Managing Talented People
I haven't read this book, but the write ups look good. Its Managing Talented People, by Alan Robertson & Graham Abbey (Pearson, 2003) (Get it at Amazon.com or Kalahari.net). Check out the great list of questions inspired by the book at:...
Volvo Concept car – for women?
I found this post ( http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/050914/lawfns2.html?.v=1) on Volvo presenting it’s first ever car designed by women. My first thought was ‘At last! Someone’s done it’, but as I read through the article I couldn’t shake a nagging thought. We...
I Have a Dream
I have a dream that in my lifetime, I would see the revolution of the services company as we currently know it. I have a dream that one day our companies will shrug off the inertia of the past, and the single-minded self-enrichment focus of the present. I have a dream...
Piracy, the Digital Divide, & Improving Our ‘Lot’
Can the current licensing structures around software, etc actually make it impossible to improve your lot in life without risking HUGE fines? The following is an extract from a post on The GripeLine by Ed Foster. "A few decades ago, a man could still 'pull himself up...
Social Network Analysis
Check out this website for the International Network for Social Network Analysis
The Future Bank Blog gets it
I think BlogMaps - where blogs meet maps - are fantastic tools (thanks to FeedMap.net for the free service). Using BlogMap you can geo-code your blog using ordinary geographical coordinates, browse already geo-coded blogs and search for blogs. It is a great way to...
A Whole New Mind: Moving from the Information Age to the Conceptual Age
Every now & then a book comes out that corroborates certain facets of the TomorrowToday.biz message. Daniel H. Pink a former White House speech writer has recently released a book that he spent several years researching. The books deals with what he calls the...
Are all airline’s full of hot air?
Within the space of 24 hours, my relationship with airlines underwent another rollercoaster ride. Loves to travel, hates to fly ... is fast becoming my new mantra. It all started when we tried to change the dates of my husband’s British Airways ticket from London to...
The Rolling Whats!?
Back at Vodaworld's website this morning in the hope of discovering that upgrading my wife's mobile phone may lead to the free acquisition of a PSP or iPod nano or something, I was horrified to discover that Vodacom's newest strategic partner is none other than Madame...
To meet, or Not to meet…..?
Every now & then an internal conversation happens in TomorrowToday that reflects some of the difficulty of moving away from the traditional business structure into a virtual & connection economy one. A recent conversation that did the rounds concerned whether we...
Extrapreneurship
An article in the Futurist magazine addresses an new way of developing / running enterprises that uses the best of the outsourcing trend, the connection economy, and connection technologies. The article 'blurb' says: "Information Technologies are toppling traditional...
Microsoft, Mini-Microsoft and the Talent Exodus
The mileage our monolithic proprietary friend has gained out of its new human persona, attributable to the 2,000 or so registered Microsoft employee blogs, not to mention the now-famous Robert Scoble (of Scobleizer), is suddenly being tainted by a self-proclaimed...
Brand Values in the Connection Economy
BizCommunity today had an interesting report under the heading, "Internal branding values ignored". "A UK marketing study by Price Waterhouse Coopers shows that less than a third of senior managers believe their companies' external values are matched by its internal...
Generation Y in Australia
I was working through some email articles, and found the following piece from AAP, June 8 2004. Teens' friends their new families By Gosia Kaszubska AND you thought the teenager texting madly on your train home was just bored.Seems those twitching thumbs are the...
Connection Economy Tools
“The ‘surplus society’ has a surplus of similar companies, employing similar people, with similar educational backgrounds, coming up with similar ideas, producing similar things, with similar prices and similar quality.” Kjell Nordström...
Auditing in crisis – and a solution?
KPMG, one of the global "Big Four" accounting giants, has acknowledged guilt in criminal tax frauds, by providing sham tax shelters to wealthy clients between 1996 and 2002. This was announced by the US Justice Department on 29 August, together with a fine imposed on...
Oh dear, here we go again
Last summer I waged a lone war against the world's best cricket all-rounder. Simply put, I contend that Jacques Kallis should not be playing one day cricket (and definitely not 20:20!!). (PS - if you don't know what cricket is, or who Jacques is, then just skip this...
SAA flight crew don’t give a damn
My friends over at Jo'blog have posted an entry showing how customer-oriented SAA are, despite their recent bad press (see Graeme's previous entry). When are SAA going to learn that consumer-generated media holds weight? When are they going to start responding? Or are...
MBA blogging community
BusinessWeek Online, who brought us Blogspotting and other fantastic business blogging resources, have added a new string to their blow. The MBA blogging community (still in beta version) allows users (MBA students, alum or recruiters) to start their own blogs under...
Just call me the Oracle
Business2Day Blog reports "Goodbye, Coins. Hello, Digicash", which, in my humble opinion, adds weight to my predictions at RIP: Newspaper. My genius aside, can you think of one good reason coins and notes should stay in circulation? (ok, besides the tooth fairy...)