Four lessons in leading people as a young entrepreneur
Three years ago I started DigitLab, and with it I began leading people. I wanted to lead a team instead of manage them. I believe that people are at their best when they are happy, challenged, inspired and a part of a bigger vision. I have always believed it - now...
The four horsemen of mediocrity, by Seth Godin
Seth Godin's blog today is superb. He is identified four key reasons that employees are disengaged, that productivity is declining or stagnant, and that companies struggle to innovate and develop. The four horsemen of mediocrity by Seth Godin Deniability--"They...
[Video] Keith presenting TIDES of Change
We live in turbulent times – that much is obvious.  We are living at a moment in history when all the forces of change are combining to produce an era-changing period. The political, corporate, social and personal rules for success and failure are all being...
[Video] Keith presenting TIDES of Change
We live in turbulent times – that much is obvious.  We are living at a moment in history when all the forces of change are combining to produce an era-changing period. The political, corporate, social and personal rules for success and failure are all being...
Gamification and your life
One of the trends TomorrowToday has been tracking for several years is that of Gamification. Simply put, this reflects that reality that just as social networking, search engines, and online media have changed the way we live, so too has the prevalence of computer...
Your next step: Thinking like a Futurist in 2014
It is that time of year again when everyone is having their say about the likely trends that will dominate or surface during the course of 2014. Recent editions of Time, Fortune and the Economist have all run lead articles looking into the crystal ball of 2014. It is...
A Crystal Ball for Business: 9 Tips for Future Success
As another year dawns and we turn our eyes to 2014, it’s still clear that we are living and working in an era of extreme uncertainty. A global recession continues and is combining with significant disruptive forces in technology, politics, economics, corporate...
Understanding different generations and why this is important.
We are living in a world of paradox, and leaders need to start developing frameworks to deal with this paradox; frameworks of understanding. Generational Theory helps us understand the value systems of each generation. Values drive behaviour and understanding the...
Understanding different generations and why this is important.
We are living in a world of paradox, and leaders need to start developing frameworks to deal with this paradox; frameworks of understanding. Generational Theory helps us understand the value systems of each generation. Values drive behaviour and understanding the...
Facts: Much to do about nothing – or quite the contrary?
 ‘Facts’ like statistics, can either be very insightful or actually prove to be somewhat unhelpful. Consider the following 10 facts:  88% of plane crashes occur in the first three minutes or the last eight minutes of a flight (reassuring as I am writing this in the...
Facts: Much to do about nothing – or quite the contrary?
 ‘Facts’ like statistics, can either be very insightful or actually prove to be somewhat unhelpful. Consider the following 10 facts:  88% of plane crashes occur in the first three minutes or the last eight minutes of a flight (reassuring as I am writing this in the...
[Video] Adaptive Challenges: Knowing what to do when you don’t know what to do
A short video clip [1.13min] from some work that Keith recently did with one of our clients talking about Adaptive Leadership. Leaders need to know what to do when they don't know what to do. Leaders need to be learners, and organisations need to be learning...
[Video] Adaptive Challenges: Knowing what to do when you don’t know what to do
A short video clip [1.13min] from some work that Keith recently did with one of our clients talking about Adaptive Leadership. Leaders need to know what to do when they don't know what to do. Leaders need to be learners, and organisations need to be learning...
New Year, New Start
New Year New Start… I won’t start with a ‘Happy New Year’ salutation as a recent online forum suggested January 11th is the last ‘official day’ to use that greeting – glad to hear that it was done online rather than a government sanctioned international select...
The Year of the Employee: Forbes’ predictions for 2014 talent, leadership and HR tech
Ian Turner, one of Duke CE's top MD's and leadership development programme experts gets credit for finding this interesting article and sending it on to me. There are some fascinating thoughts in Deloittes' predictions for 2014, published in Forbes, as they suggest...
Cyber Bullying: Are you ready for this?
Parents, do you know what 420, TDTM and GNOC mean in cyber speak? Whether you do or don’t, there’s a good chance your child does – 420 means marijuana, TDTM means Talk Dirty to Me, and GNOC means Get Naked on Cam. This language, which includes a P991 (parent alert),...
No fracking please we are British
The heat surrounding the debate, protesting and exploration for Shale Gas in the UK is on the rise. On the 10th January last year, I posted a blog predicted that shale gas would revolutionise the world and that the UK and it's European partners needed to act quickly...
What teachers really want to tell parents
As southern hemisphere schools start up a new academic year, and teachers and pupils head back to school, the single biggest complaint I hear repeatedly when speaking to teachers has to do with parents. Over the past decade or so, Generation Xers (born in the 1970s...
Idealising the past: Being unsocial
A few weeks ago the following picture was doing the rounds on Twitter and Facebook, under the heading: "modern technology makes us more unsocial": There's an excellent point to be made in this photo, and in the similar I found below. Older generations often idealise...
A new skyline for Johannesburg
Late last year, a Chinese property company spent a significant amount of money to buy the remaining AECI property in Modderfontein, a massive industrial area east of Sandton and Johannesburg. It's in the area between Marlboro (a Gautrain station) and the airport....