring. Otherwise, you may be frozen into inaction as occurred with many government leaders during Hurricane Katrina as it bore done on New Orleans.
Irresistible forces have a way of overwhelming peoples' emotions. But if you practice facing extreme...
For the past several decades, the number of transistors on a semiconductor chip has doubled approximately every twenty-four months at a more or less constant cost for the chip. The observation of this trend, made by Gordon Moore, Intel's cofounder, is the basis of Moore's Law.
Those who are interested in exceeding future best practices for anticipating future events have often been...
During the Revolutionary War in which the new-world British colonies broke free to become the United States, the colonists in areas outside the main battle zones usually did not rely on a standing army of the sort that exists today.
Forces assembled in many cases just as needed, a just-in-time army, as it were.
On receiving a summons (such as seeing a light in a tower, or hearing Paul...
When I attend a career-related conference or seminar, one of the typical activities is asking each person to consider his or her life's purpose. Then attendees are encouraged to share what they've concluded. As I listen, I'm constantly struck by how often such statements include the words "Help others to succeed in . . . "
I'm always encouraged to find someone has a powerful desire to help...
Confidential sources are cooperative advantages. Under American law, reporters aren't usually protected from legal processes ordering them to reveal their sources of information.
Yet hardly a year goes by without a reporter being sent to jail for contempt of court after refusing to reveal his or her sources.
What makes reporters so protective of their sources?
Think...
I was very interested to have a chance to participate in using an airline simulator. In such a huge mock-up of a real plane's cockpit, you operate the controls.
To make life more interesting, there's an instructor who throws all kinds of problems at you such as hurricanes, the loss of some of your equipment, and freezing rain.
But it wasn't those huge problems that impressed me the most....
Old-time television viewers remember the show, Dr. Kildare. When he wasn't being kind to everyone, a voice would interrupt warning him that an emergency had arrived by saying: "Paging Dr. Kildare."
In a hospital intensive care unit, the key measures of health for a patient's particular condition are constantly monitored.
If a measure falls outside the normal range, an alarm goes off so...
If you want to have the best view of changes in irresistible forces, be like an eye in the sky.
Although traffic reports may sound the same from day-to-day, the ability to report the exact condition of traffic has reached a high level in many places such as New York City.
Some cities have cameras operating twenty-four hours a day at the usual choke points and a traffic helicopter with a...
