Tuesday Tip: Building Self-Awareness
"The problem is not what she does it's how she does it!" (Sigh) an annoyed colleague reflected to another as she complained about their new manager, Grace. Regretfully, Grace was within earshot and stood frozen as she tried to make sense of what she just heard."This...
Live Webinar: Future-Focused Leader’s Toolkit
Discover the 6 new skills and habits that future-focused leaders need Webinar: 6-7pm UK / 7-8pm SA time, Tues, 3 October Your host: Graeme Codrington There are six key new skills and habits that future-focused leaders need to develop if they’re going to be successful...
Bill Gates says the world is getting better not worse. Should you believe him?
"I woke up this morning," writes Bill Gate "and, like most days, I read the news. It’s grim. Hurricanes in the Americas have killed dozens of people and displaced far more. Mexico is recovering from its most powerful earthquake in a century. North Korea is...
Words of wisdom from Peter Drucker
Peter Drucker's, the founder of modern management, greatest impact came from his writing. His more than 30 books, have sold tens of millions of copies in more than 30 languages, came on top of thousands of articles, including a monthly column in The Wall Street...
Organisational Culture: The secret that is hidden in plain sight
The capacity to lead depends on trust. As a leader keeping trust alive is your primary responsibility for without it, you cannot lead. Trust is the air in a healthy organisational culture; it is the very currency of leadership. This is the secret that is hidden in...
Innovation requires giving people time and space, not using them up at 110%
Earlier this year, British Airways had a major collapse of their IT systems, causing a day of chaos across its entire global network as flights had to be cancelled. The problem, it appears, was a lack of what IT specialists call "redundancies". In other words, you...
Innovation requires giving people time and space, not using them up at 110%
Earlier this year, British Airways had a major collapse of their IT systems, causing a day of chaos across its entire global network as flights had to be cancelled. The problem, it appears, was a lack of what IT specialists call "redundancies". In other words, you...
Tuesday Tip – What tonsils have got to do with your success in the Future of Work
The backstory to this Tuesday Tip is that I’ve just spent too much of my time trying to get the pre-authorisation done for my son’s surgery this Friday. (It’s a minor surgery - the standard ‘tonsils removal’ so nothing too stressful but still something that I’d rather...
Tuesday Tip – What tonsils have got to do with your success in the Future of Work
The backstory to this Tuesday Tip is that I’ve just spent too much of my time trying to get the pre-authorisation done for my son’s surgery this Friday. (It’s a minor surgery - the standard ‘tonsils removal’ so nothing too stressful but still something that I’d rather...
SkillPill makes my week with this epic Game of Thrones analogy
SkillPill is a microlearning platform that delivers content, resources and learning to you in easy to digest form - it's similar to our own Future of Work Academy. Today, they sent out the most amazing email newsletter. If you are a fan of Game of Thrones, then this...
SkillPill makes my week with this epic Game of Thrones analogy
SkillPill is a microlearning platform that delivers content, resources and learning to you in easy to digest form - it's similar to our own Future of Work Academy. Today, they sent out the most amazing email newsletter. If you are a fan of Game of Thrones, then this...
Does your killer business idea lurk amongst the stuff that sucks!?
The story of a company that grew from zero to $200 million in three years. As markets go, it would be difficult to identify an industry much more mundane and uninspiring than mattresses. It is dominated by two companies Tempur-Sealy and Serta Simmons Holdings. This...
Does your killer business idea lurk amongst the stuff that sucks!?
The story of a company that grew from zero to $200 million in three years. As markets go, it would be difficult to identify an industry much more mundane and uninspiring than mattresses. It is dominated by two companies Tempur-Sealy and Serta Simmons Holdings. This...
Tuesday Tip: Simplify – 3 ways to deal with complexity
One of the best ways to help your team – and yourself – respond to an increasingly complex world is to simplify. Our organisations are programmed to respond to complexity by adding regulations, systems and processes. Think of the ways in which banks have been...
Cry me a River: Out of the fire into the frying pan…literally!
There was a hard to ignore story that appeared in the British press this week. It involved a team of Wiltshire fire fighters who rescued 18 piglets (and two grown sows) from a burning barn, only for the grateful owner to serve them up (to the fire-fighters) as pork...
Cry me a River: Out of the fire into the frying pan…literally!
There was a hard to ignore story that appeared in the British press this week. It involved a team of Wiltshire fire fighters who rescued 18 piglets (and two grown sows) from a burning barn, only for the grateful owner to serve them up (to the fire-fighters) as pork...
Innovation for Real
The keys to building a culture of innovation in your company and career
Tuesday Tip: {Creativity} – How to develop the 10 Skills You Need to Thrive in 2020
“Creativity is the process of having original ideas that have value. It is a process; it's not random.” - Sir Ken Robinson When thinking of those who are creative, you might automatically think of artists, writers, and musicians. In truth, creatives include all those...
Tuesday Tip: {Creativity} – How to develop the 10 Skills You Need to Thrive in 2020
“Creativity is the process of having original ideas that have value. It is a process; it's not random.” - Sir Ken Robinson When thinking of those who are creative, you might automatically think of artists, writers, and musicians. In truth, creatives include all those...
Great advances in science in 2017 (so far)
Futurism's website has provided a fantastic list of the 10 most important scientific advances and discoveries of 2017 (so far). At TomorrowToday we've been saying for some time that the pace of advances in science, technology, engineering, and medicine is going to be...