Stuck Noses: Leaders who help others ‘get it’.
‘Daddy, my nose is stuck,’ was the somber diagnosis from three-year-old Keegan who was playing host to a heavy cold. I had never before heard it put that way but could certainly identify with the sentiment. After all, who amongst us has not experienced a ‘stuck nose’?...
Strikes in the UK: ‘You promised! We demand! Our children will pay!’
This coming Wednesday, possible millions of public sector workers will go on strike for 24 hours to protest against changes in their pension provisions. Many will join marches around the country (quite a few will probably also go Christmas shopping, but why not?)....
What You Don’t Do, Can Hurt You!
I full heartedly agree that we need more Courage in The C-Suite and I second Rosabeth’s call for leadership courage. Lack of courage is an invisible mistake and acts of courage are certainly not absent of fear. Furthermore, lack of failure is also an invisible...
Using Social Media To Market Your Brand: The Ups and Downs
The Twittersphere is a buzz with comments on the tweets put out my @DurexSA last week, which at best were lame and thoughtless and at worst were incredibly insulting to both men and women; and all this on the eve of 16 days of activism against violence towards women...
Gandhi CEO – A Summary
One of our associates, Pete Laburn, recently posted a precis of a new book entitled, Gandhi CEO (buy it at Amazon.com). You can read Pete's blog here. The book's sub title explains the general theme of the book: 14 principles to guide and inspire modern leaders...
Who is the referee? Leading without a stunt double
Saturday afternoon weddings. Why is it that weddings always seem to clash with the one sports event that you have been waiting months to attend or watch? And how come this head-on collision between the wedding and the sports event always escapes radar detection until...
The Decoding of Contact Pages
You can’t call it a contact page if it’s not – what do I mean by this? So many businesses have an amazing website, which is appealing to the eye, interactive and easy to navigate, yet their contact us page is incomplete? In the “olden days” every one used a telephone...
A Warning to Leaders: Turbulence is not the Danger
Flying into the small South African regional airport of Port Elizabeth recently I was reminded why it is I hold to the wisdom, ‘the bigger the plane the better’! As we were tossed around by the not-so-clear-air turbulence in the small twin prop plane, flying seemed so...
A Warning to Leaders: Turbulence is not the Danger
Flying into Port Elizabeth recently I was reminded why it is I hold to the wisdom, ‘the bigger the plane the better’! As we were tossed around by the not-so-clear-air turbulence in the small SAA Express plane, flying seemed so unnatural. Man was meant to walk the...
The future of retail shopping: Virtual underground metro shops?
Tesco executives in South Korea (where Tesco is called Home Plus) have an innovative approach in their endeavour to become the No 1 retail store. One in five people in South Korea are smartphone users. They are also amongst the hardest workers in the world with very...
The Future workplace: How technology, globalisation and the environment is affecting the way we work
Predicting the future is not an exact science. However, in these days of rapidly changing technology, it has become more imperative than ever for companies to look ahead and try and predict how technological advances, globalisation, environmental concerns and people’s...
Living Up To Expectations: Understanding Generational Expectations in the Workplace
Not only are expectations subject to personal nuances, they can be further understood by looking at broad generational values that underpin behaviour. Generational Theory as originally promoted by Howe and Strauss, two Yale and Harvard trained political economists,...
Innovation: Failing into the Future
If you want your company to be innovative, failure is not an option…it is essential. Innovation is built on the willingness to try new things and the understanding that failure will be an inevitable road-hump along the way. It is that simple and it is that difficult....
Leadership in the New World of Work
One of the biggest challenges Leaders face is an understanding that the wisdom and leadership practice that has brought us to this point, is unlikely to get us to where it is we need to be in the future. The point is, that in a world of change, leadership needs to...
Thoughts of a Mind-traveler
It is Thursday evening and I am tired. I have had a full-on week and it's not even finished yet. I am sitting at Durban airport waiting for my flight back to Johannesburg. My blogging day at TomorrowToday is a Friday. This means that every Friday at roughly 8am there...
How Population Distribution Will Influence Our World In To The Future
It took 250 000 years for the world’s population to reach it’s first billion. It took roughly another century to reach it’s second billion and then just 32 years to reach 3 billion. It took just 12 years to leap from 5 billion to 6 billion and now just another 12...
Living Up To Expectations: Understanding Generational Expectations in the Workplace
Not only are expectations subject to personal nuances, they can be further understood by looking at broad generational values that underpin behaviour. Generational Theory as originally promoted by Howe and Strauss, two Yale and Harvard trained political economists,...
The future evolving workforce – A study by DELL in partnership with TomorrowToday
In August I was privileged to be invited to join a panel of experts on the future of work at a Dell research workshop. It was a great day as we debated and explored what the new world of work would look like in the future and what the generational impact would be....
Rethinking the Future of Education Workshops
Over the years TomorrowToday has had the opportunity - the privilege, to be involved in educating educators. This has been both in South Africa as well as internationally. For the past three years TomorrowToday, in partnership with Varsity College and the Principals...
So what business benefit does Twitter offer its users?
Twit! A few years ago this word would have described someone slightly lower on the food chain who annoys us. Today it has evolved into a term of endearment for those people using Twitter to communicate. Yes, it’s true. These people sitting on Twitter all day long are...