Leadership’s Hardest Task
I don’t know how he did it, but he did. Already running late, we were rushing to join friends for a social occasion when a distant cry echoed from the smallest room in the house. Keegan had locked himself in the toilet and was trapped like a bug in a jar. After...
ENTHUSIASM…………….
What a difference people can make in today’s competitive world! One of the activities I undertake in Central London is a “customer experience store tour”. An opportunity for attendees to experience the best of retailing and benchmark performance against current...
What is Your Question? Four Things Leaders Need to Understand
The world’s fragile economy teeters once again on the edge of the abyss. For those who don’t understand the intricate economic mechanics of how we got to this place, but fully appreciate the impact of any recession from personal experience, it is a scary place. Some...
Innovation and the Future Workforce: key trends for the decade ahead
We are currently living in an era of unprecedented change. It’s not just that technology has speeded up business cycles, or connected us into a pulsing 24-7 never-stop global community. It’s not even that stakeholders require instant responses in the midst of...
The Leader’s Challenge: Curiosity rather than Certainty
Sipho’s adoption meant that the lily-white Coats herd now acquired its own resident ‘black sheep’ – a literal rather than figurative turn of phrase, naturally. Of course Sipho’s presence in the family has given us our own unique insights and laughter. And of course...
The best way I know of to connect in a connection economy.
I spent from 8 in the morning until 6 in the evening every day last week wallowing and delighting in an incredibly inspiring workshop on coaching using the Enneagram. For those of you who are not yet familiar with the Enneagram, very briefly it can be described as a...
Trust Cannot be Taught, it Can Only be Experienced
The popularity of the word "trust" is at an all time high. While I celebrate the wide spread appreciation for the significance of trust in business, it is important to recognize that trust cannot be learned through a book or an article, it can only be experienced. ...
Keeping the sense of wonder in your work
I've had a busy and long week, speaking at five different conferences, in five different cities in five different countries. Each client needed me to customise my content, and so it's been a blur of planes, airports, taxis, hotels, creating presentations, meeting...
Keeping the sense of wonder in your work
I've had a busy and long week, speaking at five different conferences, in five different cities in five different countries. Each client needed me to customise my content, and so it's been a blur of planes, airports, taxis, hotels, creating presentations, meeting...
How Beer Can Offer Insights into Gender Difference
Saffron Baggallay is head of our South African TomorrowToday Training company. She has great insights into the new world of work, and has written this very interesting piece on women and the beer market. It reminded me of how important it is to have a feminine...
How Beer Can Offer Insights into Gender Difference
I read a few months ago I came across a YouTube advert from Carlsberg Copenhagen which portrays their latest beer offering to the market - especially the female market, a beer called 'Copenhagen'. With the number of women who drink beer on the rise (in fact roughly...
Great questions about your self education and development
Thanks to Brainpickings for this find. In an excellent and inventive book, "344 Questions: The Creative Person’s Do-It-Yourself Guide to Insight, Survival, and Artistic Fulfillment" designer Stefan G. Bucher presents a compendium of flowcharts and lists to help you...
Great questions about your self education and development
Thanks to Brainpickings for this find. In an excellent and inventive book, "344 Questions: The Creative Person’s Do-It-Yourself Guide to Insight, Survival, and Artistic Fulfillment" designer Stefan G. Bucher presents a compendium of flowcharts and lists to help you...
Linkedin in South Africa has grown by 83%
Over the past few months I havebeen looking extensively at the topic of Social Reinvention. This is the process of reinventing our business to incorporate social media and social technology. I have come to believe that this is imperative for business to adopt in order...
The “C” in the new business SCRIPT stands for Collaboration
This article is third in a series of seven articles that TomorrowToday International Partner Dean van Leeuwen is writing for Motivated Magazine and; is based on our latest presentation and framework SCRIPTing your Future. For more information on booking one of our...
TomorrowToday has an Infographic
I'm not sure there can be anyone left on the planet who hasn't been exposed to an infographic? Wikipedia describes them as: Information graphics or infographics are graphic visual representations of information, data or knowledge. These graphics present complex...
Noam Chomsky reflects on 9/11, a decade later and America’s Imperial Mentality
Noam Chomsky is one of my favourite thinkers and commentators on geopolitical issues. As we remember the events of 9/11 2001 a decade on, he has turned his formidable focus onto how 9/11 changed the world and America's position in it. As can be expected, it's...
15 easy steps to euthanizing a great company
I came across an article in the Wall Street Journal in which Dow Jones columnist Al Lewis asks the question "Let's say you were given a year to kill Hewlett-Packard. How would you do it? Using the events, over the past year , at this PC giant he provides a step by...
How the World Has Changed…
I am sitting in Hackney, London, writing this Blog, two days before it shall be published. Why, because on Friday when you read this I shall be on an airplane flying somewhere between Dublin, Amsterdam or Johannesburg (yup that's my route). I am working from my...
Global Leadership Principles from which to Lead: learning from the Asia Pacific Leadership Program
For the past 10 years I have had the privilege to be part of the teaching facility of the Asia Pacific Leadership Program (APLP) based at the East West Center in Hawaii. And yes, Hawaii is not too shabby a place to work! Given the destination, trying to summons some...