Optimize your Social Influence

Radio and Television ..... have succeded in lifting the manufacture of banality out of the sphere of handicraft and placed it in that of a major industry.................Nathalie Sarraute 1902-99

The best leaders are experts. Influence is less about selling and more about leading, which requires high levels of confidence, which in turn requires knowledge and experience. This concept can be expressed mathematically as
Knowledge + Experience = Confidence to Lead. You can control the first part of the equation; the second comes with time.

Form an opinion; Expertise leads to confidence, while helping others leads to trust which leads to sales.

Let's analyze data from the Pew Research Center:

Facebook
71% of adult internet users/58% of entire adult population. Usage among seniors continues to increase. Some 56% of internet users ages 65 and older now use Facebook.
Women are also particularly likely to use Facebook compared with men, a trend that continues from prior years.

Twitter
23% of adult internet users/19% of entire adult population. 
Twitter is particularly popular among those under 50 and the college-educated: men, those ages 65 and older, those who live in households with above average annual household income, college graduates, and urbanites.

Instagram
26% of adult internet users/21% of entire adult population. 
Almost every demographic group saw a significant increase in the proportion of users.
Most notably, 53% of young adults ages 18-29 now use the service. Besides young adults,
women are particularly likely to be on Instagram and those who live in urban or suburban environments.

Pinterest
28% of adult internet users/22% of entire adult population
Women continue to dominate the site: fully 42% of online women are Pinterest users, compared with just 13% of men.While Pinterest remains popular among younger users, other demographic groups include those living in the lowest- and highest-income households, those withat least some college experience, and suburban and rural residents.

LinkedIn
28% of adult internet users/23% of entire adult population
The site continues to be particularly popular among college graduates, those in higher-income households and the employed. College graduates continue to dominate
use of the site. It is the only platform where those ages 30-64 are more likely to be users than those ages 18-29.

People who are social support providers “altruists” are more likely to be successful influencers.

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The Future of HealthCare

The time will come when medicine will organize itself into an undercover dictatorship.
------Benjamin Rush

"You feel like an object on a conveyor belt. You don’t feel human. Medical science has decided, that’s the way it is."----------A Patients Narrative

Healthcare is currently being transformed where Automation replaces physical labor and
Artificial Intelligence supplant human intellect. AI algorithms and machine learning are revolutionizing disease detection and treatment. In breast cancer, AI enables faster and more accurate mammogram reviews, reducing the need for biopsies.

For instance, a doctor can’t remember the last 200 research articles on a specific heart disease, but a computer can.

Patient's/Doctors contact will soon be minimal or nonexistence, consider the following technological breakthrough:

• Telemedicine and remote patient monitoring technologies allow patients to receive medical care remotely, reducing the need for in-person visits and improving access to healthcare, especially in rural or underserved areas.
•  Wearable biosensors (blood pressure cuff or pulse oximeter) gather key vitals from a
   patient and then wirelessly communicate that information to the patient or a third-party monitor.
•  BioProcessors, will not only gather information, but could also diagnose illnesses and even forecast our health. They’ll give us instantaneous analysis of various parameters.
• The Internet of Medical Things refers to the network of interconnected medical devices, sensors, and wearables that collect and transmit health data for monitoring, diagnosis, and treatment purposes. IoMT technologies enable real-time monitoring of patients, remote diagnostics, and proactive healthcare management.
• Hospitals now have facilities for point-of-care 3D manufacturing, applications include personalized implants, prosthetics, and surgical models.
• Robot (STAR) surgical technology, which doesn’t depend on a doctor’s manual capability. STAR was developed to apply stitches with the same level of skill as top surgeons, all through the use of a 3D imaging system and precise touch sensors—all on its own.
• Nanorobots that invade the cells of cancerous tumors via the bloodstream, delivering medication directly to target sites. The nanorobots travel from the injection site of a patient through flagellated, self-propelling bacteria, which contain cancer-fighting drugs. The nanorobots detect hypoxic areas—spots in the tumors that lack oxygen—and deliver powerful medication in precise locations to keep the surrounding healthy tissues and organs intact.
•  Biometric devices will make internal monitoring systems transparent, allowing us to use the information these systems are gathering for more successful preventative daily care and better react to medical emergencies.
• Blockchain technology has the potential to revolutionize healthcare by providing secure and transparent storage and sharing of medical records, ensuring patient privacy, interoperability, and data integrity. Blockchain-based solutions can streamline administrative processes, reduce healthcare fraud, and improve the security of electronic health records (EHRs).

Precision medicine, also known as personalized medicine, involves tailoring medical treatment and interventions to individual patients based on their genetic makeup, lifestyle, and environmental factors. Advances in genomics, proteomics, and bioinformatics enable clinicians to develop targeted therapies and interventions that are more effective and have fewer side effects.

Eventually:
Biosynthetically grown organ replacement, skin would be grown, or 3D printed if a graft for a third-degree burn is needed. Whilst pushing the limits of evolution, we are yet to discover a way to prolong youth......

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Seasons Greetings

Enjoy your Holidays

Enlarge the place of your tent, and let them stretch out the curtains of your dwellings; do not spare;
Lenghten your cords, and strengthen your stakes. For you shall expand to the right and to the left,
and your descendants will inherit the nations, and make the desolate cities inhabited.
Isaiah 54:2-3

Develop Intrinsic motivation by engaging in an activity for its inherent satisfaction rather than for some separable consequence. In simpler terms, it's doing something because you find it personally rewarding or enjoyable, rather than for external rewards or pressures. When you're intrinsically motivated, you're driven by internal factors like personal interest, enjoyment, or a sense of accomplishment.

For example, someone who enjoys painting might feel intrinsically motivated to spend hours creating art simply because they love the process and find it fulfilling, regardless of whether they receive external recognition or rewards for their work.

Tips for Business Success:

Plan Ahead: Start preparing for the holiday season well in advance. Create a detailed 

plan that covers inventory, marketing, staffing, and promotions.

Leverage Online Presence: Optimize your online store and use social media and email 

marketing to reach potential customers.

Customer Engagement: Offer excellent customer service, and consider loyalty programs 

or personalized offers to retain customers beyond the holiday season.

Adapt to Trends: Stay updated on consumer trends and preferences, as these can change 

from year to year.

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The Genius from Talent

Genius does what it must and Talent does what it can.................Owen Meredith (1868)

Thomas Alva Edison(1847-1931) was born in Milan, Ohio, he lost much of his hearing as a boy and had little formal training. He worked as a railroad newsboy on the Grand Trunk Railway and soon printed and published his own newspaper on the train, the Grand Trunk Herald

During the civil war he worked as a telegraph operator in various cities and invented an electric vote recording machine.

In 1871 he invented the paper ticker tape automatic repeater for stock exchange prices, which he then sold in order to establish an industrial research laboatory at Newark, New Jersey.

In 1876 he moved the laboratory to Menio Park, New Jersey, where he was named Genius of Menio Park

He took out more than 1000 patents in all;
-The gramophone (1877),
-The incandescent light bulb (1879) 
-A system for generating and distributing electricity and designed the first power plant (1881-82)
-The electric valve (1883) 
-The kinetoscope (1891).
-The first talking motion pictures (1912)
-A megaphone
-A storage battery,
-Discovered thermionic emission, formerly called the "Edison Effect"

Tireless at experimentation but always practical and commercial in his goals, he was the most prolific inventor the world has ever seen.

We also must progress from Talent to Genius

Here is the Tech Trend fo 2019:

1 Digital Twin
2 Artificial Intelligence
3 Block Chain
4 Autonomous
5 Digital Ethics and Privacy

Digital twin is a digital replica of the assets, processes, and systems of an organization, it will turn the
70% failure rate of transformation into a 70% success rate.

Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration............Thomas Edison (1903)

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Seasons in Life

Tweak 1% for 100% Improvement

Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but on error also...... Carl Gustav Jung

The most effective form of self-care in radically traditional leadership is caring for others.

Isolation can have an effect on the human mind; a loss of proportion, an obsession with detail and an inability to see the larger picture.”
Leadership can be similarly isolating and no one in a leader’s orbit is neutral:

Electorates need food, shelter, security and infrastructure
Direct reports have their own teams to worry about.
Employees depend on their jobs,
Investors demand key milestones,
Customers need solutions.
Board members are shareholders first and mentors second.
Friends and family struggle to understand the burden of the job.

Leaders need a 1% tweak in self-awareness and clarity to remain a source of inspiration, guidance, and vision for their teams.
Businesses need a stable core with a disruptive edge and a 1% tweak in strategy to stay ahead.

A Few Tweaks:

1- Most companies expand into foreign markets with local business partners why not also engage digital influencers
   Digital influence is an extension of the age-old practice of word of mouth via virtual platforms
   to reach mass audiences in localities around the world. It’s time for marketing departments to recognize the potential of these
   new local voices and engage them to accelerate global expansion
2- Most businesses focus on owning resources and growing, why not to shape society and share expertise
3- Most companies strive to own talent and reduce staff turnover, why not employ part-time staff (critical experts) deliberately,
   to stay fresh with continuous flow of new ideas.
4- Most organisations try to be efficient, by putting similar units together, why not disrupt and generate creative accidents, working on different projects,
   to create movement and bumps. So employees from different disciplines continually question each other, share problems, ideas, and opportunities
5- Most organisations change their leaders every five years, why not keep them in place for more than 10. Not just at the top of the organization, but
   two or three levels further down, where key knowledge and influence resides.
6- Most businesses patent their discoveries why not also find great things to do and share them with the world particularly with kids through
   books, articles and films. NASA engineers publish their work online

Most businesses are looking for large breakthroughs, why not make tiny tweaks, as they are easier to achieve and more difficult to imitate.

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Mood

The Trade of Globalization

A Conservative Government is an organized hypocrisy...... Bagehot quoting Benjamine Disraeli 1845

Globalization is not a modern development but technological advances have greatly enabled it by making goods and capital transactions quicker.

An ancient series of trade routes, designated the “Silk Road” by a 19c historian ran from the Mediterranean to Xian in central China and was used by Alexandria the Great to conquer Persia.Silk, spices, perfumes, amber, coral, gold, ivory, glass were traded along these routes. Apart from commodities, knowledge, art, science, disease and religious cultures also travelled along the Silk Road 

In earliest times, at the rise of globalization; consumption left the asset whether a gold field or a cinnamon tree in the hands of the producer. Modern globalization of production can mean that the asset is owned and controlled by a foreign concern.

Economic Aspects:

Globalization involves the exchange of goods, services, data, technology, and capital. Removal of cross-border trade barriers has facilitated the formation of global markets. Advances in transportation (steam locomotives, ships, jets) and communication (telegraph, Internet, smartphones) have driven interdependence.

Cultural and Social Dimensions:

Beyond economics, globalization impacts culture, beliefs, and ideas. The exchange of cultural practices, art, music, and cuisine transcends borders. Disputes, diplomacy, and international relations are integral to the history of globalization.

Global corporations increasingly tend to influence national governments to set up tariff-free zones, such as NAFTA, EU, ECOWAS to homogenize consumer preference. To its critics, globalization has no philosophical basis and is merely a new form of cultural and economic colonialism.

While independent theories speculate that globalization can close the gap between the first and third worlds, my personal observation is less conclusive.
     
The palace is not safe when the cottage is not happy...........Robert Blake Disraeli 1966

Do some trading and.....

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Lilies in the swamp

A Step Ahead

It’s more fun to arrive at a conclusion than to justify it........ Malcolm S. Forbes

Our world has been transformed by digital technology. It would be hard to explain how an IBM mainframe in 1960 will someday replace friends, books, and newspapers, but now our daily habits.

We need to start preparing for a new era of innovation
AI (artificial intelligence) is great for marketing more intelligently and efficiently but AI is simply a requirement for making sense of the vast arrays of data — structured and unstructured

Every member of your team should be able to answer:
How artificial intelligence work?
What it is good at?
What it should never do?

AI will soon move from being a “nice-to-have” capability to a “must-have.”

If you Ask:
Why should a non–data scientists learn data science?
That’s like asking why non-accountants should be expected to stay within budget.

But more precisely

We are at the close of the Digital Era:
1- the technology itself that allows more transistors onto a silicon wafer, known as Moore’s Law is ending.
What enabled us to make our technology exponentially more powerful year after year is no longer easy to achieve.To maximize performance, we now need to optimize existing technology for a specific task

2- the technical skill required to create digital technology has dramatically decreased, by no-code platforms.
The ability to work with digital technology is increasingly becoming a midlevel skill.

3- digital applications are becoming fairly mature. A new device like laptop or phone today, does the same things as the one you bought five years ago.

Essentially, the challenge ahead is to learn how to use bits to drive atoms.

Consider robotics and the effort to develop advanced battery chemistries to drive the clean energy economy, or the discovery of materials that don’t yet exist with the simulations on genomes.

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Art: Intertwine