What Keith’s been reading this week (17 July)
Fierce Conversations by Susan Scott Needing to prepare for a series of workshops TomorrowToday is delivering for Boeing in August, this book is proving to be helpful. One of the workshops is on executive communication and Scott's book is providing some useful and...
Better Than Free Food
In a talent scarce and innovation critical world companies inspired by the likes of Google are stretching far and wide to out-perk one another in an attempt to attract and retain the best talent. Whilst the Michelin-Star chefs and nap pods are great, creating an...
The 3 things great leaders do to drive an innovative culture
Studies reveal that fewer than 20% of leaders have a strong sense of their own and team’s purpose. Even fewer can distil their purpose into an outcome-focused, action-oriented statement. Some leaders are able to clearly articulate their organization’s mission: Think...
What Keith is reading this week
A book that our colleague Keith Coats has recently read (and recommends) is Prisoners of Geography: Ten maps that tell you everything you need to know about global politics by Tim Marshall. The title instantly attracted his attention and as one of the maps concerns...
Blind spots
In spite of what we may think, the group of people we turn to when we have need to bounce an idea off, get advice or have a conversation, is usually surprisingly small. In other words, under scrutiny, our ‘inner circle’ is often far less diverse than we believe it to...
Leading in a Changing World
Leadership Lessons for Adaptive Leaders
Video – The best explanation of the Fourth Industrial Revolution ever
Graeme Codrington explains not just the Fourth, but also the 1st, 2nd and 3rd Industrial Revolutions, and why 4IR is more important and disruptive than you can imagine. A MUST WATCH VIDEO. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=okXk4Bnz2Lc&feature=youtu.
Humans are a species of moonshooters
The Apollo Programme, the actual moonshots was wonderful, inspirational and poetic. It involved great technical challenges, genuine heroism and, it brought the world together. But think about the Polynesian islander in a dug-out canoe who said let’s go that way! No...
A leadership lesson from a shoelace
Every now and then life gives us opportunity to say, “thank goodness that wasn’t me!” - understanding that but for some quirk of fate, it could so easily have been ‘me’. What is regarded as the most epic of all shoelace tumbles happened to one Nick Flynn in 2006....
Leading in a Changing World – The Updated Edition is here!
Lessons for future focused leaders Having worked on both the first edition of Leading in a Changing World and now this updated second edition, Jude thought it would be a good idea to ask Keith (KC) and Graeme (GC) to clarify a few things as to what prompted this...
Unleashing Your Greatness
Unlock the keys to reaching your potential
Creating A Winning Culture
How to create the right environment to succeed
Can Blockchain Help My Business?
Can my business specifically benefit from blockchain technology? After my article last month on TTG, I received a few queries asking me how “Bitcoin” could help in people’s business. At first I was a little confused as to why I was receiving queries about a subject I...
Owning your contribution
A conversation with a senior executive, highlighted a frustrating situation of uncomfortable banter between three male directors and herself. "It was sexual in nature and whilst playful in tone, left her feeling awkward and frustrated. It is a frequent style of their...
Moving from Tactical Adaptability to Strategic Adaptability
Moving from Tactical Adaptability to Strategic Adaptability – and why it matters: 6 tips to consider as you make the move. Indra Nooyi, the former CEO of PepsiCo, once said that "Every morning you have got to wake up with a healthy fear that the world is changing, and...
Johannesburg Showcase, morning of 29 May 2019
The future doesn’t just happen but is rather a result of planned and unplanned actions that shape our tomorrow. In other words: we build our future today, through a series of decisions and actions that lead to specific outcomes. So, what if, instead of waiting for the...
Tuesday Tip: Creating a reading culture
The Problem: My team aren’t reading…which means we might not be learning! “My team aren’t reading and I fear that will impact on our ability and need to learn” said a CEO to me recently. It is a legitimate concern when one understands the fundamental importance of...
Tuesday Tip: Getting ROI on Leadership Programmes
The Problem: We send ‘our people’ on multiple leadership development programmes and the ‘higher’ up the organisation the more such programmes tend to focus on theoretical content and information. We then expect our people to ‘know what to do with this’ yet all...
Webinar replay – South Africa in the 2020s
Many have asked for the replay, and as much as we would love to make the webinar content free for all to access (we know what an important message it is), for those who joined us on the webinar you'll also understand that our team have put many hours of research and...
Engaging Employees
“Hi-Ho, Hi-Ho, it off to work we go” sung Grumpy. Engaging employees is rightly regarded as amongst the most important of leadership challenges. Global surveys by Korn Ferry and others show that having an engaged workforce correlates directly with profitability,...