by Raymond de Villiers | Apr 25, 2016 | Archive, Change, Future Trends
In March 2015 the World Economic Forum held a meeting in Dubai with a focus on education. They released a paper that identified 16 critical skills for the 21st century. The skills were clustered into three areas with learning processes focusing on building...
by Dean van Leeuwen | Apr 20, 2016 | Archive, Change, Future Trends
A recent study shows that the dinosaurs were already in decline 50 million years before the meteor strike that finally wiped them out. “We were not expecting this result,” says Dr Manabu Sakamoto, a palaeontologist from the University of Reading, who led...
by Keith Coats | Apr 20, 2016 | Archive, Change, Leadership
There is a lot to be said for ‘gut feel’ or intuition and in select aspects of leadership practice more and more emphasis is being placed on intuition. William Duggan’s excellent book, ‘Strategic Intuition,’ being a case in point. However, in the face of big data,...
by Dean van Leeuwen | Apr 7, 2016 | Archive, Change, Diversity, Future Trends
Disruptive forces are growing in complexity, velocity and impact. One of the slower moving forces is demographics and this force is now a growing tsunami which will crash on the shores of both developed and developing economies. No region or country will be immune to...
by Keith Coats | Apr 6, 2016 | Archive, Change, Leadership, Organisational Development
When it comes to senior leadership or executive interventions an often-asked question is, ‘why do we need outside service providers?’ It is a valid question. In many instances the answer is, ‘you don’t’. However, there are situations where paying that extra fee for an...
by Graeme Codrington | Apr 5, 2016 | Archive, Change, Future Trends
I am often asked after a presentation on future trends how an individual working in a company can keep track of all the changes coming our way at the moment. This is what our team at TomorrowToday Global do for a living, and we have full-time support, so it’s...