Millennials: Motivated by meaningfulness and Impact
In my book Quest: Competitive advantage and the Art of Leadership in the 21st Century, chapter 2 tells the story of the millennial generation being a generation of questers on steroids. This generation is driven by having a positive social impact on communities around...
Become a Talent Magnet
By Raymond de Villiers and Nikki Bush We need to start marketing our organisations differently if we want our talent attraction efforts to work because young talent isn’t looking for a job, they are looking for an experience. Recruiting talented, high-performing...
Become a Talent Magnet
By Raymond de Villiers and Nikki Bush We need to start marketing our organisations differently if we want our talent attraction efforts to work because young talent isn’t looking for a job, they are looking for an experience. Recruiting talented, high-performing...
We predicted the demise of Yahoo three years ago
One should not indulge too often nor too deeply in "I told you so" moments. But as news that Verizon has acquired Yahoo broke, I couldn't help but think back to a post our team wrote in March 2013, a few weeks after Marissa Mayer began her tenure as Yahoo CEO. One of...
Would your people strip naked and paint themselves blue?
Recently some 3 200 people from throughout Britain and beyond gathered at 3am in the city centre of Hull to strip naked and be painted blue. You might be thinking ‘only mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the midday sun’ should have been coined as, ‘only mad Englishmen...
Tuesday Tips: Too much “blah, blah, blah”…
The Problem: Too much “blah, blah, blah”… Far too often in meetings and conversations there is too much talking. Words spoken without much thought and sometimes, without much meaning. All too often it means that those we should be hearing from, those with something we...
Tuesday Tips: Too much “blah, blah, blah”…
The Problem: Too much “blah, blah, blah”… Far too often in meetings and conversations there is too much talking. Words spoken without much thought and sometimes, without much meaning. All too often it means that those we should be hearing from, those with something we...
Technology that will change our lives in the next 20 years
I am a futurist. Or a futurologist, if you prefer. When I am introduced by this title, I often get inquisitive looks and furrowed brows as people ask, "what's that?" Simply stated, futurists tracks trends, analyse data related to innovations and changes in markets, as...
Technology that will change our lives in the next 20 years
I am a futurist. Or a futurologist, if you prefer. When I am introduced by this title, I often get inquisitive looks and furrowed brows as people ask, "what's that?" Simply stated, futurists tracks trends, analyse data related to innovations and changes in markets, as...
Engaging your young talent
By Nikki Bush and Raymond de Villiers Statistics across the board increasingly indicate that people are disengaged at work. They come to work and do their time. They turn up but they are not invested in what they do. Talent engagement strategies within organisations...
As predicted – no load shedding for the foreseeable future
This time last year, South Africa was in the midst of an energy supply crisis, with rolling blackouts (called 'loadshedding') and a completely unreliable electricity grid. Our team at TomorrowToday made a bold prediction: the problem would last just the one winter and...
When is the news not the news? – a question for leaders
As a Futurist and someone passionate about what it means to be a FutureFit leader, getting the news is important. In today's saturated multi-media world getting the news is beyond easy as more often than not the constant news flow threatens to overwhelm one. However,...
Donald Trump and BREXIT prove it’s never been easier to challenge the impossible. So why aren’t you?
At just past midnight (GMT), on the 20th July, Donald Trump clinched the Republican nomination for US president. When Donald Trump announced his intention to run for president, many people dismissed his candidacy as a joke. Seems that Trump is having the last laugh...
Tuesday Tips: Where to go to see the future
The Problem: I know I need to look at the future, but where should I go for my information? Before we answer the question, let’s be clear about why we need to do this. Everyone needs to be future-focused these days - we cannot leave this to a small team in our...
Our latest podcast episode is live
This month's podcast looks at the latest Pokemon craze and specifically addresses why technology like augmented reality and virtual reality is going to change our world as we know it. (And no, it's not because everyone is now out looking for Pokemons! There are of...
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[VIDEO] How to do meetings better
Almost every client I've ever worked with has confessed that they don't do meetings as well as they would like to. I think this is a universal complaint. We could - and should - do meetings better. But thinking about doing meetings better is not just about the...
TomorrowTrends Episode 5: The VA, AR and Pokemon Go episode
The most important advances in technology happening right now are the arrival of virtual and augmented reality apps. The new game from Nintendo, Pokemon Go, has brought augmented reality into our every day world in just a few, mad cap days. But look beyond the fad, and you’ll find a technology that is going to change the world and impact every aspect of our lives. It therefore deserves your team’s attention.
This month’s Tomorrow Trends podcast shines a spotlight on VR and AR, and can be used to spark strategic conversations about them with your team.
We also review the book, “The Dirty Game” about the scandal at FIFA and implications for leadership
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TomorrowTrends Episode 5: The VA, AR and Pokemon Go episode
The most important advances in technology happening right now are the arrival of virtual and augmented reality apps. The new game from Nintendo, Pokemon Go, has brought augmented reality into our every day world in just a few, mad cap days. But look beyond the fad, and you’ll find a technology that is going to change the world and impact every aspect of our lives. It therefore deserves your team’s attention.
This month’s Tomorrow Trends podcast shines a spotlight on VR and AR, and can be used to spark strategic conversations about them with your team.
We also review the book, “The Dirty Game” about the scandal at FIFA and implications for leadership
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Elizabeth Holmes, the Story of a Fallen Quester
At the age of nine, Elizabeth Holmes, an innovator and entrepreneur, wrote to her father saying: "What I really want out of life is to discover something new, something that mankind didn't know was possible." It was clear from the onset that she was always going to be...
Brexit: Resetting the Clocks
The Church fete. A quaintly British institution seems a fitting context in which to write about Brexit and add even more words on a divisive a subject already weighed down by words, some smart and others not so smart. As I sit in a shaded corner of the expansive manse...