Who would want a pony when you can have the whole universe?
The first time I was asked the question was when my daughter (Tamryn) was about to turn five. It was a question that then cropped up every year with regular monotony only to be met with the stock-same answer year after year. It was a question that long after the...
Bitcoin: The beginning of the Digital Bronze Age
Since the dawn of time human society has been through several stages of development and evolution. The earliest stage was the stone age. In this age we had very basic tools and implements that relied on our ability to use stones to shape other stones. What we didn’t...
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GDPR is an opportunity, not a threat
At the end of this month (May 2018), the European Union implements the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation). It requires companies and organisations to be much clearer and more transparent with people about what personal data they store and how they use that...
Business books and ideas that need to burn
The idea of burning books is horrific to us. So, I am not really advocating that. We learn not by destroying the lessons of the past, but by a process of antithesis and synthesis. We take what we once took for granted and test it, stretch it and ultimately replace it...
Tuesday Tip: Creating a Culture That Retains Diverse Talent
On his last Tuesday Tip, Buhle spoke about one of the common challenges for organisations when it comes to retaining diverse talent. He said the reason that attraction and recruitment schemes don’t lead to retention of diverse talent is two-fold: Firstly, the culture...
The D7: Digital Nations worth watching
What do Canada, Estonia, Israel, New Zealand, South Korea, Uruguay and the United Kingdom have in common? They form a group known as The D7, and argue that they're the most advanced digital nations in the world. They exclude a few strong contenders like China and...
In the media: workforce tech, predictions, leadership and slow internet connections
In recent weeks, our team has been quoted in the media and contributed to some important future of work research. You'll find these articles interesting: Technology trends for the year ahead - predictions by experts represented by Speaker Associates The biggest...
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Managing Millennials [Replay]
Understand the new generation entering your workplace: One of the most significant disruptors in almost every industry around the world is the expectations and working culture of our youngest staff members. We'll explore this generation and how they are disrupting...
The next wave of gobbledygook speak is coming to a deep learning algorithm near you
One of my pet hates is movies and TV shows that attempt to incorporate high-tech by getting the actors to spout sentences littered with technology terms. "We need to find where the terrorists are by reverse-tracing their IP addresses through VPN routers. But we can't,...
How to be more innovative
Your company objectives say that innovation is important. Your boss keeps saying that you need more of it. And yet you and your team feel a bit stuck – just doing more of the same, with decreasing results. Recently, TomorrowToday’s co-founder, Graeme Codrington,...
Watching the people who watch the future
I am often asked to recommend resources for people who are wanting to keep an eye on the horizon and track future trends. Our team calls this "switching on the radar". Here is a list of the blogs and people we recommend you follow. I'll keep this updated, and ask you...
Tuesday Tip: Managing Millennials
PROBLEM: The youngest staff members in my team don’t seem to be proactive or committed to completing tasks - how can I get through to them and explain the importance of doing what I need them to do? DIAGNOSIS: I am not a fan of the popular put-downs of the...
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“Take a leaf from Mr Codrington” – Ramaphosa
South Africa's president, Cyril Ramaphosa, quoted our colleague, Graeme Codrington, this week while answering questions in Parliament on land expropriation. Ramaphosa pointed to the words from a recent Facebook post where Graeme urges his fellow white South Africans...
The Intelligence to Adapt: A lesson from the Peter Beardsley story
Ian Herbert writing in the Daily Mail said, “The old culture is obstinately hard to remove from coaches who lack the intelligence to adapt”. The context was the stories that had surfaced concerning former professional footballer Peter Beardsley who had been accused of...
The value in thinking moonshots
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has" - Margaret Mead In a world of exponential change, we are all explorers. Those who are not, risk being trapped by the dogmas of the past....
Fortune Favors the Bold podcast interview with Graeme Codrington
I recently spent a fascinating hour chatting with an editor at Gimlet media about the future of work. They've edited this broad-ranging conversation into a sharp episode for Mastercard's "Fortune Favors the Bold" podcast. You can hear the episode here, on iTunes or...
Leading Difference Differently – Podcast
Audio recording of our Leading Difference Differently webinar, hosted by Keith Coats NB: Audio quality is quite poor! [smart_track_player url="http://oldsite.tomorrowtodayglobal.com/wp-content/uploads/AUDIO-Leading-Difference-Differently-Webinar-Recording.mp3" ]
Finding the words that shape your leadership practice -The critical importance of a leadership philosophy
“…they are just words, a Victorian poem but, they helped me to stand when all I wanted to do was lie down.” These were reportedly the words spoken by the newly elected President of South Africa Nelson Mandela to Springbok captain Francois Pienaar when talking about...