by Graeme Codrington | Jan 29, 2014 | Archive, Future Trends
As another year dawns and we turn our eyes to 2014, it’s still clear that we are living and working in an era of extreme uncertainty. A global recession continues and is combining with significant disruptive forces in technology, politics, economics, corporate...
by Graeme Codrington | Jan 15, 2014 | Archive, Future Trends, Leadership
Ian Turner, one of Duke CE’s top MD’s and leadership development programme experts gets credit for finding this interesting article and sending it on to me. There are some fascinating thoughts in Deloittes’ predictions for 2014, published in Forbes,...
by Graeme Codrington | Jan 14, 2014 | Archive
As southern hemisphere schools start up a new academic year, and teachers and pupils head back to school, the single biggest complaint I hear repeatedly when speaking to teachers has to do with parents. Over the past decade or so, Generation Xers (born in the 1970s...
by Graeme Codrington | Jan 13, 2014 | Archive
A few weeks ago the following picture was doing the rounds on Twitter and Facebook, under the heading: “modern technology makes us more unsocial”: There’s an excellent point to be made in this photo, and in the similar I found below. Older...
by Graeme Codrington | Jan 13, 2014 | Archive, Future Trends
Late last year, a Chinese property company spent a significant amount of money to buy the remaining AECI property in Modderfontein, a massive industrial area east of Sandton and Johannesburg. It’s in the area between Marlboro (a Gautrain station) and the...