by Keith Coats | Jun 29, 2012 | Archive, Future Trends
Colourful, vibrant and alive with possibility. This was the WITS University graduation ceremony that I recently attended. There were responses both formal and informal that could best be described as, ‘only in Africa’. There was joy, celebration, humour...
by Keith Coats | Jun 26, 2012 | Archive, Future Trends, Leadership
I am often asked what it is TomorrowToday does. Some find the name intriguing or my title amusing (Director of Storytelling). “So what exactly does TomorrowToday do?” I am asked. My stock answer is, “we bring the future to life”. Many leaders...
by Keith Coats | Jun 19, 2012 | Leadership
A mentor of mine recommended a book for me to read by James Kugel titled, In the Valley of the Shadow. Seven years ago, Kugel, a retired Harvard professor of Hebrew literature, was diagnosed with an aggressive, likely fatal form of cancer. Given two years to live he...
by Keith Coats | Jun 12, 2012 | Archive, Leadership
I am reading Howard Schultz’s Onwards. Schultz is the founder of Starbucks and Onwards is the story of Starbucks post 2007. I loved Starbucks right from the time I first had a ‘Starbucks experience’ and that was deepened with the reading of a couple of books on the...
by Keith Coats | Jun 9, 2012 | Archive, Change, Diversity, Leadership
Not only are expectations subject to personal nuances, they can be further understood by looking at broad generational values that underpin behaviour. Generational Theory as originally promoted by Howe and Strauss, two Yale and Harvard trained political economists,...
