Where Generation Y wants to work (and how to attract their attention)
From Fortune magazine, 3 May 2007. Read it here. Everybody wants to work for Google. After leaping into the No. 1 slot this year on Fortune's annual list of the 100 Best Companies to Work For, the company turns out to be tops with MBA students as well. For the first...
Where Generation Y wants to work (and how to attract their attention)
From Fortune magazine, 3 May 2007. Read it here. Everybody wants to work for Google. After leaping into the No. 1 slot this year on Fortune's annual list of the 100 Best Companies to Work For, the company turns out to be tops with MBA students as well. For the first...
Articles for July 2007
Edition: July 2007 Available online at: http://www.tmtd.biz/articles This month at a glance... more details below:: Beware the Rise of the Ethical Consumer (by Graeme Codrington):: The Inconvenient Truth for Leaders (by Keith Coats) :: The Soul of Your African:...
Nedbank’s Power to the People Billboard wins awards
Congrats to Nedbank. Their outdoor billboard has just won the top rated global advertising industry award in Cannes - the Lions Outdoor Grand Prix. The "Power to the People" billboard was erected on a school property in Alexander township in Sandton (Johannesburg,...
Nedbank’s Power to the People Billboard wins awards
Congrats to Nedbank. Their outdoor billboard has just won the top rated global advertising industry award in Cannes - the Lions Outdoor Grand Prix. The "Power to the People" billboard was erected on a school property in Alexander township in Sandton (Johannesburg,...
Your Child and the Future: Work gets ready for Gen Y
I found a great article at the Teaching Moments website. It is meant to help parents (I think especially home schoolers) to know what employers will be like when their kids leave school and enter the job market. You can find the original here. Your Child and the...
Consultants, Business School professors and leaders
The 2000's will be looked back on as the decade of the business school professor as corporate guide. The past few decades have successively (and sometimes concurrently) belonged to big consulting firms (like McKinsey's), big auditing companies trying to get into...
Tesco trains their staff in generational talk
Older supermarket workers, at Britain's Tesco, are being given a guide to youth slang to help them understand younger colleagues and customers, in the form of a pamphlet handed out to staff. The pamphlet is being tried out in some of Tesco's 1 500 stores with a high...
Exploring business’s social contract: An interview with Daniel Yankelovich
A founding father of public-opinion research explains why shareholder value isn't enough. I found this in my archives recently. It is dated 2007, and comes from the McKinsey Quaterly. I have no idea how I got it. It is an excellent read, and supports much of what we...
Transponders, airlines and the people who use them
I'm currently sitting on the tarmac of Durban's Airport, on a 1Time flight having already taken off, circled and landed back where we started. Technical problem with a transponder they tell us? Whatever.Nothing to do, so I thought I'd ask some questions that airlines...
Generation Y makes Fortune cover story
In one of the most recent Fortune magazine editions, the Millennial generation made the front cover under a great headline: "Manage Us, Puh-leeze". The subtitle of the article was: "Boomers, you raised them, now manage them!" It is a long article, but really worth...
IKEA Experience: We make men feel like men again
In a surplus world, filled with similar goods and services, sold in similar stores which reside in similar looking strip malls or warehouses, sold at similar prices by staff who swap companies every few years, we need to do more than just offer quality, fairly priced,...
War Games for Business
In the May 31, 2007 edition of The Economist, there was a great article on a topic one of our team, Raymond de Villiers, is doing post graduate studies on: the issue of using gaming techniques to assist business development. The full article is available here (may...
The FUTURIST forecasts for the next 25 years
Recently, members of the World Futures Society were asked to submit and vote on the top forecasts for the next 25 years. You can read the resulting summarised report here. Without any explanation or detail, here is the list in bullet format: Forecast #1: Hydrogen fuel...
Rethinking Leadership
The more I look, listen, read and learn, to more convinced I am that our approach to leadership education and development needs a major rethink. Rather than focusing on static ’snapshots’ leaders need to learn how to identify patters, articulate ideas and provide...
Rethinking Leadership
The more I look, listen, read and learn, to more convinced I am that our approach to leadership education and development needs a major rethink. Rather than focusing on static ’snapshots’ leaders need to learn how to identify patters, articulate ideas and provide...
June ezine
Edition: June 2007 Available online at: http://www.tmtd.biz/articles This month at a glance... more details below :: Crowdsourcing - Getting Your Customers and Staff to develop new innovations for you (by Dean van Leeuwen) :: Prisoners of the past (by Graeme...
Crowdsourcing – Getting Your Customers and Staff to develop new innovations for you
Crowdsourcing is a technique that progressive companies are using to translate the enthusiasm of their most highly-engaged customers into valuable marketing, branding, or product-development insight. Dean van Leeuwen, TomorrowToday's UK and European director, who has...
Prisoners of the past
The opening line of the best selling business book of all time is as succinct as it is true: "Good is the enemy of great". Jim Collins’ 2001 bestseller, "Good to Great" explains how most companies never become great because they are already good. They have become...
The New Village: Building Courageous Companies
In this article, Keith Coats, our resident leadership expert, visits one of his favourite themes: the company as a village. He explains the four key requirements for developing successful and resilient organisations: belonging, mastery, independence and generosity....