1️⃣ Are your leaders building fences or sinking wells?
Keith Coats shared a story this week about a farmer in the outback who has no fences. His neighbours spend a fortune on fencing to keep their sheep from wandering. He has none, and his flock stays put. The point Keith makes is simple. Most organisations today are in a fence-building frenzy, and the harder leaders push, the more their best people drift toward the gate.
So the question for your leadership team is this. Are you building fences, or are you sinking wells? See his recent post here. Keith’s Invitational Leadership workshop is built for exactly this, helping leaders rethink how they lead, not just how they police.
2️⃣ Why Gen Z is logging off. Something strange is starting to happen, or maybe it’s something so entirely normal, so human, so predictable, but from a bygone time, that it’s beginning to make headlines.
- Some restaurants are going “phone-free.”
- Board game cafes are popping up across the country.
- People are switching from smartphones to “dumb phones.”
- The “Offline Club” has expanded to 19 cities.
- And some young people are even reading…paperback books.
This is a great article that looks at what’s driving the move away from constant digital connection and back to face-to-face life.
3️⃣ Your people are ready for AI. Is your organisation?
Microsoft has released its 2026 Work Trend Index, and our research aligns: most employees are ready to work with AI, but the organisations around them aren’t built to keep up. The research points to the same thing we keep seeing – the value doesn’t come from the tool, it comes from the culture, the managers, and the way the work is set up around it. It’s a detailed report, so give yourself some time with it.
This is the gap our 5T AI Impact Masterclass helps leaders close. If it’s something your team is working through, drop me a mail to book a discovery call with Graeme Codrington.
4️⃣ How beekeepers in Kenya rebuilt an entire ecosystem.
In Makongeni on Kenya’s coast, a group of women started keeping bees. They produced honey and created jobs for women and young people. Then they noticed bees need a healthy environment, so they began cleaning up the local mangroves. That restored the fish breeding grounds, and the fishermen started sharing their catch in return.
One small decision set off a chain of recovery across the whole ecosystem. The lesson for leaders is simple. Fix the conditions around a problem, not just the problem, and the results compound. Earthrise shares the full story of the Makongeni Beekeepers.
5️⃣ Still haven’t met Graeme’s digital twin?
You might remember Graeme’s digital twin from a while back. If you never got around to trying it, now is a good time. Our team at TomorrowToday built a ChatGPT agent trained on every book, white paper, blog, and video Graeme has produced over the last twenty years. You ask it questions about the future, foresight, leadership, and innovation, and it answers the way Graeme would. It is like having a futurist on call whenever you are wrestling with a hard question about what comes next.
Watch Graeme show you how it works or go straight to the agent and try it for free with any ChatGPT account.
And if the AI version is useful, imagine what he can do in person! I’m always happy to help get him to your next workshop or event, just hit reply to this email.
If any of this got you thinking about your team or how your leaders are showing up right now, that is the work we do at TomorrowToday. Reply to this email, and we will set up a chat.