True Sustainability: Moving Big Business Beyond the Green Facade
In this video sketch, Apple stages a conversation between Tim Cook and Mother Nature. Of course, it punts Apple’s decarbonisation credentials and commitments for 2030, but still, it’s a wonderful demonstration of what big business can do to be a sustainable force of...
5 for Friday – 23rd February 2024
This week’s combination of resources and articles offers insights and practical resources to help you equip yourself with the skills required in these disruptive times, as well as for the Future of Work. ● Intelligent Advances: Navigating the Rapid Advancements...
Throw Forward Thursday: AI Selected Life-Partner (A Valentine’s Day suggestion)
Would you trust an AI-driven algorithm to help choose your life partner? If people were honest about the data they entered into these systems, and genuine in their desire to find a true life-partner match, this would definitely be an improvement on the basically...
Intelligent Advances: Navigating the Rapid Advancements in Technology, AI, and Automation
Today’s insights are brought to you by my colleague and global futurist, Dean van Leeuwen. As people look around, they can see we are living in an era of rapid technological evolution, marked by 'intelligent advancements.’ The digital revolution, led in part by...
5 for Friday – 16th February 2024
This week’s combination of resources and articles offers insights and practical resources to help you equip yourself with the skills required in these disruptive times, as well as for the Future of Work. ● 10 Breakthrough Technologies 2024 Every year MIT looks...
Throw Forward Thursday: Workplace Monitoring
In the future, we will use smart devices and even implants to monitor our every move, maybe even our thoughts too. How will we use this data? It could be for Big Brother style management of our lives, or it could be for our benefit and wellbeing. That will be up to...
The Importance of Unlearning
Today’s insights are brought to you by my colleague and leadership thinker, Keith Coats. History is littered with personal and corporate examples of those whose failure to read the future proved costly and in some cases fatal. We cling to our old ideas and...
5 for Friday – 9th February 2024
This week’s combination of resources and articles offers insights and practical resources to help you equip yourself with the skills required in these disruptive times, as well as for the Future of Work. • TomorrowToday partners with 1 % for the Planet...
Throw Forward Thursday: Hyper-personalised Peak-performance Workplaces
Imagine arriving at the office, and the lighting and aircon are just perfect, there's exactly the right ambient noise, the desk is set up perfectly, the food and drinks easily available are precisely what you need... everything is set up just right to ensure you can...
TomorrowToday’s Commitment to a Sustainable Future: Embracing 1% for the Planet.
The scorching heat waves crippling supply chains in India, the rising sea levels threatening coastal property values in New York, the droughts decimating harvests in Kenya – these are no longer distant whispers of a climate-stricken future. They are the present-day...
5 for Friday – 2nd February 2024
This week’s combination of resources and articles offers insights and practical resources to help you equip yourself with the skill required in these disruptive times, as well as for the Future of Work. • Shoutout to all the AMAZING parents out there! Balancing...
Throw Forward Thursday: Democracy in the workplace
Imagine we voted for the managers of our teams at work. Imagine our workplaces worked as democracies should. Today's episode has a bit of an activist and culture war tone about it, as I suggest that one possible future for corporations is being more democratic. You...
Do you have the tools you need to anticipate future trends?
Today’s insights are brought to you by my colleague and global futurist, Graeme Codrington. I want to highlight a brilliant Harvard Business Review article published just two weeks ago by fellow futurist, Prof. Amy Webb. Read it on the HBR website (you may need...
5 for Friday – 26th January 2024
This week’s combination of resources and articles offers insights and practical resources to help you equip yourself with the skill required in these disruptive times, as well as for the Future of Work. • In this article, Buhle Dlamini identifies 5 key shifts...
Throw Forward Thursday: Measure and Reward Sleep
Come with me to January 2026, when a major company announces a new reward system for the senior Executives: part of your bonus depends on how well you sleep each night. That's right: we are going to measure your sleep and reward you if you do it well. The science is...
Navigating the Decade of Disruption: 5 Changes for the Future
Today’s insights are brought to you by my colleague and Future of People expert Buhle Dlamini. As we move into 2024, it’s important for leaders to recognise the ways that things are changing and how these changes impact how we need to lead, do business and...
5 for Friday – 19th January 2024
This week’s combination of resources and articles offers insights and practical resources to help you equip yourself with the skill required in these disruptive times, as well as for the Future of Work. • A reminder that Buhle will be in South Africa for...
Throw Forward Thursday: The Workplace in 2024
Welcome to the first "full on" week of the year and welcome to another year of significant shifts in the world of work. In this video, we look at the ten trends we believe will have the most impact on the workplace and the workforce in the year ahead. For more...
5 for Friday – 12th January 2024
This week’s combination of resources and articles offers insights and practical resources to help you equip yourself with the skill required in these disruptive times, as well as for the Future of Work. • Buhle’s coming to South Africa in 2024 - book him now...
Throw Forward Thursday: What to expect in 2024
In the first episode of ThrowFordward Thursday in the new year, we apply our "Grey Elephants" framework to give you some scenarios for what might happen in the year ahead. The biggest question is not "what might happen", but rather "are you set up to take advantage of...