My relief
The past week I learnt a lot about myself. We learnt that the final tests on our baby came out totally clean after what have been six months of anxiety and worry. What I realised, though, is that during these six months I was actually under a lot more stress than I...
Google’s recruitment – The way of the future?
Google’s results have exceeded analysts’ expectations every quarter since their IPO on the NASDAQ exchange. In their most recent results their success was linked to the increase in brand profile,despite 50% less marketing spend than their competitors. This was in...
Google’s recruitment – The way of the future?
Google’s results have exceeded analysts’ expectations every quarter since their IPO on the NASDAQ exchange. In their most recent results their success was linked to the increase in brand profile,despite 50% less marketing spend than their competitors. This was in...
Succeeding in the future workplace
‚Sir, when looking at future trends and stuff - what should I study?‛ Being a futurist Industrial Psychologist often attracts a questions like this. It is often asked by a late teen/early twenty-something whose parents stand just that little bit too close for me...
Are you wasting your money on leadership development?
Behaviourist B.F. Skinner maintained that, ‚education is what survives when what has been learnt has been forgotten‛. Much has been written about the need to create learning organisations and more resources than fleas on a stray dog have been spent on leadership...
Leaders as hosts
Margaret Wheatley in Leadership and the New Science (but it from Amazon.com or Kalahari.net) puts it this way… "...in this day and age, when problems are increasingly complex, and there are simply no simple answers, and no longer is there simple cause and...
New from the Googleplex
Say hello to Google DS2 (Desktop v.2), and Google Talk, both in beta format for now. This newer version of Google Desktop includes a unique integrated sidebar, which acts as a portal to all your personalised information. It includes an Email portal, which reports...
The Three C’s of the Connection Economy Women
Having watched the segment on working moms (premium content, requires free login) on last Sunday's Carte Blanche, the subject of balance touched a chord, yet again. Very aptly put by one of the interviewees, we seek the "Three C's" in career, cash and children and...
Anxious life of the “Ipod” Generation
This article was in this weekend's Sunday Times about the challenges facing Gen Xers in the UK and how it is influencing their working choices. Not quite what they had planned.... http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2087-1743391,00.html A report due to be released...
EVEolution
Tom Peters highly recommends the book, "EVEolution:The Eight Truths of Marketing to Women" by Faith Popcorn & Lys Marigold (buy it at Amazon.com or Kalahari.net). In his generic presentation on Re-Imagine, Peters extracts some key learnings for anyone who takes women...
Leading and Loving Diversity
Written by Barrie Bramley and Graeme Codrington. There is no doubt that Diversity is playing itself out as a critical factor in business today. In some countries, especially those with histories of institutionalised oppression (like South Africa, or the USA) it is...
Chilled out leaders
In the northern hemisphere its August (OK, its August everywhere), and that means summer holidays. Traditionally, many countries (specifically France) seem to shut down in their entirety. Certainly, not much seems to get done (just like the southern hemisphere mid...
“RSS has become mainstream” – Forbes.com
What is RSS and why should you care? Consensus is that RSS is an acronym for Real Simple Syndication. Syndication is the key word here. Wikipedia defines RSS as "a family of XML file formats for web syndication used by (amongst other things) news websites and...
CGM: Consumer-Generated Media
CGM "encompasses the millions of consumer-generated comments, opinions and personal experiences posted in publicly available online sources on a wide range of issues, topics, products and brands" and originates from: * Blogs * Message boards and forums * Public...
Behold… the PS3
Gizmodo has just notified us that the PS3 is available on pre-order from Amazon.com. My mom never let me get a PS1 - said it would interfere with my schoolwork. My wife won't let me get a PS2 - something about "but I'll never see you!". Can't imagine why. No-one is...
China beckons…
I’m heading to China next Saturday (27 Aug) for 10 days.
Blog Business Summit 2005
There is a rumbling in the blogosphere... Blog Business Summit 2005 officially kicked off yesterday in San Francisco, attracting some of the world's finest writers, web guru's, uber-geeks and a horde of eager-to-learn companies to hear leading blogging experts share...
The Third Space
Late last week, Roger Saner (our web uber-maester) and myself were meeting at a Coffee Shop to work through some web design issues. As we sat there, a woman who was meeting with a friend came over to us and said she was doing a feature on "The Third Space" - people...
The Rules Issue
The more business blogs I read, whether they are actual business blogs or sites about corporate blogging, the more I realise that corporates who embrace blogging are faced with a difficult challenge; guidelines vs. traffic. It's rare to find both hand in hand....
Cellphone Marketing to Children Attacked
Adage.com ran a story under this title on 27 July 2005 (read it here - requires free login). The basic argument is that some action groups are demanding that Congress regulate mobile phones marketed to children. The industry is clearly targeting young children as its...