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[Invitational Leadership] Bringing out the best in others
One of the biggest leadership questions is "How do I bring out the best in others?". "How to bring out the best in those for whom I had the responsibility for leading." It's a good question to be asking! I want to share briefly with you a theory that is known as...
Smart Leadership: Going beyond ‘Just a spoonful of sugar’
“This is what we storytellers do, we restore order with imagination. We instil hope again and again and again” is something Walt Disney said to P.L. Travers in convincing her to sign over the rights to her Mary Poppins in order for him to translate her magical book to...
Talent Retention for the Millennial Generation
Talent retention is a frequent conversation with many of our clients asking ‘How do we keep our young people staying in our business so that we can get the most financial benefit out of their presence?’ That's the wrong question! You already have young people in your...
Talent Retention for the Millennial Generation
Talent retention is a frequent conversation with many of our clients asking ‘How do we keep our young people staying in our business so that we can get the most financial benefit out of their presence?’ That's the wrong question! You already have young people in your...
Don’t ask your kids what they WANT TO BE when they grow up but WHAT PROBLEMS DO THEY WANT TO SOLVE
The people and organisations who will be truly successful in the 21st century will not be those who develop a slightly better product or service than what already exists or the next best dating or social media App, but those who look at their world and ask the...
Where is Rey? Star Wars, Disney, Hasbro and women
Update on 8 January 2016: Hasbro has added this comment to their Facebook page today: "Hasbro Gaming People who have already purchased the Monopoly: Star Wars game can obtain the Rey token by contacting Hasbro Consumer Care when the updated game becomes available...
The Business Benefits of Diversity
When we think of diversity and inclusion in our organizations there are two things that we normally think about and both are problems. The first is that we tend to think of diversity only in terms of women and culture, and of course there are many other types of...
“Sometimes it is the people who no one imagines anything of, who do the things that no one can imagine.”
Over the festive break I watched The Imitation Game; the story of Alan Turing, the inventor of the computer and the man who cracked the Enigma Code used by the Nazis during the Second World War, to encrypt messages. Cracking the enigma code was a quest of epic...
7 things you need to know about being the Boss.
So you’re now a ‘Boss’ to someone. Congratulations! It promises to be an interesting and no doubt challenging journey and there are a few things that you should be aware of as you assume this new responsibility. Before you start, stop…and think. Stop and think about...
The Best of Fast Company 2015
One of my favourite magazines/blogs/ezines is Fast Company. Every day I get a feast of reading from their team, direct to my inbox. Fast Company's staff compiled their "best of" articles for 2015, and it's a great list. You can see their list here. My favourite from...
FastCompany’s predictions for the news stories of 2016
It's that time of year when we look back in review and ahead in anticipation. At TomorrowToday, we don't often indulge in the headline grabbing short-term predictions so popular in the media as one year changes over to the next, but this list from Fast Company caught...
Signposting 2015: Colouring by Numbers
Were I to colour the picture of my year by numbers it would look something like this: 131 flights (45 international and 86 domestic). That equates to 24 days (a ‘day’ being 24 hours) of my year was spent in a plane and a further 8 days sitting in airports somewhere....
Star Wars, Gen Xers and the Making of a Blockbuster in 2015
If you were ever part of even a mildly successful rock band in the 1960s and 70s, get back together again and get on the road as soon as possible: legions of ageing Baby Boomers are just waiting to buy tickets to your sell out concerts, reliving their youth and...
How one mans love for wonky veg is changing the world
Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstal is a celebrity chef on a quest to reduce food waste and has embarked on an audacious journey to cajole grocery retailers into buying and selling what he calls “wonky vegetables.” Here is why Hugh has embarked on his quest. Roughly one third...
How one mans love for wonky veg is changing the world
Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstal is a celebrity chef on a quest to reduce food waste and has embarked on an audacious journey to cajole grocery retailers into buying and selling what he calls “wonky vegetables.” Here is why Hugh has embarked on his quest. Roughly one third...
Going Unplugged: A Case Study & A Dare
“The business was still there when I got back” was the ah-ha revelation of John, a senior retail operations leader who dared go on holiday for two weeks without his cell phone. “In fact” he added, “my staff have grown as a result of taking decisions without me and...
Seeing the Invisible: Shedding light on our blindness
It has been said that we ‘don’t see the world as it is but rather we see the world as we are’. This is very true and it also happens to be the first step along the pathway towards emotional intelligence. It is the gateway to recognising that we each have lenses...
New Business Book – Leadership & Strategy: Quest – Competitive Advantage and the Art of Leadership in the 21st Century, written by Dean van Leeuwen
What if we could empower people everywhere to have the courage and conviction to do their small bit or big bit to change the world? What if through the power of quest we created a culture where people believed they could make a difference? We would craft more...
Gender and Success: Not the level playing field one might assume!
In Sheryl Sandberg’s excellent book, Lean In – Women, Work, And The Will To Lead, she writes of an experiment done in 2003 by Columbia Business School professor, Frank Flynn and New York University professor Cameron Anderson. Their experiment was to do with workplace...
Listed in the Futurist Influence Rankings
Ross Dawson, one of the world's leading futurist, curates a list of the world's top futurists, rated by their online influence. The measurement is fairly crude, based on Twitter followers, Alexa and Klout rankings, and is intended to simply measure the number of...