Apple just entered your market (Healthcare, I’m talking to you)
For the last few years, our team has enjoyed asking our clients a hypothetical question: "What would the impact be if Apple/Google/Facebook announced today that it was entering your market?". To be honest, I think it should be a thought that strikes fear into all...
Apple just entered your market (Healthcare, I’m talking to you)
For the last few years, our team has enjoyed asking our clients a hypothetical question: "What would the impact be if Apple/Google/Facebook announced today that it was entering your market?". To be honest, I think it should be a thought that strikes fear into all...
[Listen] Keith talking on Generation Gap on Talk Radio 702
Keith was interviewed by John Robbie on 702 Talk Radio this morning. You can listen to the sound clip here (5.43min).
Mentoring and Development – The Enneagram as a development tool
We have been using the Enneagram as an assessment instrument in a Top Talent development programme for a large corporation. We have been wowed by the insights this tool has given us into the development needs of the 200 participants, and have had extremely positive...
What Keith is currently reading
What Keith is currently reading ‘Future Primal – how our wilderness origins show us the way forward’ by Louis G. Herman His thoughts on the book? A ‘game-changer’. I think this book will become one of the most significant books I have ever read. Herman’s breadth of...
A Brave New World: But what about my kids?
The world that is emerging all around us is both exciting and scary in equal measure. Business, political and societal leaders are working hard to understand the implications of disruptive forces and shifting market conditions. But once we’ve put the business...
Partnership Working – What Habits Really Work?
It really does take two to tango! Strawberries and Cream, Lennon and McCartney, Laurel and Hardy, Batman and Robin, Gin and Tonic, Bonnie and Clyde (okay, that one didn’t end so well!) are cited as great partnerships that complement each other and illustrate that you...
Leading in a Changing World: Four things leaders can learn from Postmodernism
If the world has changed then we need a new kind of leadership. The world has changed. Much has been said and written about change and the importance for leaders – wherever they might be, to adapt to the changes that have taken place. In fact it is often highlighted...
Books 4 Leaders 2 Read
A list of 42 books recommended by our team, for leaders who wish to face the future with confidence. Man’s Search for Meaning - Frankl Synchronicity - Joworski Presence - Senge, Scharmer, Jaworski & Flowers The Fifth Discipline - Senge Leadership and the New...
GROWTH Innovation: A practical framework for development
In TomorrowToday we believe from experience and observation of clients around the world, and through reading and tracking innovation trends, that there has been an evolution in Innovation practice just as there has been in most other areas of business. We have a...
The Potential – and Problems – of Being Generation X
Generation Xers are becoming middle aged. And some of them are not doing it in style. They're also causing some chaos in their workplaces with their emphasis on family, flexibility and their own goals above those of their companies. In this brief video, I outline some...
It really IS about your people – now, more than ever!
People are your most important asset! You know this, because your company's annual statements include this sentence every year. But do companies really believe this? They'd better. Most of the efficiencies your company is hoping to achieve in the next few years can...
Graeme Codrington, Richard Brandson, Keith Coats & Jo Malone talk on Stimulating Business Growth (Video)
A short video (2.33min) of interviews with internationally recognized business professionals, including Richard Brandson, Graeme Codrington, Jo Malone and Keith Coats who share their advice and insights. This video was put together...
Horse Play – Learning about leadership
A repost, triggered by this article which appeared in the Skyway Magazine this month, of an article Keith Coats wrote a while back reflecting on our experiential leadership programme that we partner with Horse Play with in the Natal Midlands. "As I write this I am...
Rewriting the Rules: understanding the era we’re living in
It’s easy to think that maybe all we need to do to survive this crazy world we live in is just grit our teeth a little bit longer and wait for sanity to return. The madness of the election cycle will soon be over, and a new parliament installed (you will have your own...
Rewriting the Rules: understanding the era we’re living in
It’s easy to think that maybe all we need to do to survive this crazy world we live in is just grit our teeth a little bit longer and wait for sanity to return. The madness of the election cycle will soon be over, and a new parliament installed (you will have your own...
Happy birthday World Wide Web
It was on 12 March 1989 that a young British scientist, Tim Berners Lee, working at CERN in Switzerland sent a memo to his boss entitled "Information Management: A Proposal". In it he proposed to develop a way to share information over a computer network. "A 'web' of...
Print me a face: another mind blowing use for 3d printers
At TomorrowToday, we're big fans of 3d printing technology. We've been speaking about it for more than 5 years now. I actually have a 3d printer at home, and as a team we write about the implications of 3d printing regularly (see a review of home 3d printing options,...
Print me a face: another mind blowing use for 3d printers
At TomorrowToday, we're big fans of 3d printing technology. We've been speaking about it for more than 5 years now. I actually have a 3d printer at home, and as a team we write about the implications of 3d printing regularly (see a review of home 3d printing options,...
7 Things you need to know about being a boss
Keith recently wrote an article for HR Pulse where he shares with the readers 7 points that anyone assuming the new responsibility of 'being the boss' should be aware of. The following are the seven points he speaks to, and of course the wisdom he shares for each...