Scenario prompts are the first step to strategy development. Topics to consider are AI doing strategy, a new device allows the brain to function independently from the body, landfill mining, wide spectrum reading, collective leadership, minimum viable happiness, megatrends, pulling diamonds from the sky, agriculture, the future of machine learning and biohybrid microrobots.
Read “The Navy SEAL Art of war”
Can GenAI Do Strategy?
https://hbr.org/2023/11/can-genai-do-strategy
An AI was able to produce in just 60 minutes a strategy very similar to, and in some respects more original than, one that a team of INSEAD MBA students took a week to put together.
New device allows the brain to function independently from the body
This device functions by isolating blood flow to the brain, thereby sustaining the organ and enabling it to operate independently from the rest of the body for several hours. Brain transplants?
Why Isn’t Landfill Mining More Popular?
https://gizmodo.com/landfill-mining-metal-recovery-trash-recycling-ewaste-1850151569?
Our garbage heaps are rich in metals and other materials, but landfill mining is rare.
Wide Spectrum Reading
https://rishad.substack.com/p/wide-spectrum-reading?
“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only one.”
Can We Finally Kill The Idea Of Leaderless Organizations?
https://digitaltonto.com/2023/can-we-finally-kill-the-idea-of-leaderless-organizations/
For a while now, management gurus such as Gary Hamel have been advocating for flatter organizations, yet there is little evidence that eliminating leaders is a viable model. Read https://www.ronimmink.com/leadership-is-a-mindset/
How to Find Minimum Viable Happiness
https://www.startups.com/library/expert-advice/minimal-viable-happiness?
The danger in not defining our minimum viable happiness goals is that we wind up hoping to “find happiness” but never really defining how to get there.
Megatrends: The future is the present
https://qz.com/emails/quartz-obsession/1851038934/megatrends-the-future-is-the-present
Megatrends are valuable if they serve as a starting point for deeper thinking about the future.
Pulling diamonds from the sky
https://www.springwise.com/innovation/fashion-beauty/tech-makes-diamonds-from-the-air/?
A startup is using renewable energy to turn rainwater and captured carbon into diamonds
Can Food and Agriculture Companies Raise Their Game?
Accelerating agricultural transformation
The future of machine learning: Trends to watch in 2024
Content, real-time ML, ethics, autonomy and federated learning.
Biohybrid microrobots could remove micro- and nano-plastics from aquatic environments
https://phys.org/news/2023-11-biohybrid-microrobots-micro-nano-plastics-aquatic.html?
These robots integrate biological materials, specifically algae, with environmentally friendly materials that respond to external magnetic fields.
