The Concierge: Luxury or Commodity?
‘Get our credit card and we’ll give you free ‘Concierge’ service; sign up for our premium bank account and we’ll help you arrange your life beautifully, buy a VERTU and concierge comes for free … and if you’re in the US, buy a Hyundai Equus’ … “because...
Award winning emerging market startups with a global edge
Seedstars World is a Geneva-based company that holds competitions for startups around the world. Their list of competition winners from the last year includes 19 emerging market companies that are innovating products and services with some exceptional promise. We...
Digital Natives @ Play – where online and offline merge
I was recently doing some end of winter gardening. My Digital Native children aged 11 and 7 ½ were outside helping. They were soon bored and began to play instead. Soon the game was a good old-fashioned Army game of “Bang! You’re dead!” played with sticks and pieces...
The Business of Holidays
Summer is just about over and many of us have enjoyed a break, whether it was a ‘staycation’ or ‘vacation’. I spent 10 days on the southwest coast of Cyprus where the weather was flawless and thankfully, not a lot else to do other than sit near a pool, catch up on my...
The sports car that runs on SALTWATER
The sports car that runs on SALTWATER: Vehicle goes from 0 to 60mph in 2.8 seconds - and has just been approved for EU roads Quant e-Sportlimousine's top speed is 217mph - equal to a McLaren P1 The car uses a saltwater flow cell system to power four electric motors...
Seven insights to help you become a great leader
The contemporary challenges facing corporate leaders are well documented. The context for leadership is one filled with complexity, ambiguity, volatility and uncertainty. They are challenges that aren’t going to go away or change anytime soon and if leaders hope to...
Age Quake: A Global phenomenon with two fault lines
In early August 2014 Stats SA released the annual population estimates for South Africa. The report made for interesting reading, especially when our demographic information is positioned against that of the major developed economies of the European Union and the...
A leader’s most important job
Discovery leaders explore new ways. New business and markets are created because someone found a better way to do something. Discovery is an adventure. Imagination, design and creativity are the lexicons of discovery. It is fleet of foot, nimble and athletic....
On Leadership: The real innovation needed.
Innovation has been a business ‘buzz’ word for some time now and has, in and of itself, become ‘big business’. Everyone wants to be innovative; everyone wants to be associated with the perceived benefits of innovation; everyone knows that they simply have to be...
Leader Fit
With all the demands that are placed on leaders in today’s World of Work, most are still struggling to cope with the complexity and change impacting their business, managing their own career and health as well as balancing their family life all at the same time. Then,...
Millennials in the Workplace: an article on 60 Minutes
This 3 minute intro to a full 60 minute programme does a great job of identifying, and connecting with, some of the challenges that the Millennial generation bring into the workplace. They ARE different, and we will have to shift traditional ways of relating to staff...
Millennials in the Workplace: an article on 60 Minutes
This 3 minute intro to a full 60 minute programme does a great job of identifying, and connecting with, some of the challenges that the Millennial generation bring into the workplace. They ARE different, and we will have to shift traditional ways of relating to staff...
Meet Gen Y: Five videos, ten minutes and a lot of insight
Raymond de Villiers is TomorrowToday's Gen Y guru. He works hard to understand today's young people, and then make sense of them for you and me and our businesses. He's packaged some of his insights into short "thought bullet" videos that I am sure will be valuable to...
A hidden secret of the Ice Bucket Challenge success – and the future of communication
The Ice Bucket challenge for ALS is probably the most successful meme created thus far for social media. Of course, social media experts are now trying to reverse engineer it to discover the secrets to successfully created a viral campaign - that holy grail of modern...
Leading in a Changing World
Much of the work we do as TomorrowToday revolves around this particular theme: leading in a changing world. We help leaders both understand and respond to an exponentially changing world. Leadership is always context specific and this is why leaders cannot afford to...
Insights on Beer, Vinegar and Customer Experience
I have come to believe that we are all spinning our wheels in our efforts to change until we learn to understand and embrace our irrationality. I watched anotherDan Ariely talk this weekend and he shared an analogy that really helps illustrate why we are so...
The smart move is not to ignore China
I have the privilege to do repeated work in China. Frequent and regular trips have grown a respect, awe and amazement at what I see and encounter. My ‘Chinese experience’ and continuous education has fueled a deeper curiosity and appreciation for the unfolding story...
Blackberry: Time of death…?
John Chen, the CEO brought in to arrest Blackberry slide into oblivion believes that Blackberry has turned the corner and can be saved. In an article by Nic Fildes in THE TIMES Business (6 August) Chen was quoted as telling staff that the worse was over although there...
Don’t trust Deutsche Bank…well when it comes to football at least!
Before the 2014 FIFA World Cup, analysts within Deutsche Bank developed a computer model to forecast the results. The winners? Why, England of course. It should be pointed out that they were after all ‘foreign exchange analysts’ which might just be submitted as...
Leadership Magazine finds its inspiration from the TomorrowToday Message
In the July 2014 edition of Leadership, South Africa’s premier leadership magazine (it also happened to be their 350 publication – congratulations!) there appeared an article by Dr Rene Uys, titled ‘Connecting the Dots: the Connection Economy demands a paradigm shift...