Roger James Hamilton's Blog, page 6
November 24, 2016
Top 10 Future Trends of 2017 – Trend #4: Learning Networks
Trend #4 hits the mainstream next year and will revolutionize the speed at which we all learn.
Learning networks are the evolution of social networks. When social networks like Facebook and LinkedIn appeared 10 years ago, they transformed our speed and volume of connections. But as the focus of social networks is conversation, they also multiplied our noise and distraction.
Over the last five years, more and more people are using social networks to learn.
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Top 10 Future Trends of 2017 – Trend #3: Less Walls More Doors
Trend #3 is about the waves that are breaking the barriers between us – and why the pace of walls falling will accelerate exponentially in 2017.
Over the last decade, social networks like Facebook, Youtube, Instagram and Linkedin, together with trading platforms like Amazon, eBay and Alibaba, have connected people and places, markets and movements globally.
Politicians in England can plan to separate from the EU, and the President-Elect of the United States can plan a wall on the Mexican bord...
November 23, 2016
Top 10 Future Trends of 2017 – Trend #2: Experience v/s Content
Trend #2 is the surprising consequence of the downward cost of content: As content moves to its nominal cost (ie. Free), people are spending more on experiences. This is a trend which will rapidly grow in 2017.
Ten years ago, musicians would make their money selling songs and albums. Today, most music is listened to for free, and musicians make more from their concerts, merchandise and fan clubs. They are happy to see their music played on Youtube or streamed for free as they are no longer re...
November 22, 2016
Top 10 Future Trends of 2017 – Trend #1: The 3 Lane Economy
These are the 10 most critical things to know about how business is changing in the year ahead.
Each trend explains what the big shift is, what it means to you, and what to do to keep your business on the cutting edge. If you find these of value, please share!
Trend #1: THE 3 LANE ECONOMY
As speed grows and time shortens, we have moved from a 1 lane to 2 lane to now 3 lane economy. Which means what people are willing to pay (and what you are able to earn) continues to shift dramatically.
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November 21, 2016
What would Alexander Hamilton do today?
Despite dying in a duel 212 years ago, Alexander Hamilton is in the news today…
Unless you’ve seen the sold-out Broadway musical, read the news articles of the cast’s message to Mike Pence (or Donald Trump’s tweets in response), you probably won’t know much about Hamilton. Even if you have been following, it’s still easy to miss the huge lesson he left us.
As a Hamilton myself, I’ve spent years tracking back my family tree to the beginning of the Scottish Hamilton Clan, and then forward to di...
November 17, 2016
How focused are you at your one big thing?
Today Elon Musk got the green light to merge two of his companies, Tesla and SolarCity – opening the way for a fully integrated solar powered solution to live a zero carbon life.
“We’re trying to make an integrated product,” Musk told Tesla shareholders today. “So you have an integrated solar roof with a Powerwall and an electric car, and you just go into a Tesla store, just say yes, it just happens. It all works, it’s seamless and you love it.”
Just five months ago, in June Elon was under se...
November 14, 2016
Are you running your life and your business by the Sun cycle or the Moon cycle?
On the night of the largest supermoon in 69 years, what better time to ask the question: Are you running your life and your business by the Sun cycle or the Moon cycle?
The Sun cycle is based on the seasons and the year – four quarter cycles and one full Earth cycle around the Sun.
The Moon cycle is based on the weeks and months – four quarter cycles and one full Moon cycle around the Earth.
Since we adopted the Gregorian Calendar as our standard, most of the Western World works mainly by the...
November 13, 2016
Make your Customer the Hero
This week Snapchat launched their Snapchat Spectacles to the public. Why have they been such a hit when Google Glass wasn’t?
Because Snapchat’s founder, Evan Spiegel, took a page out of Apple’s launch of the iPod 15 years ago:
Instead of focusing on the product, the launch focused at the customer. Why would someone want Snapchat Spectacles? Just to shoot 10 second videos? No. Because they’re fun to use and cool to wear.
Instead of launching the high-tech glasses worldwide or through retail s...
November 10, 2016
5 Things that happened on 11/9
What happened yesterday? In all the media and posts on the US Elections, you might have missed one or more of these big things: NEWS STORY #1: THE WORLD DECIDES REVERSING CLIMATE CHANGE DOESN’T DEPEND ON THE US 200 countries at the United Nation’s COP22 Conference in Morocco pledged to keep to the timeline to stop global warming regardless of what Donald Trump does. This is the annual meet of climate delegates charged with fulfilling on the promises made at the Paris Climate Agreement. Sensin...
November 8, 2016
Why Donald Trump is the New President
When you have a country in massive debt, in economic and political disarray, with loss of trust in the government, it’s only a matter of time before a dictatorial leader steps in and gains the support of the people.
That’s what happened in 1789 in France, and triggered the French Revolution.
Citizens turned against King Louis XVI in protest of the monarchy’s excesses and the debt France had racked up during the American Revolution, catching the elite totally off-guard.
Napoleon took advantage...
