by Keith Coats | Oct 27, 2015 | Archive, Change, Diversity, Leadership
A friend of mine recently attended the Global Leadership Summit and was enthusiastically sharing with me an excellent talk she had heard about giving feedback. It sounded as though the talk had been tailored to the audience and had covered a lot of ground in a mere 30...
by Graeme Codrington | Oct 22, 2015 | Archive, Change, Future Trends
If you attend a few conferences this year, you’ll see this a few times: Uber is the world’s largest taxi company, but owns no cars. AirBnb is the world’ largest hotel group, but owns no property. Alibaba is the world’s largest retailer, but...
by Graeme Codrington | Oct 21, 2015 | Archive, Change, Future Trends
It’s 21 October 2015, and this is the future. At least, it is if you’re a fan of the hugely successful Back to the Future film franchise. In Back to Future II, Marty McFly and Doc Emmett Brown leap 30 years into their future to fix a problem with...
by Keith Coats | Oct 20, 2015 | Archive, Change, Leadership, Organisational Development
According to author Richard Dobbs (No Ordinary Disruption) in 1950 a company occupied its place on the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index (S&P 500) for an average of 60 years. By 2011 that span had dropped to 18 years. More concerning is that Dobbs predicts that by...
by Dean van Leeuwen | Oct 16, 2015 | Archive, Change, Leadership, Organisational Development
“We have totally screwed up,” said Michael Horn the American boss of Volkswagen in a public apology. “We must fix the cars to prevent this from ever happening again and we have to make this right. This kind of behaviour is totally inconsistent with our qualities.”...
by Graeme Codrington | Oct 13, 2015 | Archive, Change, Future Trends
Over the past few months, I have recorded a series of short videos that give bite-sized inputs into the disruptive forces that are shaping our world right now. These videos are 45 seconds to 2 minutes in length, and are ideal conversation starters for your team...
