by Graeme Codrington | Dec 9, 2010 | Archive, Diversity, Leadership
The British media are giving Nick Clegg and the Liberal Democrats a hard time at the moment. Today it is specifically about the Parliamentary vote about increasing university fees which took place this afternoon. What does the media not understand about how the...
by Dean van Leeuwen | Dec 7, 2010 | Archive, Diversity
The theory of generations has proven to be extremely popular in the mainstream media and with pop psychologists who have picked up on labels like Baby Boomers, Generation X and Gen Y as convenient ‘sound bites.’ Of course, common sense tells us that we live in a...
by Graeme Codrington | Nov 15, 2010 | Archive, Diversity, Leadership
This is the original submission as published as the Keynote feature in the Journal for Convergence (ISSN 1606-6162), Vol 5 No 4. “We can’t seem to keep our bright young things”. This is the common complaint of businesses around the world these days....
by Graeme Codrington | Nov 12, 2010 | Archive, Diversity, Future Trends, Leadership
How the next few years will shape the future of the workplace in unprecedented and astounding ways. I was recently asked to contribute to a discussion about the most important forces that will shape the next decade of work. I think the following nine trends are going...
by Dean van Leeuwen | Sep 20, 2010 | Archive, Diversity, Leadership
One of the defining features and challenges of the new world of work is the lack of engagement companies receive from their knowledge workers. This is a theme that we regularly speak and research about in order to identify ways in which leaders can boost productivity....
by Dean van Leeuwen | Sep 18, 2010 | Archive, Diversity, Future Trends
I have read two articles recently, both in the Times (and thus you need to pay for them – but I attach the links at the bottom of this post anyway. The first is a piece about Generation Y Mothers (Sarah Harris, July 10). There isn’t much in the way of...