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...
Making Profits with Purpose Gains Momentum
While many skeptics still battle the notion that not all profits are equal, great companies continue proving that Creating Shared Valuereaps significant enduring benefits. This movement is at front and center stage with many of our brilliant thought leaders and...
75m of us will mean death of NHS, benefits…and your dining room
This week Oxford University demographics professor David Coleman predicted that the UK's population would soar to 75 million by 2050, 15 million higher than it is today. UK co-founder Graeme Codrington has pulled off a 'first' for TomorrowToday by having his comments...
The need for Social Reinvention
One of our colleagues in South Africa, Mike Saunders, is a leading expert in digital media and the emerging world of social business. To explain what he means by this, he wrote an excellent blog entry which we're thrilled to syndicate here. When you drop a mentos mint...
The need for Social Reinvention
When you drop a mentos mint into a bottle of Diet Coke the rough edges of the Mentos are filled with Diet Coke and a chemical reaction takes place producing CO2 . The CO2 causes the Diet Coke to fizz more than usual and the liquid is forced through the funnel shape at...
Doing “something” – not a clever way to live your life
"Something has to be done". "We have to be seen to be doing something". These are basic human responses to crisis and fear: a deep seated desire to respond, react, control. It's instinctive, and hard to ignore. But it is almost always ill-advised. I had this thought...
Reverse Mentoring: What Leaders Can Learn From The 'Young Snots'
It did not take very long for me to realize that, in this instance, I had more learn than to teach. It was to prove an accurate assessment. As coffee was served, Mike sat opposite me having requested the meeting, about what exactly I wasn’t sure. It was one of those...
Reverse Mentoring: What Leaders Can Learn From The ‘Young Snots’
It did not take very long for me to realize that, in this instance, I had more learn than to teach. It was to prove an accurate assessment. As coffee was served, Mike sat opposite me having requested the meeting, about what exactly I wasn’t sure. It was one of those...
A Leadership Lesson from The Velveteen Rabbit
One of my all-time favourite stories is Margery Williams’ The Velveteen Rabbit, the enchanting story of how a toy rabbit becomes real. Like most good children’s stories, it holds valuable lessons for adults as well. The story helps us learn that sometimes what we go...
Talent is About to Change – Surprising thoughts on a new world of work for talent
This post was first published in the WITS Journal, June 2011. The “Great Recession” of the past few years has been more than merely an economic downturn. As this decade unfolds it will become increasingly clear that it also acted as an accelerator for a few key trends...
Talent is About to Change – Surprising thoughts on a new world of work for talent
This post was first published in the WITS Journal, June 2011. The “Great Recession” of the past few years has been more than merely an economic downturn. As this decade unfolds it will become increasingly clear that it also acted as an accelerator for a few key trends...
What difference does one man (or woman) make?
Nelson Mandela, John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, Sir Winston Churchill, Margaret Thatcher, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Mahatma Gandhi, Hitler, Stalin, Queen Elizabeth I, Alexander the Great, Plato, Sophocles, Aristotle, Shaka Zulu, Napoleon III, Robert...
Fathers then and now
The world has changed. Fatherhood has changed with it – dramatically. As a father of three, who also researches and speaks on social change, I want to highlight just a few of the changes since my grandfather became a Dad for the first time. And allow me to suggest...
Honeybees and Locusts – A business case for Sustainable Leadership
Editor's note: Pete Laburn, one of TomorrowToday's associates and contributor to this blog is a vociferous reader, and an excellent summariser. This contribution first appeared on his website on 6 October 2011. You can buy the book he refers to at Amazon.co.uk...
Customer Service is Perception
Delivering a consistently good service shouldn't be difficult after all it's not rocket science. Yet one of the most common things I hear amongst peers and colleagues is just the opposite. Just yesterday a Masters student took her research to a printers in Hillcrest...
Customer Service is Perception
Delivering a consistently good service shouldn't be difficult after all it's not rocket science. Yet one of the most common things I hear amongst peers and colleagues is just the opposite. Just yesterday a Masters student took her research to a printers in Hillcrest...
Crowdsourcing vs Agencies
Crowdsourcing is the method of outsourcing work to a large group of people rather than to individual employees or departments. When looking into the design of my company logo, I decided to run a test to see if crowdsourcing would be better than using an advertising...
Crowdsourcing vs Agencies
Crowdsourcing is the method of outsourcing work to a large group of people rather than to individual employees or departments. When looking into the design of my company logo, I decided to run a test to see if crowdsourcing would be better than using an advertising...
Michael Porter presenting on the new role of business
Creating Shared Value represents the most exciting new thinking to come out of Harvard Business School since the 1980's. Michael Porter's work in this area has the potential to reinvent capitalism. You can watch an video of him below being interviewed and explaining...
Creating Shared Value is driving innovation and growth at GE
GE has had a string on successes implementing Creating Shared Value and the following figures demonstrate GE commitment as well as the financial reward for pursuing a shared value strategy under the umbrella of Ecomagination: Over $18 billion on revenues were...