by Keith Coats | Aug 27, 2013 | Archive, Future Trends, Leadership, Organisational Development
Benjamin Disraeli once said, “There are three types of lies – lies, damn lies, and statistics”. Of course we know that statistics can be used to support multiple sides of an argument and as Mark Twain once observed, “Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are...
by Keith Coats | Aug 20, 2013 | Archive, Future Trends, Leadership, Organisational Development
By 2014, the percentage of companies that generate at least 30% of global revenue from emerging markets will increase by 82%. The key to that statement is, ‘from emerging markets’. The global economic epicentre is shifting and the future looks nothing like the...
by Keith Coats | Aug 19, 2013 | Leadership, Organisational Development
Stefan Kraemer is a happy and proud athlete. His throw of 24.21m was enough to see him win the gold in the World Cup in Bottrop, Germany. Right now you are desperately trawling your memory bank trying to locate ‘Stefan Kraemer’ aren’t you? Not wishing to be found...
by Graeme Codrington | Aug 9, 2013 | Archive, Future Trends, Leadership, Organisational Development
A brief overview of our team’s view of Institutional Change, one part of our TIDES model of the five disruptive forces shaping our world right now: This video of Graeme Codrington was recorded by our good friends at Your Business Channel as part of their...
by Graeme Codrington | Jul 23, 2013 | Archive, Future Trends, Organisational Development
If you had told a farmer a century ago that he would not need labourers, and would be able to harvest and manage his farm using machines he would have laughed at you. If you had told factory bosses the same thing about sixty years ago, they would have been equally...
by TomorrowToday Global | Jul 23, 2013 | Archive, Diversity, Organisational Development
Last month I wrote an article entitled ‘The Trophy Kids Have Arrived For Work’, which talked about some of the characteristics of Generation Y in the workplace. In that article I also gave some tips on how employers could manage Generation Y most effectively so as to...
