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...
Seamless Customer Experience: this is retail’s digital future
The digital world has disrupted our marketing worlds and changed the way business communicates with people. Social media has opened the door to two-way conversations with data giving us a better understanding of our market and mobile making our message more accessible...
Seamless Customer Experience: this is retail’s digital future
The digital world has disrupted our marketing worlds and changed the way business communicates with people. Social media has opened the door to two-way conversations with data giving us a better understanding of our market and mobile making our message more accessible...
Digital Natives and the new normal of socialising
I was recently in a conversation with a person who recounted an experience with her two teenage Digital Native Children. [Digital Native: A digital native is a person who was born during or after the general introduction of digital technologies and through interacting...
Recent media mentions
Graeme Codrington has appeared in the media a few times in recent weeks. Here is a sampling of his contributions: Speaking on Gen Y at the British Hospitality Association annual convention, Graeme focused attention on the impact that a younger generation is having on...
TomorrowToday Foundation funds a library
As part of our commitment to the development of the next generation, TomorrowToday launched its Foundation last year. The Foundation raises funds (from our team, our clients and friends, and a percentage of our profits each year), and allocates these to worthy...
Future Fit: 30 Leadership lessons for Adaptive Leaders
So, what kind of leader do you want to be – and what are you doing to ‘get there’? * Watch the first video of the series below if you want to jump in right away. These are important questions for any leader to have a bearing on, as they will bring intentionality to...
Change is hard – I’ll be ready tomorrow
Having breakfast with a CEO recently and talking about organisational change, he came out with the memorable line, “change is hard – I’ll be ready tomorrow”. It wasn’t a personal reference but rather the unspoken response he seems to encounter from his senior leaders...
I have seen the future – and it only costs $35
A few weeks ago I was doing a workshop with a telecoms company. We were looking at some of their thoughts around global expansion, especially into developing markets and across Africa. Then they showed me something that is going to change the world. It's pictured...
The Mindfulness Circle
Conceptually understanding the Cycle of Self is key to maximizing our potential. It explains our “why”. Why we believe what we believe, why we think what we think, and why we do what we do. We can leverage Simon Sinek’s Golden Circle to help illustrate the “why”,...
On Leadership: The not-so-simple matter of translation
Recently I had the privilege to attend a graduation ceremony. It was of course wonderful to see young people rewarded for years of hard work and was a forceful reminder of the importance of the academic contribution to our knowledge base. Theory forms the base that...