The Challenge with Giving Feedback
A friend of mine recently attended the Global Leadership Summit and was enthusiastically sharing with me an excellent talk she had heard about giving feedback. It sounded as though the talk had been tailored to the audience and had covered a lot of ground in a mere 30...
Leading in a Changing World
Leading in a Changing World uncovers what leaders need to know, do, and be in order to lead confidently and effectively into an uncertain and adaptive future. Leading in a Changing World explores and unpacks the changing world and leadership context, and provides key...
Leading in a Changing World
Leading in a Changing World uncovers what leaders need to know, do, and be in order to lead confidently and effectively into an uncertain and adaptive future. Leading in a Changing World explores and unpacks the changing world and leadership context, and provides key...
Digital Disruption in Unexpected Places
If you attend a few conferences this year, you'll see this a few times: Uber is the world's largest taxi company, but owns no cars. AirBnb is the world' largest hotel group, but owns no property. Alibaba is the world's largest retailer, but owns no stock or retail...
It’s official: We are living in the future
It's 21 October 2015, and this is the future. At least, it is if you're a fan of the hugely successful Back to the Future film franchise. In Back to Future II, Marty McFly and Doc Emmett Brown leap 30 years into their future to fix a problem with Marty's children. The...
Adaptive Leaders Mind the Gap between Rhetoric and Reality
According to author Richard Dobbs (No Ordinary Disruption) in 1950 a company occupied its place on the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index (S&P 500) for an average of 60 years. By 2011 that span had dropped to 18 years. More concerning is that Dobbs predicts that by...
We have totally screwed up
“We have totally screwed up,” said Michael Horn the American boss of Volkswagen in a public apology. “We must fix the cars to prevent this from ever happening again and we have to make this right. This kind of behaviour is totally inconsistent with our qualities.”...
What to keep and what to discard
The first video in our Future Fit Series - a practical video series that provides insights and practical exercises to become a future-fit leader in a rapidly changing world. Click here for information on the full series, or to get your team enrolled! Here's what...
What to keep and what to discard
The first video in our Future Fit Series - a practical video series that provides insights and practical exercises to become a future-fit leader in a rapidly changing world. Click here for information on the full series, or to get your team enrolled! Here's what...
Back to the future: Lessons from Adidas and the John Lewis Partnership
We live and lead in a world where there is a relentless urge to be ‘future focused’ and futurefit. The need to understand and be ready for disruption in a ‘VUCA’ world – one that is volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous, is important. Certainly companies that...
Video series: Disruptive trends shaping our world
Over the past few months, I have recorded a series of short videos that give bite-sized inputs into the disruptive forces that are shaping our world right now. These videos are 45 seconds to 2 minutes in length, and are ideal conversation starters for your team...
Tomorrowland Leaders – pulling the future forward
In Hacking Leadership, author Myatt wrote, ‘Great leaders don’t move towards the future, they bring the future to them – they pull the future forward. In TomorrowToday we talk a great deal about the need for leaders to be ‘futurefit’ and as important as this is, it...
Come to work every day as if it were your first day.
Adi Dassler, a cobbler by trade, who founded Adidas, once said, “Come to work every day as if it were the first time. This will prevent you being blinded by routine”. Routine and established processes that can be captured by the phrase, “that’s just the way things are...
Come to work every day as if it were your first day.
Adi Dassler, a cobbler by trade, who founded Adidas, once said, “Come to work every day as if it were the first time. This will prevent you being blinded by routine”. Routine and established processes that can be captured by the phrase, “that’s just the way things are...
A Thoughtful Response to – Would you use Performance Enhancing Chemicals at Work
A recent article I wrote on performance enhancing drugs in the workplace received great interaction once it was published online. Andrew sent a personal message to me and it was so inline with the engagement that I was hoping for that I asked him to write a response...
Millennials Rising : The Next Age of Talent Development
For the last 8 to 10 years Talent Development has slipped to a secondary focus in the human capital psyche of organisations. Today, however, the development requirements of a new generation of talent is causing it to once again rise to the fore. This dynamic is being...
5 things leaders need to be aware of in defining reality
Max Dupree has said that, “The first responsibility of leadership is to define reality”. In doing that there are some things to which leaders need pay attention if they are to be successful in defining reality. 1. Not everybody wants the reality defined. Sometimes it...
Our Changing World: Facts and figures to blow your mind
Our team at TomorrowToday Global tracks the disruptive forces shaping the world right now, and attempts to predict where some of these will take us. We don't have a crystal ball, but for nearly two decades we've been honing our ability to do this, and have a fairly...
Meeting with Jim Dator. Futurist. Legend
Recently I had the privilege to meet with Futurist Jim Dator of the University of Hawaii. Jim is renown in futurists’ circles and has left an indelible impression on the disciple of Futures. He has also appeared (as himself) on the TV show South Park, something not...
The Robot Hotel
The hotel of the future is coming. If you're in the hospitality business, how far behind are you? Speak to one of our team about our Tomorrow's World Today presentation or workshop to make sure you are prepared for the future.