Is This Simply Behavioural Economics or is Trust the Issue, or Both?
I am fascinated by how Predictably Irrational we are! And despite my awareness of it and keen eye to detect it, there are still times I catch myself falling into illogical reasoning. When I first read about Spirit Airlines charging $5 to print passengers boarding...
The New World of Work – Utopia for Women?
Our mothers, grandmothers and great-grandmothers fought hard for us. The equalities gained by the feminist movement have resulted in a steady rise in the proportion of women working in the UK; 70% at the last count. However, all is not rosy in the world of work for...
The Talent Exodus still looms large
Last year, I wrote on our South African sister company's blog about a looming talent exodus. Nothing has happened in the preceding twelve months to change my mind. The recession is going to last longer than I thought it would (at least in Europe and the USA), but what...
What’s the difference between ‘success’ and ‘not failing’?
Economic Powerhousing (the process a nation deliberately commits itself to in order to be a global economic force to be reckoned with) is stronger than it has ever been. There are a host of nation states that braces the economic landscape with gleaming satisfaction....
What's the difference between 'success' and 'not failing'?
Economic Powerhousing (the process a nation deliberately commits itself to in order to be a global economic force to be reckoned with) is stronger than it has ever been. There are a host of nation states that braces the economic landscape with gleaming satisfaction....
Kaiser Chiefs new album takes a step up in social business
UK Indie Rock band, The Kaiser Chiefs, have taken a step up in the social business world with their latest album, The Future is Medieval. They've made twenty tracks available to their fans. You listen to the tracks and select ten of them, and order them, for your own...
Kaiser Chiefs new album takes a step up in social business
UK Indie Rock band, The Kaiser Chiefs, have taken a step up in the social business world with their latest album, The Future is Medieval. They've made twenty tracks available to their fans. You listen to the tracks and select ten of them, and order them, for your own...
Eyes Wide Shut: Visionary leadership
‘It’s your turn,’ accompanied by a rib-breaking jab to my side proved to be a firm deterrent to any further sleep and left me in no doubt that to protest would be about as successful as Custer’s last stand. Arising from the fog of coma-like slumber when all the sane...
Talent Assessment – is this really the best we can do?
Every now and then, as we do, I ask Google to fetch me some interesting stuff to look at and ponder. Last week, the topic on my mind was, Talent Assessment? Was anyone doing anything interesting with it? The short answer, in my opinion, NO! Here's my Google Search...
A recovery can’t fix everything that’s broken
In a recent Harvard Business Review blog, Umair Haque (author of The New Capitalist Manifesto: Building a Disruptively Better Business - buy it at Amazon.co.uk, Amazon.com or Kalahari.net) wrote a provocative piece. I agree with his underlying premise: the economy...
A Leadership Reminder: Life is Seasonal
Let me start at the beginning. Some time ago I arrived home to be greeted by Tamryn’s: ‘Dad, can I please have a horse?’ I remember being asked a similar question by her older brother once, though if my memory serves me correctly it was a kangaroo that he wanted. In...
Rethinking Capitalism – paring profits with purpose
Michael Porter, the Harvard Business School strategy guru says that strategies of the future will be led by companies that serve communities and understand the deep underlying needs of the communities that buy their products. Coined Creating Shared Value (CSV) by...
Seth Godin on the free-gap
In his daily blog entry today, Seth Godin provides an amazingly insightful analysis of what he calls the "free-gap". Many of us who produce intellectual capital for a living (authors, speakers, consultants, but also musicians, artists and the like) battle to find the...
Seth Godin on the free-gap
In his daily blog entry today, Seth Godin provides an amazingly insightful analysis of what he calls the "free-gap". Many of us who produce intellectual capital for a living (authors, speakers, consultants, but also musicians, artists and the like) battle to find the...
Social Media Bubble
There is a great deal of conversation around the social media bubble at the moment. If you have not heard already, the social media bubble is a topical debate about whether social media websites like Facebook, Groupon, Linkedin and Twitter a actually worth the values...
10 recommendations for a 100% renewal future
The WWF in collaboration with Ecofys has created a brilliant report presenting a provocative scenario, set in 2050, of a world run entirely on renewable energy resulting in incredible global cost savings and improved standards of living. By 2050, we could get all the...
Technology's influence on our performance in the new world of work – part 1
The illiterate if the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn and relearn Alvin Toffler I think Toffler's words are insightful and profound; and I agree with him. According to Donald Tapscott,author of Growing Up...
Technology’s influence on our performance in the new world of work – part 1
The illiterate if the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn and relearn Alvin Toffler I think Toffler's words are insightful and profound; and I agree with him. According to Donald Tapscott,author of Growing Up...
“You Can Call Me Mr. Coats Now”: Leadership & Faith
“You can call me Mr. Coats” was the empathic reply given by one Sipho Coats age five to ‘Lochie’ (abbreviation for ‘Loch Ness Monster’ i.e. Vicky’s mom). All this transpired during a telephone conversation which became embroiled in why Lochie called the Zulu on our...
Embark on quests – Five new scripts for competing in a world turned upside down
Script 5... The recent recession and financial crisis has been more than just an economic downturn, but a tipping point between the old and the new world of work. There is no going back and different times require a different script. This week a new post each day will...