Today in Global Small Business: Success in This World Calls for a New Breed of Data

©iStock/Vitalli Pasichnyk What's affecting me, my clients, my colleagues and other global small business owners: Success in this new world calls for a new breed of data-fuelled, human-led business, able to effortlessly reimagine growth, and endlessly re-engineer themselves to capitalize on it. We call these Future Ready [CPG] Businesses . A note from Tom Peters on his retirement and his latest, but not last I suspect, book. “Think higher, feel deeper.” Now that’s how you start a movement!  The gospel according to Gary Hamel. Quote of the week: "In order to get to the next level of whatever you're doing, you must think and act in a wildly different way than you previously have been. You cannot get to the next phase of a project without a grander mind-set, more acceleration, and extra horsepower." – Grant Cardone,  Be 2.0 – Jim Collins's Beyond Entrepreneurship 2.0. Why every organization needs an augmented reality strategy – Michael Porter and James Heppelmann