by TomorrowToday Global | Mar 17, 2010 | Archive, Future Trends, Organisational Development
I spend a large part of my year in conversation with managers working hard to try and understand today’s younger workforce. The pain they’re feeling is palpable. The evidence of change is overwhelming. Making the necessary changes, at times, seems...
by TomorrowToday Global | Feb 1, 2010 | Archive, Organisational Development
Thinking About Thinking suggests that if board meetings looked like a state of the union, the agenda would play itself out like this: “The CEO would make his way to the board room through a processional in the company’s hallways, flanked by clapping employees,...
by Dean van Leeuwen | Jan 29, 2010 | Archive, Future Trends, Organisational Development
In this months Harvard Business Review, Roger Martin writes that “modern capitalism can be broken down into two major eras. The first, managerial capitalism, began in 1932 and was defined by the then radical notion that firms ought to have professional...
by Keith Coats | Jan 28, 2010 | Organisational Development
Guiseppe Garibaldi, the old soldier-patriot who unified Italy in the mid-nineteenth century, following his military campaign was quoted as saying, “We have made Italy, now we must make Italians” In South Africa the ‘Proudly South African’ campaign is widely known and...
by Dean van Leeuwen | Jan 23, 2010 | Archive, Clients Feedback and Media, Future Trends, Organisational Development
I’m on a quest to find companies that are extraordinary, companies that not only achieve good financial results but also contribute positively to society as a whole. I’m intrigued at how many companies have fallen down in the past few years because a number of very...
by Graeme Codrington | Jan 8, 2010 | Archive, Future Trends, Organisational Development
Tammy Erickson, Harvard Business Review contributor and author of multiple books, including Retire Retirement and Workforce Crisis, has written about the five key changes she is expecting in the workplace in 2010. What do you think? Do you agree with her? Two-job norm...