The map is not the territory
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, sales...
Pies, Profits and Paris: Leadership and Dreams
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...
What Having A Social Conscience Can Do For Your Brand
In January 2012 Wimpy decided to try a completely new type of advertising. They launched what they called their 'Braille Burgers' public relations campaign. What the campaign did was set out to write, in seseme seeds on the top of a burger bun; in braille, that...
Smart Leadership: Looking for Answers by Inviting the Questions
‘But why?’ can be two exasperating words, words that chisel away at parental resolve like water dripping on a tin roof. Of course the fact that they are used in a highly concentrated way at around the three-year benchmark makes it even more unfair and harder to...
Smart Leadership: Looking for Answers by Inviting the Questions
‘But why?’ can be two exasperating words, words that chisel away at parental resolve like water dripping on a tin roof. Of course the fact that they are used in a highly concentrated way at around the three-year benchmark makes it even more unfair and harder to...
Lars Tvede on Supertrends
What the next 50 years hold: http://youtu.be/QI8p3q2UMYQ
Nine trends defining the future world of work
Increasing global integration: Due mainly to explosive growth in many emerging markets, the world will experience massive economic growth over the next thirty or so years. It is predicted that by 2050, global real purchasing power will quadruple. As BRIC and...
Capitalism in Crisis
The FT has launched a provocative new series called Capitalism in Crisis. At TomorrowToday we've been pointing this out for the past ten years and helping leading companies find solutions. We are excited that the general mass media is at long last catching up....
The South African, the Australian and the Blonde: The flawed maxim of leadership
Children seldom misquote you. In fact, they more often than not repeat exactly what you shouldn’t have said. In response to the Sunday School (what a terrible name for any freedom loving kid! – it should have been ditched decades ago) teacher’s question of who in the...
Generation Why And All Their Potential
Every generation thinks that the one that comes after them are somehow going to ruin the planet, the business or the 'system' by causing chaos, disrupting the way things 'have always been done' and generally making everybody 'who knows what's going' life on a lot of...
Should Loyalty be Rewarded?
I wonder how many of you reading this blog have received benefits for your loyalty to a company or service? There are many loyalty programmes around today, some good and others pretty average. To me it seems such an easy platform for companies and services’ to...
Note to Leaders: You are not alone
How often have you heard those in leadership positions utter the mantra, ‘It’s lonely at the top’? They usually serve it up in a sort of self-congratulatory and somewhat condescending manner that expects no one but themselves to really understand. It is almost as if...
Note to Leaders: You are not alone
How often have you heard those in leadership positions utter the mantra, ‘It’s lonely at the top’? They usually serve it up in a sort of self-congratulatory and somewhat condescending manner that expects no one but themselves to really understand. It is almost as if...
X’s, Y’s and a T-shape of Skills
I’ve read two great articles by The Fast Company in the last week. The first, “Generation Flux” talks about so many things that fascinate and excite us at TomorrowToday – the pace of change in business (and everywhere else as well), the response of Generation X and...
Teaching Generation Why?
At the start of a new academic year in South Africa, I thought it would be a good idea to give teachers some things to think about for teaching Generation Why successfully. However, many of the observations can be applied to managers, team leaders, corporate trainers,...
The six competencies of great “new world of work” companies
After extensive research by TomorrowToday's Innovations and Futures Research Lab we are uncovering what makes companies great in the new world of work. Here is a snapshot these six competencies or behaviours that successful companies are displaying: They implement...
Graeme Codrington at IBM’s Social Business Debate
In December, I participated in a panel discussion hosted by Ogilvy and IBM in London's Canary Wharf. The purpose of the panel discussion series is to promote the concept that IBM has termed, "Social Business". This is not to be confused with social enterprises, which...
What can beer teach us about systems?
The Beer Game was invented by MIT Sloan School of Management in the 1960s and has since been used in academic and corporate fields of study alike to demonstrate on a practical level what it means to think in systems. You start out as a beer retailer who orders from...
Making the most of IM in your business
Our team in the UK have recently been involved in analysing the results of a new survey released earlier this week by Symantec. It focused on the issue of instant messaging, and discovered that although many people understand the benefits of using IM in business, not...
Making the most of IM in your business
UK firms are missing out on the business benefits of Instant Messaging (IM) because of security concerns, according to research released yesterday by Symantec Corp. This is despite the fact that 75% of office workers who use IM for work value the speed and immediacy...