Enabling Foresight and Strategy: Spotting the Disruptors Before They Arrive
Enabling Foresight and Strategy: Spotting the Disruptors Before They Arrive It has always been the task of the leader to think strategically and spend more time than their team looking at the horizon. That is still the case, although many modern...
How to develop greater adaptive capacity in your team
The leadership challenge is how to ensure that your organisation, your team has a deep adaptive capacity. It is ensuring that adaptability is part of your very DNA as you navigate the volatile, uncertain and complex future. In order to develop this vital adaptive...
Leaders who hear the music
One of my favourite quotes is that of Friedrich Nietzsche who once wrote, “Those who were seen dancing, were thought to be crazy, by those who could not hear the music.” Hearing the ‘music’ is an important leadership attribute and one that can be intentionally...
2017 Strategic Brand & Communication Prognosis
Brand & Communication Prognosis: Thank you to the many of you who have given a little bit of their valuable time to complete our short “Brand Impact 2017” survey over the festive season – Happy New Year! Cutting to the chase: what’s in it for 2017? The primary...
Recommended Reading: Best Business Books
The latest edition of The Economist has a cover article about lifelong learning being one of the most important things you can do to survive in an age of automation. A crucial part of lifelong learning is reading. I hope one of your New Year's resolutions was to read...
Why bother with what matters most? Trump and authentic leadership
In TomorrowToday we have two capstones in our approach to leadership, namely: (1) Leadership is always context specific and, (2) You lead out of who you are. Context always defines leadership and a lot of the work we are invited to do as TomorrowToday involves helping...
Tuesday Tip: Crowd control
The Problem: The situation is that you are facilitating at a conference or simply coordinating a large meeting in which multiple table discussions are taking place. The problem is trying to regain the group’s attention without speaking over the noise and / or...
Janus: A god for Leaders
Janus was the Roman god from whom we derive the name we give to the first month of the year – January. Janus was the god of beginnings and endings and was often found at the entrance of a building or home, in doorways or passages. At the outbreak of war or with the...
Articles by our team in the press
12 January 2017 - Graeme Codrington is featured in the latest CFO magazine, with an article based on the expert session he delivered at the Finance Indaba in 2016. Adapt or Die: Five survival lessons. Graeme's article on page 68.
When the computer says No, don’t blame the computer
On his blog today, Seth Godin deals with a topic close to my heart. We can't blame computers when they simply enact the rules we told them to. We can't blame our systems when things happen that make no sense or are counterproductive. In a world of systems, technology...
Back to school, but for what? Get an education, not a certificate.
Today, many young people in my home country, South Africa, and across the southern hemisphere, are back to school and have started a new year. This can be an emotive day for parents and young people alike, especially for those who are entering pivotal years at school...
Why a technology that won’t work is good news
It's technology silly season at the moment with CES (the Consumer Electronics Show) 2017 in full swing. This is where tech companies come to show off their latest gadgets, and all the world's tech journalists gather to salivate, and write up the easiest stories of the...
Take your broken heart, make it into ART, says Meryl Streep and she lambasted Donald Trump
Meryl Streep, an actress who has achieved remarkable things, "slammed Donald Trump, honoured her late friend Carrie Fisher and praised a room full of Hollywood "outsiders" while accepting the Cecil B. DeMille Award at the 2017 Golden Globes" says Rolling Stones...
VIDEO: Generation X reflects on the Millennials
One of my favourite commencements speeches of this past year was presented at Grinnell College by British novelist, Zadie Smith. She reflects on what she, as a Gen Xer, was thinking and planning when she graduated College back in 1997. And now she provides sage...
Remarkable World? It does not feel that way.
There are very distinct signs that humankind has entered the dawn of a new golden age of technology, a new Age of Discovery, one that has the potential to have as great an impact as the Renaissance. And, yet for the vast majority of people,...
Remarkable World? It does not feel that way.
There are very distinct signs that humankind has entered the dawn of a new golden age of technology, a new Age of Discovery, one that has the potential to have as great an impact as the Renaissance. And, yet for the vast majority of people,...
Seven (important) Leadership Lessons from Santa
Let’s be honest, the fat guy in the red suit is one impressive leader! He never misses a beat, has expectations to meet that would cause even President Zuma to step-down and he gets reindeer to fly. Which reminds me: do you know why Rudolph and Prancer were not sold...
10 Leadership Lessons from Santa
Ho, Ho Ho…it’s that time of year again when the tinsel comes out, trees get decorated and dietary regimes along with turkeys get stuffed. The old guy with the impressive beard comes out from his reclusive lair to both delight and terrorize little people and of course...
TomorrowTrends Podcast : Episode 9 The 2016 Year in Review Special Edition
In this month’s podcast, hosted by Graeme Codrington,
* we take a look back at some of the most significant events of 2016
* we then hear from the TomorrowToday team as to what they expects for 2017
* we provide some personal reflections on living in a filter bubble and how we must change our thinking
* there’s a book review: Daniel Kahneman’s Thinking, Fast and Slow
* and finally we look to 2017 in FinTech and offer some key trends to watch
Duration: 54 minutes
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TomorrowTrends Podcast : Episode 9 The 2016 Year in Review Special Edition
In this month’s podcast, hosted by Graeme Codrington,
* we take a look back at some of the most significant events of 2016
* we then hear from the TomorrowToday team as to what they expects for 2017
* we provide some personal reflections on living in a filter bubble and how we must change our thinking
* there’s a book review: Daniel Kahneman’s Thinking, Fast and Slow
* and finally we look to 2017 in FinTech and offer some key trends to watch
Duration: 54 minutes
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