by Raymond de Villiers | Nov 13, 2015 | Archive, Change, Future Trends, Organisational Development
One of the macro trends in today’s world is that people are living longer. This has a number of implications in a variety of areas, including our careers. When we lived into our 70’s or 80’s we ended up working for 30 or so years. If however, as the trends...
by Dean van Leeuwen | Nov 11, 2015 | Archive, Change, Future Trends, Leadership
“If you find what you do each day seems to have no link to any higher purpose, you probably want to rethink what you’re doing.” says Ronald Heifetz, the Founding Director of the Center for Public Leadership at the Harvard Kennedy School and the leading global...
by Dean van Leeuwen | Nov 3, 2015 | Archive, Change, Future Trends
ESPN Coach of the Century Vince Lombardi said: “I firmly believe that any man’s finest hour – his greatest fulfilment to all he holds dear – is that moment when he has to work his heart out in a good cause and he’s exhausted on the field of battle – victorious.” Here,...
by Keith Coats | Nov 3, 2015 | Change, Future Trends, Leadership
Demographics are a strange thing. They single a shift from the centre and if you are not paying attention, that shift can create an imbalance from which it is hard to recover. Demographic shifts are usually perceived as slow yet unexpected events can cause the shift...
by Dean van Leeuwen | Oct 30, 2015 | Archive, Future Trends, Leadership
Organisations wishing to thrive and gain competitive advantage over the next decades should focus on delivering meaningful benefits in a world that is struggling to sustain the growing demands of the 9.6 billion people that will inhabit our blue planet by the middle...
by Dean van Leeuwen | Oct 28, 2015 | Archive, Change, Future Trends
It’s worth bearing in mind that the advances over this century in robotics and intelligent machine learning applications mean that many of the knowledge jobs once taken as being safe from automation are now under threat. If you want to future-proof yourself from...
