The Future Focused Leadership Toolkit
Develop the practical tools & skills of a futurist
Six Things you need to know to be a Future-Fit Leader
Currently I am engaged in a series of workshops for chief executives from throughout the United Kingdom. These are business leaders of businesses from a variety of sectors and with annual turnovers ranging from £90m to £4m and with staff compliments from hundreds to...
Being a catalyst for other people’s success
The Problem: You are in a position of leadership, or are a member of a team, and find yourself wondering just how you can contribute to the success of those around you; how you can contribute to higher levels of performance. Of course this may not be a ‘problem...
HR Future Magazine cover feature: What to do when the robots come for your job
Graeme Codrington was recently featured on the cover of South Africa's HR Future Magazine, with an article about what to do when the robots come for your job. For more details on the research behind this article, see our framework on 8 skills for the future of...
Examples of Life-Changing Technologies (from Singularity U)
The Singularity Hub recently published a compendium of examples of life-changing technologies. Most of them are not super high-tech inventions, but rather just clever uses of existing technologies to solve some very real problems. If you want to feel better about the...
Graeme Codrington speaks: Disruption@Work for In Good Company
I recently was the opening speaker at the In Good Company conference in Pretoria, South Africa. They recorded the session, and it is available in full on YouTube: What do you think? I'd appreciate your comments and feedback.
Are you promoting your top talent to a level of incompetence?
“He is one of our top performers on the job, but no one wants to work with him. If something doesn't change we will have to let him go - unfortunately as good as he is, he has to be able to get the buy-in of his team if we're going to be successful. …can you do...
How our team approaches developing leaders for the 2020s
Here's a 25-minute detailed overview of what our team can do as part of a Leadership Development Programme. It will give you a great idea of how our team approaches developing leaders for the 2020s by helping them to 'Think Like a Futurist'. Let us know if you'd like...
The costly mistake of failing to read the future & what to do about it
History is littered with personal and corporate examples of those whose failure to read the future proved costly and in some cases fatal. One example of a costly failure was the post War owners of Arsenal Football Club, the Bracewell-Smith and Hill-Wood families,...
The 100 most important disruptive tech trends right now
Academics at Imperial College London have developed a "Periodic Table of Technology" that ranks 100 disruptive technology trends according to how soon they'll be available versus how disruptive they're likely to be. The result is a superb vision of the future. Here it...
Keith Coats – Unlearning Diaries part 2
Update 2 from Keith Coats unlearning (and then relearning) how to ride a bicycle. You can also follow these updates over at the TomorrowToday Facebook page... (You can also watch part 1 here.)
KEITH COATS – UNLEARNING DIARIES PART 1
You can also follow these updates over at the TomorrowToday Facebook page You can view part 2 here!
Building, retaining and extending talent for South Africa
I have had an unusual career, working for many years in early childhood education space in South Africa. At the age of 50 I changed direction and started looking at the current retiring generation in South Africa and what impact longevity and technology was having on...
Great ideas to try: A four day week
An article in Fast Company caught my eye recently: "The four-day work week is good for business", by Adele Peters. Simple version: A New Zealand company experimented with a four day week. It went really well. That makes sense to me on many levels. If we think that...
Appreciate and Celebrate Disability in the Workplace
In today’s workplace, it’s not uncommon to work with people of different abilities or people traditionally known as disabled. Of all the differences that people have to navigate in the workplace; disability is one that can create confusion and discomfort, as many...
Everyone needs to be a Futurist now (here’s how)
A Futurist is someone who... intentionally builds the capacity to see and understand the implications and meaning of change. This is the definition that our team at TomorrowToday prefers. And we believe that you need a lot of them in your business: futurists,...
The key elements of a culture of innovation
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, absolutely essential for survival. That’s why innovation is now listed in vision and mission...
Dragging the Future Forward
5 things Future Smart Leaders need to know We need to protect our core but go to the edge. Every (smart) business is working now on what will be their business of tomorrow. Assuming that tomorrow’s business will simply be what you are currently doing, is a big mistake...
Tuesday Tip: Moonshot thinking
Moonshot thinking drives Google’s innovation, is it driving your success too? Contact us and be at the forefront of business thinking.
To Be a Future Smart Parent, You Must Change Your Mind
It will very soon be the 2020s - in fact, the children starting school now will only enter university in the 2030s. We’re properly into the 21st century now, and the evidence that we’re “living in the future” is all around us. Technology offers the most obvious...