Why is storytelling important in business?
What is your competitive advantage in the connection economy? In this 1 minute video clip, Keith (TomorrowToday's Director of Storytelling) explains why storytelling in business is such an important element in forming relationships, connecting with people, and...
Play Well: A lesson for leaders when it comes to serious play
Who is the biggest tyre company in the world? You might be tempted to say Goodyear or Bridgestone but you would be wrong. In fact the biggest (or maybe the smallest) tyre company in the world is LEGO. Today, LEGO produces some three hundred million tyres per year more...
Top 10 YouTube Channels for Leaders
Huffington Post recently published this list of YouTube channels that leaders should watch. With over 6 billion hours of video and thousands of channels, YouTube has something for everyone -- even for those of us who want to become better leaders. Over the last year...
5 Lessons learned, the day I was saved by the cloud
The unthinkable happened. While doing my final preparation, the afternoon before I had to deliver a full day of facilitation for the board of an international shipping company, my hard drive crashed and my computer died. It was the second computer to die on me in six...
Robot wars – and it’s a good thing
Later this year (5 and 6 June to be precise), the final stage of the world's most important robotics competition takes place in California. The DARPA Robotics Challenge (see details here) will see 11 robots compete for the toughest prize in robotics and robot...
The Quest for Atomic Fusion: A lesson for leaders everywhere
When talking to Steve Cowley one is aware that you are in the presence of a great mind. Steve is one of the world’s leading scientists and is the CEO of the UK Atomic Energy Authority, Professor of Physics at Imperial College London and Head of the EURATOM / CCFE...
Sad @ Work
The South African Depression and Anxiety Group (SADAG) in collaboration with Hexor, recently released the most contemporary study in Depression in the workplace- the results are staggering[1]. Depression is so often referred to as a “soft” issue, a HR concern that...
Make things Beautiful
So you have a territory of differentiation. But more often than not, you won’t be alone. In fact, chances are that your segment is heavily commoditized – unless you are a luxury brand, of course. Why should this be of interest? Let me try and explain this through an...
Make things Beautiful
So you have a territory of differentiation. But more often than not, you won’t be alone. In fact, chances are that your segment is heavily commoditized – unless you are a luxury brand, of course. Why should this be of interest? Let me try and explain this through an...
Working in intensity
How are you, Joe? I am SO busy. There is so much going on. I can’t wait for this busy time to be over and we must get together for some lunch and a catch up. Three months pass……. How are you Joe? I am SO busy. When will it be a quieter so we can meet? I don’t know...
The Need for Leaders to be Future Fit: Why it is important and what it will take
I am guessing that we have all had sporadic but inspirational bursts of the desire to get ‘into shape’- to repel the advancing years and waistline and slay the beast. The outcome is usually to get to the gym or don the less-worn running shoes and get to work. All too...
Trust and Leadership
Michael Argyll was one of the best-known English Social Psychologists of the twentieth century. The eminent professor of psychology at Oxford University authored or co-authored over 44 books. As an academic he is best known for his studies on happiness and...
The Future is Changing: Bill Gates on the Next 15 Years
The world is going to change more in the next 15 years than the last 50 combined. Considering how much the world has changed in the last half century, that's quite a bold claim. Nevertheless, more and more indicators are pointing to this being a reality. And more and...
Five ways that artificial intelligence is influencing your life today
When we think about Artificial Intelligence we see robots and science-fiction where computers take over the world and humanity ends up in subjugation. The reality today is that we have artificial intelligence assisting us in many parts of all of our lives with more...
Beyond titles and tag-lines: Bringing out the best in your team
It is an idea so simple, a suggestion so commonplace, it is hard to believe it can be something so overlooked or neglected. In their book ‘Organisations’ authors Bryan Bonner and Alexander Bolinger write about how to get the best out of a team formed to take on a...
Who wants to be part of my omni-channel customer experience?
I have mentioned Richard Stacey before - he was one of the people who speaks the most sense in the world about social media. He can verge on being grumpy about it, but he never fails to accurately and precisely dissect the vast mass of b-s that is growing up around...
The faintest ink is more powerful than the strongest memory
The faintest ink is more powerful than the strongest memory’ is a Chinese proverb that I recently stumbled upon and is one that I believe captures an important point for leaders. It is a good reminder to leaders for two specific reasons: Firstly, as a leader you will...
The Future of Work
The disruptive forces shaping the future workplace and workforce
Life-Logging – A top ten emerging technology for 2015
Steve Mann graduated from MIT in 1994 and began wearing a wireless camera that recorded images of the world, from his Point of View (POV) and displayed them online. The now professor at Toronto University has been campaigning for wearable technology as a human right....
Uncertainty: The new uncomfortable terrain for leaders
Smart leaders know that things are shifting. Shifting rapidly. Actually, I don’t think that you need to be all that smart as a leader to know this! The full impact and messy reality of globalisation, intertwined economies, scary fundamentalism, clashing agendas,...