Seeing the real magic: A reminder for all leaders!
It was a party. Not just any party, but a ‘fairy party’. The occasion was the fourth birthday of my godchild Jordan. It had been her call and fairy theme it was to be. Now that was fine, except for the only boyfriend invited to the auspicious occasion. Fairies and...
Top 20 Websites in South Africa 2012
Over the last few years I have been tracking the Top 20 most popular websites in South Africa. Comparing 2010 and 2011 results revealed that social media was definitely growing as a high priority for South Africans. In this analysis there are some interesting and valuable pieces of information we can observe. LinkedIn beats Twitter […]
Top 20 Websites in South Africa 2012 originally posted on Mike Saunders – Keynote Speaker and Social Media Coach
Show me the science: the weird world of climate change
We live in a world where even straight forward facts are disputed, distorted and used in fantastical ways by those with political agendas. The 24 hour news cycle seems capable of turning sound bites into facts, and then running with stories that don't actually match...
The Future World of Education
Education is perhaps not central to TomorrowToday’s focus on the future world of work - but tomorrow’s businesses are surely reliant on today’s students! An article by Larry Summers in the New York Times caught my eye recently. Summers served as US Secretary of the...
New approaches to journalism in a digital, connected, social media world
There are many industries battling to come to terms with the new digital, connected, social media world we live in. Books, music, retail stores and agents of all kind spring to mind. And so do journalists. It's not just that magazines and newspapers are under threat...
What does the Future look like for your industry?
TomorrowToday Innovations and Futures Laboratory has recently worked with the UK Hydrographic Office, on an exciting project researching “The Future of Shipping”. Using the TomorrowToday TIDES framework we pulled together the latest thinking and predictions in...
The Critical Core of Leadership
Adolescence is a tricky period. It has been described as that period in a young person’s life when they refuse to believe that some day they will be as dumb as their parents. As Mark Twain so eloquently put it: When I was 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly...
How social media is changing the role of journalism
In their latest book Blur: How to Know What’s True in the Age of Information Overload by Bill Kovach and Tom Rosenstiel, these two men explore the new role of journalism that has been created due to the way that people aggregate news today. Social media has opened up a world where peers and colleagues decide what […]
How social media is changing the role of journalism originally posted on Mike Saunders – Keynote Speaker and Social Media Coach
Women take the fast track – and we’re part of the process
The FT yesterday ran a piece about a programme for the development of women leaders at Novartis. The programme was headed by Duke Corporate Education MD, Liz Mellon. The reason this article caught my eye, is that our workshops and programmes team from TomorrowToday...
Reimagining Capitalism – as Principled, Patient, and Truly Social
Polly LaBarre has written an excellent and thought-provoking piece on the Harvard Business Review blog (thanks to Pete Laburn for alerting me to this). It is becoming increasingly clear that unfettered, free market capitalism is a discredited system. Communism was...
Reimagining Capitalism – as Principled, Patient, and Truly Social
Polly LaBarre has written an excellent and thought-provoking piece on the Harvard Business Review blog (thanks to Pete Laburn for alerting me to this). It is becoming increasingly clear that unfettered, free market capitalism is a discredited system. Communism was...
One billion Chinese mobile phones
Today, 3 March 2012, marks the moment that the one billionth Chinese mobile phone contract is taken out. India are not far behind, with just about 900 million contracts. Together, these two countries account for one quarter of all mobile phone contracts. The USA comes...
How well do you really know your Gen Y employees?
As Gen Y employees continue to enter the workplace with their own approach and new expectations of what the world of work should be like, research continues to provide valuable insights for employers. Two recent reports were particularly interesting. In the first,...
Three reasons to get into Google+
Google+ is taking the world by storm and just may become the social network with enough clout to give Facebook a run for its money. After joining Google+ a few month ago (you can see my profile here) I have had various conversations with social media peers and everyone seems to have differing views on […]
Why your marketing team needs smaller databases
Marketers are always needing to prove the value of the work they do which is a tough challenge because value can be measured in many ways in the marketing world. The increase of brand awareness impacts the number of people who see the brand name, which increases...
The Revolution Starts Where? A presentation for the meetings industry
A few weeks ago, Graeme Codrington ran a workshop at EMEC2012, the conference for Meetings Professionals International (MPI) in Budapest. He was asked to speak on technologies that are going to shape the meetings industry in the next few years. He took an interesting...
The Revolution Starts Where? A presentation for the meetings industry
A few weeks ago, Graeme Codrington ran a workshop at EMEC2012, the conference for Meetings Professionals International (MPI) in Budapest. He was asked to speak on technologies that are going to shape the meetings industry in the next few years. He took an interesting...
I Love Travel: Wisdom from the Journey
I love travel. It is early Sunday morning (or at least I think it is) and I am sitting in the Emirates business lounge awaiting my connecting flight to Gaungzhou, China. It is a whistle-stop trip – just four nights away and two of those will be spent at 35 000’. This...
Heading in the right direction, fast: Some excellent South African wage data
The outstanding team at "South Africa: The Good News" recently highlighted some really encouraging wage data from the latest Adcorp Employment Index (released on 13 February 2012). Three important personal income trends have emerged in South Africa: After-inflation...
Insider Trading is legal for US Senators: unbelievable corruption at the heart of US government
At the heart of capitalism is a set of rules that govern how economies work - they make the whole system function. One of the pillars of capitalism is the understanding of an efficient market, which requires that everyone in the system has access to the same...