5 for Friday – 28th April 2023
This week’s combination of resources and articles offers insights and practical resources to help you equip yourself with the skill required in these disruptive times, as well as for the Future of Work. This week's insights come from Dean van Leeuwen, whose insights...
Throw Forward Thursday: Futures Club Teaser: What we can learn from the Ocean Cleanup Project
What we can learn from the Ocean Cleanup Project about innovation through ridiculous ideas, experimentation and being a force for good. Members of my Futures Club will get access to the full video, but for everyone else, here is an extended 'teaser' which I am sure...
Understand how the Fifth Industrial Revolution is shaping the organisation of the future
Today’s insights are brought to you by my colleague and global futurist, Dean van Leeuwen. What is a bionic organisation? In 1958, retired US Air Force colonel and medical doctor Jack Steele coined the word "bionic", a term blending "biology" and "electronic", which...
5 for Friday – 21st April 2023
This week’s combination of resources and articles offers insights and practical resources to help you equip yourself with the skill required in these disruptive times, as well as for the Future of Work. Looking for a powerful and free resource to help your team...
Throw Forward Thursday: The Ocean CleanUp Project
Our waterways and oceans are being polluted at unprecedented rates. But there are some glimmers of hope - one of those is The Ocean CleanUp Project, started by a young man, Boyan Slat. They've just announced that they've removed more than 200 tons of plastic from the...
Introducing Graeme Codrington’s Futures Club
Be disruption-proof starting TODAY and be prepared for whatever might happen next. Get ahead of the curve and shape your future by joining global futurist, Graeme Codrington, in a webinar this Thursday on "Thinking Like a Futurist." In today's rapidly changing world,...
5 for Friday – 14th April 2023
This week’s combination of resources and articles offers insights and practical resources to help you equip yourself with the skill required in these disruptive times, as well as for the Future of Work. This week we’ve shared insights from Buhle Dlamini, who is a...
Throw Forward Thursday: Learn to Think Like a Futurist
The mindset, skills and toolkit of a futurist are essential in every business these days. These will help you not merely to anticipate change, but to develop the strategic imagination and foresight that are necessary building blocks of adaptability, responsiveness to...
Be Who You Be: The Roadmap to Unleashing Your Greatness
Today’s insights are brought to you by my colleague and Future of People expert Buhle Dlamini. My most requested presentation and my best-selling book is "Unleashing Your Greatness". I have shared this presentation on stages around the world and no matter how...
5 for Friday – 7th April 2023
This week’s combination of resources and articles offers insights and practical resources to help you equip yourself with the skill required in these disruptive times, as well as for the Future of Work. Digging a Cave into the Future - In this week’s insights,...
Digging a Cave into the Future
Today’s insights are brought to you by my colleague and global futurist, Keith Coats. It is with an element of despair and mild (well OK…not so ‘mild’…more like boiling hot mad) frustration that I write this article. Why? Well, I have been asked to write...
5 for Friday – 31st March 2023
This week’s combination of resources and articles offers insights and practical resources to help you equip yourself with the skill required in these disruptive times, as well as for the Future of Work. Antifragility in the Workplace: A Guide for Leaders - In this...
Throw Forward Thursday: Fake Media with AI – three things for you to do
This is the application session following last week's video on how AI is being used to create fake pictures, audio and video. See Episode 94 here. This week, we look at the business opportunity of verifying the authenticity of media, and the importance of protecting...
Antifragility in the Workplace: A Guide for Leaders
Today’s insights are brought to you by my colleague and global futurist, Graeme Codrington. Antifragility is about going beyond mere resilience or robustness. The term was coined by Nassim Nicholas Taleb in his 2010 book "Antifragile: Things That Gain from...
5 for Friday – 24th March 2023
This week’s combination of resources and articles offers insights and practical resources to help you equip yourself with the skill required in these disruptive times, as well as for the Future of Work. Key Elements to Create a Culture of Innovation - In this week’s...
Throw Forward Thursday: Deep Fakes – Fake News With AI
Can you believe what you see and hear these days? Literally - can you believe it... when we know how good generative AI is at producing fake photos, audio and even video. This goes well beyond Deep Fakes (something we looked at in Episode 4) which is about mimicking...
Some of the Key Elements to Create a Culture of Innovation
Today’s insights are brought to you by my colleague and global futurist, Graeme Codrington. Almost every organisation in the world wants innovation. It’s a natural and important response to the constantly changing contexts they operate in, and for most of them,...
5 for Friday – 17th March 2023
This week’s combination of resources and articles offers insights and practical resources to help you equip yourself with the skill required in these disruptive times, as well as for the Future of Work. Managing Transitions: Life is full of transitions and change, and...
Throw Forward Thursday: Drones application (do more than just improve what you’ve always done)
Drones are developing at a remarkable pace, moving well beyond the small flying cameras we use to take great holiday videos. They are now being used in a multitude of industries, and I am sure can be used in your business somewhere. In order to be able to imagine how...
Managing Transitions
Today’s insights are brought to you by my colleague, psychologist, and consultant, Tamryn Batcheller-Adams. I hate the start of a New Year. For most of January and February, I have this weird, unsettled feeling. Something just doesn’t sit right. I am noticeably more...