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[Video]: Keith Coats on leadership adaptability and resilience
Here is a recording from a presentation our resident leadership expert, Keith Coats, did on adaptive leadership, resilience and leadership development. It's just an excerpt, so for the full context, we recommend reading details of The Connection Economy and Adaptive...
The Future of theft…okay bye bye now.
According to the website Stolen Bike Statistics over 500,000 bikes were stolen in the UK over the past five years. This figure is also understated. According to John Moss who compiled these stat "It is largely accepted that only 1 in 5 bike thefts are reported to the...
Just for fun: Why you really, really want a drone at home
It's Friday, and the weekend is here. So, for a bit of fun check out this wonderful use of a drone. Drones are now readily available. My brother, a video producer based in Atlanta USA (see his video channel here) has one of his own that he uses to create amazing...
On Leadership: Failure Guaranteed – sometime, somewhere, somehow.
There is a remarkable cricket statistic than not many who love the game would believe or even dream possible. Yet it is. Amongst all who play the game internationally, having your name inscribed at Lords Cricket Ground, the home of cricket, for either a batting...
The power of storytelling
"A great lasting story is about everyone or it will not last. The strange and foreign is not interesting--only the deeply personal and familiar.” ― John Steinbeck In the Connection Economy, the economy within which we now live, a good story is a must. Stories ignite...
Sharing Your Secrets: What Elon Musk’s latest move at Tesla means for you
I'll admit it: I have a huge man-crush on Elon Musk. I like everything this guy does. From his passion for space exploration and madcap vision of a one way trip to Mars, to his recent announcements about building both flying and submerisble cars, Elon is the very...
A Miracle at the World Cup – and a vision of the future
At tonight's Football World Cup opening ceremony a minor miracle will occur when the opening game between Brazil and Croatia is started by a young man kicking a football. It doesn't sound miraculous until you hear that this young teenager is actually a paraplegic who...
Career Conversations
The world of work provides us with many choices. We can choose our employer and the duration that we want to work for that employer. We can choose to join the entrepreneurial trend and be our own boss. As flexible work arrangements become more common, we can choose...
Career Conversations
The world of work provides us with many choices. We can choose our employer and the duration that we want to work for that employer. We can choose to join the entrepreneurial trend and be our own boss. As flexible work arrangements become more common, we can choose...
Keeping Generations @ Work
Understanding and connecting with people older and younger than yourself We don’t all see the world in the same ways. In today’s world, we’re confronted all the time by diverse ways of thinking and acting. To be successful in engaging with other people, and to improve...
Reclaiming the Village: 4 Lessons from the San Bushmen
In his amazing book Future Primal, Louis Herman, a professor of political science at the University of Hawaii-West O’ahu, articulates how we should respond to our converging crisis of violent conflict, political corruption, and global ecological devastation. Herman’s...
Understanding the Gen Y Quarter-life Crisis and what all of it means for you
Quarter life is a stage that runs through a person’s twenties, and possibly into the very early thirties. Some academic writers have aligned it with Erik Erikson’s Intimacy vs Isolation stage in human development theory. Intimacy vs. isolation - This is the first...
Smaller difference and different reasons for buying
One of TomorrowToday's best associates is Markus Kramer. Until recently, Markus was Global Head of Branding at Aston Martin and before that worked for other luxury brands, including Harley Davidson. He is a true world expert on luxury brands, and the lessons all...
Smaller difference and different reasons for buying
One of TomorrowToday's best associates is Markus Kramer. Until recently, Markus was Global Head of Branding at Aston Martin and before that worked for other luxury brands, including Harley Davidson. He is a true world expert on luxury brands, and the lessons all...
Banks, small businesses and paying for what you don’t use
Earlier this week, I received a message from our business bankers in South Africa, informing me that they would be charging us for all credit facilities that we were not using. This baffled me. Then it irritated me. So, I decided to do something about. I started with...
China: “It’s not pretty but it’s the bloody reality”
I was listening to the head of a large multinational that have significant investments in China speak about the challenges and opportunities that is China. The one line that caught my attention? “It’s not pretty but it is the bloody reality”. That about sums it up for...
Consiglieres, astronauts and rocket science!
Consiglieres, astronauts and rocket science! Imagine a scenario where you are purchasing a house. It’s in a great neighbourhood with superb schools, with all the entertainment and service amenities close to hand. As you can imagine it’s in much demand and other...
On Leadership: The glory of uncertainty
Leaders have traditionally been conditioned to be certain. Conditioned to know the answer and instill confidence in leading the way forward. After all, isn't that exactly what good leadership is all about? Not necessarily. The problem with certainty is that it leaves...
Surprising ideas about the future from TED2014 speakers
At TED2014, the speakers and attendees were asked to think about the conference’s theme, "The Next Chapter" and then suggest what might radically change society, life, technology and the world in the next 30 years. Their insights may surprise you. "One of the things...
The greatest challenge facing the future of business, requires your attention now.
Peter Menzel, is an award winning photographer, takes photographs of people posing next to their possessions taken out of their home and piled high on the pavements. The pictures paint a vividly clear picture - we live in a Material World, also the name of his book....