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title: "Do These Things to Adapt to The Era of Acceleration!"
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# Do These Things to Adapt to The Era of Acceleration!

Every industry and business will find more change in the next 5 years than in the last 100. What will *YOU *do with this reality?

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How do you achieve agility in a fast moving environment and adapt to the era of acceleration?

Think about these key ideas:

- structure for execution

- rebuild your competitive intelligence capabilities

- watch the “edges”, particular crowdfunding initiaitves in your space

- abandon tradition – get more projects on the leading edge

- be decisive – avoid aggressive indecision

- innovate with structure – form fast teams!

- enourage entrepreneurial units – spin out units rather than reining them in

- partner up in unique ways

- redefine strategic planing – flex it to short term thinking

- build a culture that supports new ideas

- challenge decisions

- rapidly ingest new technology

- “test and learn”

- spots trends quicker

- master ‘sketch-to-scale’

- risk failure faster

- align different generations on social projects