by Keith Coats | Feb 21, 2012 | Archive, Leadership
Imagine a workforce that takes initiative, accepts responsibility for their work, their learning and their company. Imagine an environment where there is energy, goodwill and a shared camaraderie. Image! Anybody who thinks that this isn’t desirable, who thinks...
by Keith Coats | Feb 20, 2012 | Leadership
Imagine a workforce that takes initiative, accepts responsibility for their work, their learning and their company. Imagine an environment where there is energy, goodwill and a shared comrade. Image! Anybody who thinks that this isn’t desirable, who thinks this...
by Keith Coats | Feb 14, 2012 | Archive, Leadership
Swimmers take your marks . . . All three of our kids can swim. Two of them, Tamryn and Sipho, rather well. In fact both have won Victrix/Victor Ludorum for their aqua efforts and Sipho has gained his provincial colours. ‘So what’s the big deal,’ you ask? Well, here’s...
by Graeme Codrington | Feb 11, 2012 | Archive, Future Trends, Leadership
Ask new questions to new people Companies often don’t realise their research is stuck in a rut. They run the same focus groups and ask the same questions of the same people year after year. Broaden your horizons and ask new questions to new groups of people...
by TomorrowToday Global | Feb 8, 2012 | Archive, Leadership
Sitting in Dubai at a senior mangers conference for one of the biggest companies in the world and something became very evident to me. The map is not the territory It’s true that you can look at all the new business strategies, future business, HR strategies,...
by Keith Coats | Feb 7, 2012 | Leadership
It started out as a pie business during a school entrepreneur’s week. The girls were required to work in teams and start some sort of business, the proceeds of which were to be shared with the school. Tamryn, Ronwyn and Jill decided that they would sell pies during...