Leadership Development Programmes: Get your head out the sand!
Here’s a thought: when it comes to your leadership development programmes…don’t measure the programme, measure the outcomes. Most programmes require that the participants rate the content, the delivery and in some cases, the ‘stuff’ that surrounds the learning...
Cisco’s John Chambers on the digital era
Last year, Cisco's CEO, John Chambers become its Chairman. When he became CEO of Cisco Systems in 1995 the world had only just entered the digital age. About 18 million American homes were online, but only 3% of users had signed onto the World Wide Web. Amazon.com had...
Is this the corporate model of the future?
The Rise of the Benefit Corporation Small changes in the corporate code can change the world and on April 13, 2010, Governor Martin O’Malley made history in the US State of Maryland when he passed a law creating a new type of for-profit corporation – the Benefit...
Want to be futurefit? Three necessary leadership skills
In a recent Business Report there was an article by Wayne Houghton titled, ‘Digital transformation key to being relevant in the next decade’. There were 10 skills that were identified as necessary for the future workforce. The list included three that have formed the...
The Power of Meaningfulness (Video)
The belief that what you are doing will deliver meaningful benefits to the world − be it on a global scale or at a macro level, with customers, colleagues or family − is an extremely important and powerful quality of a quest. As Larry Page, the CEO of Google says, “if...
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In the Media [audio]: The science of innovation
Last month, Graeme Codrington was interviewed on The Money Show by Bruce Whitfield on 'The Science of Innovation'. It's a 21 minute long interview about innovation, Africa, technology and organisational DNA. Read a few (badly chosen) quotes from the interview, but...
The Future of Computing
Moore's Law is a difficult concept to wrap our heads around. We can see the impact of exponentially rising computing processing power around us but how do we relate to the doubling in power of a microprocessing chip every two years. We understand it, but do we truly...
The Rise of the Quester Intrapreneur
Quester intrapreneur, n. 1 A person who works inside major corporations or organizations to develop and promote practical solutions to social, ethical, operational or environmental challenges where progress is currently stalled by market and business failures. 2 A...
Pieter Geldenhuys
Tour guide to the Future, Engineer, Innovation expert, Technology Strategist, Academic
What are you doing? A revealing question leaders need to ask.
An old military handbook once stated that, ‘No man is a leader until his appointment is ratified in the minds and hearts of all his men’. It must be old as in contemporary terms that statement would certainly be gender inclusive. However, the statement holds true....
Are we witnessing the death of innovation and the end of growth?
As disruptive forces go, the end of economic growth, would have a tsunami impact on businesses, organisations and countries. We tend to think of economic growth as normal, something we've lived with forever and we expect its continued benefit. Downturns are seen as...
Are we witnessing the death of innovation and the end of growth?
As disruptive forces go, the end of economic growth, would have a tsunami impact on businesses, organisations and countries. We tend to think of economic growth as normal, something we've lived with forever and we expect its continued benefit. Downturns are seen as...
Generation Y and the Quarter-Life Crisis
In this short video, Ray gives an overview of what we mean by the Quarter-Life Crisis... Not the mid-life crisis, but not very different from it either! If you're looking for a more in depth overview of Gen Y and the Quarter-life crisis, you may find this...
Lessons in Leadership and Competitive Advantage
What if, in a changing world efficiency and effectiveness are no longer the bastions of competitive advantage? What if, what modern organisations need is more hare and less tortoise? As the CEO of industrial giant GE, Jeff Immelt says, "Ten or twenty years ago, what...
Leading and Living Through Transitions: Three Instructional Paradoxes
“Write something that connects to FutureFit” was the unambiguous instruction from our eZine Editor and if there is one thing I have learnt in writing it is that you listen to what your editor says. So, there was little room to manoeuvre as I considered exactly what...
Is Leila Janah the most inspirational and exciting leader in the world?
When Leila Janah was very young she wanted to be an ocean explorer. Her hero was Jacques Cousteau and the exploits of the famed French undersea explorer on board The Calypso captivated her. Fascinated by the ocean and the creatures who lived in it she decided to...
The Power of Impossible (Video)
Today's competitive rules are different from previous periods. Strategies that focus on reducing costs and building efficiencies will be less effective than those which are based on offering products and services in more innovative ways. Established companies are...
On Leadership: How to build resilience in your company or team
What CEO wouldn’t wish for a ‘resilient company’? In the prevailing economic conditions, resilience might just be the most important of characteristics for any corporation or organisation. If resilience isn’t part of one’s DNA then chances of surviving the future must...
Welcome to 2029
Futurist, Graeme Codrington, put this video together with an insurance client, Sanlam. It's a look at some key issues we can expect to be dealing with in the world of 2029. Contact us if you would like to book Graeme, or any of our team for your upcoming event....
Welcome to 2029
Futurist, Graeme Codrington, put this video together with an insurance client, Sanlam. It's a look at some key issues we can expect to be dealing with in the world of 2029. Contact us if you would like to book Graeme, or any of our team for your upcoming event....