Six Things You Need To Know About Leadership Development Programmes #3
As TomorrowToday we have the privilege to both design and participate in Leadership Development Programmes (LDPs) throughout the world. We work internationally with some of fineness business schools and blue-chip multi-nationals in this arena. We have seen a great...
Getting rid of email – here’s a company that’s done just that
Over the last few months I have begun to include a small section in some of my workshops on the clutter and "stuff" that makes work life a pain. Almost all participants identify meetings and email (and many add managers, for a "3M" trilogy of evil). Email is going to...
Six Things You Need To Know About Leadership Development Programmes #1
As TomorrowToday we have the privilege to both design and participate in Leadership Development Programmes (LDPs) throughout the world. We work internationally with some of fineness business schools and blue-chip multi-nationals in this arena. We have seen a great...
Six Things You Need To Know About Leadership Development Programmes #2
As TomorrowToday we have the privilege to both design and participate in Leadership Development Programmes (LDPs) throughout the world. We work internationally with some of fineness business schools and blue-chip multi-nationals in this arena. We have seen a great...
South Africa Business Events Catalogue now available
For anyone who does conferencing work in Southern Africa, the Business Events Africa catalogue is an invaluable resource, listing providers of conferencing facilities, speakers and related services. It's just been published and will be available in printed format. But...
On leadership: If I don’t see you again, have a good life
"If I don't see you again, have a good life" was how a participant on global leadership programme in Guangzhou ended a conversation with me as we parted. The comment immediately resonated especially as it had been said with a sincerity that made it seem as though it...
Digital Natives – The back-story
The development of Digital Natives as a concept can trace its roots through the history of computers. Through the 70’s and 80’s computers went from being the size of your house to something you could have in a room in your house. Through the 80’s and 90’s computers...
Microsoft targets Gen Z
Microsoft has acquired Mojang the maker of Minecraft for $2.5bn [see AFP article below]. Minecraft is a game with very simplistic graphic and game play but it has managed to garner a player base numbering in the millions spread across the Digital Natives demographic....
Leadership Reflection: Goodbye and Aloha
I am about to embark on another stint teaching in the East West Center’s renowned, Asia Pacific Leadership Program (APLP). This will be my 13th straight year teaching in APLP, a programme that is itself only 14 years old. There have been additional leadership...
What constitutes middle class, a growing global disruption
Today Graeme Codrington and I are part of the London Business School team working with the leadership of a petroleum company from the Middle East. The course is being held in London and we were talking to them about disruptive forces. One of the forces that will...
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,...