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Alvin Toffler e o "choque do futuro" Alvin Toffler nasceu em 3 de outubro de 1928 e é um escritor norte-americano conhecido pelo seu estilo futurista. É doutorado em Letras, Leis e Ciências e desenvolveu grandes ideias sobre a revolução das comunicações e a revolução digital. Foi professor da Russel Sage Foundation, da Cornell University, e é muito conhecido pelas suas grandes obras famosas (Choque do Futuro e A Terceira Onda). Os seus trabalhos iniciais focavam o impacto da tecnologia e os efeitos de tanta informação, analisando posteriormente as reações das pessoas diante de tanta informação acumulada.

O escritor futurista é casado também com uma escritora futurista, chamada Heidi Toffler. Atualmente, Alvin Toffler ainda é muito conhecido pelos seus livros e realiza trabalhos de consultoria de empresas e órgãos do Governo americano, com destaque para atividades desenvolvidas para a NASA. Ideias de Alvin Toffler Obras de Alvin Toffler "Future Shock" (Choque do futuro) – 1970 "The Third Wave" (A Terceira Onda) – 1980.

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WeWork Labs: Come. Collaborate. Create. Product Development: 9 Steps for Creative Problem Solving [INFOGRAPHIC] Ronald Brown is a successful startup CEO with an extensive background in technology and consumer marketing. His new book, Anticipate. The Architecture of Small Team Innovation and Product Success is available via iTunes, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and Kobo. Creativity is the main prerequisite for innovation. However, our culture emphasizes critical thinking to the near exclusion of creative thinking (although it was the key to success in the Information Age).

Today's business is dominated by global complexity and commoditization. On the other hand, experts believe that creativity will be the driving force behind business success in the coming decades. What constitutes creative thinking? In business, the process of generating and commercializing a good idea has been honed by creative industries for more than a hundred years. Trading Lesson. Decision taking. Entrepreneurship. How Entrepreneurs Can Create Their Own Luck. Editor’s note: James Altucher is an investor, programmer, author, and entrepreneur. He is Managing Director of Formula Capital and has written 6 books on investing. His latest book is I Was Blind But Now I See. You can follow him @jaltucher. I’m in even worse trouble now. A few weeks ago I had to speak at Barry Ritholz’s conference but that turned out to be “only” a panel.

Now I’m speaking for one hour at Defrag in Boulder, Colorado next week on November 9 and I’m terrified. I could open up with the same line I used on Barry’s panel, “When I was walking over here I had an erection. Technically, the title of my talk is “Success is a Sexually Contagious Disease” but I only gave them that title because it sounded neat and it was the title of a blog post I then published. The conference itself is about entrepreneurship. So I guess right now I can see if it was luck or if I learned some lessons. 1) Luck is similar to “being at the right place at the right time”.

C) Learn how to negotiate. 10 YouTube Videos Every Entrepreneur Should Watch.