Future of Business
The Future Of Business – Be Useful
I’m not sure when he said it, but he said it…Chris Brogan made a statement that has stuck with me since I heard him say it, and he said it. He said, and I quote, ” People comeback to things that are useful to them”. Does that resonate with you?
I think Chris even coined the term, “Grow Bigger Ears”. Listen to what people are asking for, that your product or service might solve that problem”. It’s all part of being a Human Business.
I meet with a great many people almost everyday, smart people, and they seem to overlook simple observations, like being useful. Most of us, when we have a problem, tend to complicate things by trying to figure that problem out on our own. But if you were to ASK instead of tell, you might be surprised how quickly the problem goes away. You will notice, if you’re paying attention, you almost always go back to the place or person that was useful in solving past problems. You tend to draw on past experiences and go back to resources you found useful.
Talk about being creatures of habit, a gravity of human behaviour by the way!
Are you, is your business, is what you do, useful? And to whom? Therein Lies the secret sauce, who finds you useful. How can you tell, to be sarcastic, check your bank balance, if it’s healthy, you’ve probably been useful. If you get gobs of website traffic, and a low bounce rate, your site is probably useful. People tend to want two things, a problem solved, or they want to learn something, sometimes both.
Another gravity of human behaviour, almost everyone is an authority on something, we are very, very smart : )
So be useful, and change the world, make it a better place.
If you could help make owengreaves.com more useful, what would that be, what would you recommend? How could I be more useful to you? Go ahead, I can take it, but be respectful and sincere.
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The Future Of Business – Are You A Multipotentialite?
You might remember I wrote about a young lady named Emilie Wapnick, she has been turning the business world on it’s ear lately, and I highly recommend you listen to her before you go any further:
As you just heard, younger generations want more than the older generations are offering, and more importantly, they don’t want to be catagorized and told what they can and can’t do for a living. recently Emilie released a book for those who have more than one passion, and that is probably all of us. Here book is for Multipotentialites, what does that mean, I’ll let her tell you in her own words a little later. But first, I want you to get her book, it’s called “Renaissance Business – Make Your Multipotentiality Your Day Job”.
Taken From Her Website:
Imagine having a business that allows you to focus on many of your interests and use all of your skills on a regular basis.
In Renaissance Business, you’ll learn to use your multipotentiality so that instead of it being an obstacle to income, it becomes fuel for income.
But first, maybe you can relate to this…
My resume reads like it belongs to ten different people.
The famous and very talented Michael Martine had this to say about her and the new book:
“I wasn’t sure I really believed at first that Emilie had figured out a way to help “scanners” create a single business when they have multiple interests and skills. I just didn’t see how she could pull it off. So I was very pleasantly surprised when I read Renaissance Business: the methods she walks you through step-by-step for creating a single business out of the soup of all your varied skills and interests as a scanner or multipotentialite are, in a word, brilliant. She really has cracked the code. I’ve never seen anything like it. If you’ve felt stuck and dismayed because you feel a conflict between your potential and the need to make a reductive decision, you must have this book.”
– Michael Martine | Remarkablogger.com
Renaissance Business is Designed Specifically for the Multi-Passionate Entrepreneur!
So why did I just share all this, well, I want you to buy her book, I want you to experience a Business Of The Future, for you to learn from Emilie, and I want to help her fulfill one of her passions. Sell Books.
Also, I had the opportunity to speak with her on a Skype call and I want to share it with you. The quality is sketchy but you will find what she has to say helpful and interesting. I hope you can carve out some time to listen to this 25 minute chat.
Podcast With Emilie Wapnick – Enjoy!
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The Future Of Business – The Future Of Shopping With PayPal
Look at what PayPal is introducing in the future of shopping, when systems of this nature are implemented, over time, it’s usually impossible to go back to old ways of doing things. But it is fun to use new technologies and new ways of getting things done.
Hope you find this interesting, or at least eye opening, would you use PayPal’s new system?
The Future Of Business – The Gravities Of Human Behaviour
I regularly meet individuals who struggle with what I call simple answers to what many feel are complicated questions. I’m no genius here but I do tend to pay attention to human behaviour now and again. In fact, I talk about the gravities of human behaviour in my keynotes and workshops, what are they, what do they say, and how should I react to them, to name a few:
1.) We are creatures of habit.
2.) We always gravitate to what feels good.
3.) We always gravitate to our comfort zones, what’s familiar.
4.) Almost all of us has an opinion and loves to express it.
5.) Most of us don’t like change. But we need it to survive.
If this short list is accurate, why do we struggle with trying to figure out what people want? PR people and Marketer’s frantically try to answer the question of what consumers want every minute of the day. Maybe PR and marketer’s need to get out of the way, maybe, they need to pay more attention to the gravities in human behaviour? Maybe we are trying to complicate things too much, to justify our existence, to justify our rates, to make us feel good because we are so smart, could it be?
The Future Of Business will rely on you recognizing the gravities of human behaviour, they are the simple answers to what appear to be complicated questions.
The Future Of Business – Kevin Kelly On Attention Flows
Kevin Kelly is one of many Futurists I study and follow online, I like to pay attention to people far smarter than myself, Ummmm….that includes you. This video is revealing the Future Of Business as a Media, all your streams create and become one medium, what does your media look like?
Kevin touches on many topics without getting into details, he gives you a high-level look at what’s yet to come. We think we are late most of the time here on the NET, but much of what we Futurists share has yet to be developed, let alone available for public consumption.
Enjoy the video: