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...
O2’s Futurist Forecast update 2018
Early in 2017, I was engaged by O2, one of the UK's top telecoms providers, to do some predictions for the industry. They approached me again last month to do an update for them. This follows an O2 "open door" event I spoke at, where I highlighted some key...
TomorrowTrends Podcast: Episode 13
Lose your job in the future if you don’t do these three things now
This episode of the TomorrowTrends Podcast is from a recording of a webinar Graeme Codrington presented last month, looking at the three habits that have helped him to develop the skills required to be successful in a fast-changing world of work.
To get the most out of this episode you should download the slides that went along with the original webinar. These are available as a PDF here, or on Slideshare here: https://www.slideshare.net/graemecodrington/fowa-webinar-do-these-three-things
Here’s the link we mention in the podcast to the Future of Work Academy: http://bit.ly/getfowa
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Your Culture: More Important Than Marketing
Creating a winning culture is a secret weapon that successful organisations utilize to gain a competitive advantage in the market. Creating a conducive environment for people to grow, bring the best of themselves and excel at what they do, results in greater and...
Global Challenges become Business Opportunities
FastCompany today featured a superb article by one of their NY staff writers, Ben Schiller, looking at a report entitled The Global Opportunity Report by the United Nations, DNV GL and Sustainia (Scandinavian think tanks). This is all spot on the money: I have nothing...
Leading in a Changing World
What you need to know as a leader in the new world of work
Leading Difference: Your Most Important Challenge of 2018
There is an inescapable and increasingly frenetic cacophony around the issue of diversity or ‘difference’. Issues around race, gender, age, sexuality, class and many other ‘categories’ dominate the news and media. The ‘issues’ are surfacing everywhere, from politics...
Dean van Leeuwen
Expert on the future of work, researcher and business strategist
New Cabinet positions every government will need by 2030
Dubai recently appointed a minister of AI - read about it here. Sweden became the first country in 2015 to appoint a Minister of the Future to their government - other countries, including New Zealand and South Korea, are seriously considering this too. This got me...