[Video] Behaviours and values are generational
Later today I am involved in an event where a number of young people are competing for a public speaking prize. I've been asked to do my talk on different generations, "Mind the Gap" as a 'warm up act' for this event. It's one of my favourite topics, and still the...
Leadership: The Glory of Getting Stuck
Momentum is important. It is important in sport, it is important in life. We are always encouraged to keep moving and ‘moving forward’ is the marketing tagline for one of Africa’s most prominent banks. Making progress, constant motion, pushing on…the refrain however...
Followership: How to act the other 98% of the time, when we aren’t leading.
Companies and individuals around the world spend billions on courses, books, conferences, and symposiums to develop leadership skills. One thing every single person is though is a follower – everyone is responsible to someone else, or a group of others. Even when we...
What Graeme is currently reading
What Graeme is currently reading I am currently skim reading a few books on future trends and how we can do better at predicting them. On my shelf as I dip in and out of them are: Nate Silver, The Signal and the Noise: The art and science of prediction (2012: always...
The Enemy Within
The best of strategies can be thwarted and undone by the presence of an enemy within the ranks. Even worse, an enemy within can sow the seeds that result in destruction and ultimate annihilation. As a company, you may well have an enemy within. Much of our time as...
Making Your Life Just a Little Easier (what we do at TomorrowToday)
"So, you're like 'Step Zero' then, are you?" We were doing some work a few years ago with the consulting arm of one of the Big Four accounting firms, and one of their team was trying to find a way to position our involvement with a particularly detail oriented...
Another leadership lesson from the kids: Change the conversation
Our youngest, Sipho must have been about four years old at the time. He was duly strapped into the car seat in the rear of the car as was the norm and was on yet another endless ride with Mom about some or other business that couldn’t have been of much interest to a...
On Change: Blue cheese, tastier than ever!
In response to a client’s need to assist team leaders grasp and engage with some required internal change an old story was retold. The underpinning framework guiding the work that was done in Hong Kong and Singapore was that of Spencer Johnson’s ‘Who Moved My Cheese?’...
Succession Planning: 5 lessons from a fallen giant
Something had to stop Manchester United from continuing their dominant ways and it came from what many thought would be the most likely direction: when it came time to change the leader (manager). We all knew that Sir Alex Ferguson (SAF) couldn’t go on forever,...
24 “Future of Work” Voices You Should Know About In 2014
Our colleague and co-founder of TomorrowToday, Dr Graeme Codrington, has just recently been included on two lists of business experts worth following. Switch & Shift named him amongst their "Top 75 List of Human Business Champions". Global Workforce Transformation...
Loyalty: Red and Blue on Merseyside and what we can learn about loyalty
As I write this I am sitting in quaint little coffee shop on Liverpool’s main street, one minutes walk from The Cavern where it all started for The Beatles. As I watch people walk by on what is a rare clear yet chilly day, it is very apparent that one is either blue...
Loyalty: Red and Blue on Merseyside and what we can learn about loyalty
As I write this I am sitting in quaint little coffee shop on Liverpool’s main street, one minutes walk from The Cavern where it all started for The Beatles. As I watch people walk by on what is a rare clear yet chilly day, it is very apparent that one is either blue...
24 “Future of Work” Voices You Should Know About In 2014
Our colleague and co-founder of TomorrowToday, Dr Graeme Codrington, has recently been included on two lists of business experts worth following. Switch & Shift named him amongst their "Top 75 List of Human Business Champions". Global Workforce Transformation included...
Are your companies’ mentoring efforts adding enough value?
A cornerstone of almost all business strategies is the need to get more out of people. It’s because of this that mentoring remains a key component of many development programmes. Especially in South Africa at this time there is a vital need to build the talent...
Excuses for Complacency
It's no secret that we at TomorrowToday are fans of Seth Godin, the author and business thinker. We often share his daily blogs internally and discuss them - they're inspirational and insightful. Here's one from a while ago that made me think. One of the biggest...
Three ways to deal with failure, by Seth Godin
Seth Godin is one of my favourite authors and business thinkers. I find his daily blog inspirational and insightful. Here's one from a while ago that has really stuck with me. I think Seth is spot on with this insight, and it could really help you to deal with failure...
Three ways to deal with failure, by Seth Godin
Seth Godin is one of my favourite authors and business thinkers. I find his daily blog inspirational and insightful. Here's one from a while ago that has really stuck with me. I think Seth is spot on with this insight, and it could really help you to deal with failure...
Africa's new number one economy
Six of the world's top ten fastest growing economies over the past decade are in sub Saharan Africa. The country of my birth and my heart, South Africa, is not one of them. This is a travesty, and a direct comment on the policies that the last ten governments or so...
Africa’s new number one economy
Six of the world's top ten fastest growing economies over the past decade are in sub Saharan Africa. The country of my birth and my heart, South Africa, is not one of them. This is a travesty, and a direct comment on the policies that the last ten governments or so...
Africa's new number one economy
Six of the world's top ten fastest growing economies over the past decade are in sub Saharan Africa. The country of my birth and my heart, South Africa, is not one of them. This is a travesty, and a direct comment on the policies that the last ten governments or so...