Top 5 Reads this week on The Future of Work (15 May 2015)
Every week, I list my top five reads of the previous few days, all focused on understanding the way our world is changing and how this will affect our lives. Enjoy this week's list: Unless You Are Spock, Irrelevant Things Matter in Economic Behavior - an interesting...
4 Factors to consider about CV’s when hiring Digital Natives
Historically a CV, or resumé, has been a useful tool to understand and to assess the ability of a candidate for a role. Increasingly, however, with Digital Natives this may not be as useful a tool. In the past there was a direct link between a job and the life skills...
Leaders are the Brokers of Hope
J.F. Kennedy once said that, “the problems of the world cannot possibly be solved by sceptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need men who can dream of things that never were”. And I am sure that by ‘men’ JFK would have also meant...
New eBook: An Introduction to The Enemy Within
Our latest ebook has just been published digitally. It's a short book, and an easy read, but presents the results of our research team's strategic insights into the key issues teams and organisations are currently facing. The book is called: "An Introduction to The...
VUCA – four organizational culture touch points for Digital Natives
Digital Natives have grown up in a world that has been called the VUCA world. This is an acronym that covers four areas outlined below. V equals volatile U equals uncertain C equals complex A equals ambiguous There is a corresponding VUCA response that we can...
Top 5: This week in the Future of Work (7 May 2015)
Each week, I list my top 5 articles, websites, blogs or online resources of the past seven days. These are not always brand new items on the Net - some come from a few months or years back, but they have been an influence on my thinking about the future of work during...
An Introduction to The Enemy Within
Nine key issues holding your company and your team hostage – and what to do about them to ensure success in a turbulent world
Curiosity and How to avoid the ‘How To’ Seduction
The statistics and our own research conclusively points to the fact that ‘how to’ headlines, titles and literature sells. (This being the case any article with not one but two ‘how to’s’ in the title ought to be a complete winner!)‘How to do this’ and ‘how to do that’...
Five workplace trends impacting the future of work in 2015
1. Increasing global integration and growing diversity The outlook for global growth is strong for 2015 and will continue to accelerate for the remaining decade and more. This is due to sustained growth in emerging markets, the falling cost of oil and growing consumer...
Top 5: This week in the Future of Work (1 May 2015)
Here are the top five articles I have read this week relating to the changing world of work, leadership and disruptive trends. The sword, the printing press and the algorithm: Three technologies that changed the world Cisco’s CEO on Staying Ahead of Technology Shifts...
Mind the Gap
Understanding and influencing different generations
Mind the Gap
Understanding and influencing different generations
The One Thing Leaders Cannot Ignore
The leader’s world is one that is busy, demanding and complex. Many leaders find themselves distracted to the point where they are no longer ‘present’. In this world there can be many ‘casualties’ as things get overlooked, taken for granted or ignored. Culture is one...
What coffee are you offering? Engaging your workforce.
According to a worldwide study by Gallup [1], only 13% of workers, internationally, are considered to be “actively engaged” in their workplace. This leaves a staggering 87% either not engaged or actively disengaged in their work environment. Actively engaged workers,...
What coffee are you offering? Engaging your workforce.
According to a worldwide study by Gallup [1], only 13% of workers, internationally, are considered to be “actively engaged” in their workplace. This leaves a staggering 87% either not engaged or actively disengaged in their work environment. Actively engaged workers,...
Five reasons why the Gen X – Gen Y divide is the next talent management bridge.
Generation Y are not just younger versions of Generation X. Generation X look at Generation Y and see themselves. Gen X don’t see themselves as old, so when they look at younger men and women they resonate with much of their youthful exuberance. The consequence is...
Five reasons why the Gen X – Gen Y divide is the next talent management bridge.
Generation Y are not just younger versions of Generation X. Generation X look at Generation Y and see themselves. Gen X don’t see themselves as old, so when they look at younger men and women they resonate with much of their youthful exuberance. The consequence is...
Top five: This week in the Future of Work (23 April 2015)
Starting today, I am going to be writing a weekly blog entry on my top five reads for the last seven days, specifically focusing on disruptive change, future trends and how they're influencing -and shaping - the world of work. I read a number of magazines and blogs a...
Recently in the media
Our team is often quoted in the media, and our work at events and conferences quoted by the press. Here are a few recent examples: Graeme Codrington speaking at ExpoHR in Portugal (use Google Translate if required) Ivor Blumenthal interviews Graeme Codrington about...
The Future of HR, talent management and L&D
People are our most important asset. This sentence is a standard inclusion in almost every corporate annual statement. Many companies say this, but don't deliver on both the promise and potential inherent in their people. The HR team are often to blame - for not...