‘Tell them what they want to know not just what you want to tell them’
This is an familiar quote to anyone well versed in designing learning and development interventions for executive audiences from any sector in the private or public domain. It relates to ensuring that the designers listen to the client issues before developing...
Humble Inquiry: The art of asking questions and why it’s a crucial leadership discipline
"If you leave today asking more questions than I give you answers, then I will consider today's session a success" says Dr Graeme Codrington, TomorrowToday's founding and international partner during his presentation on The TIDES of Change. An important leadership...
Today’sTransformers: Hointer & Nadia Shouraboura
“We write code, play with robots, experiment with tensioned tubes and cables and drink lots of Red Bull,” says Nadia Shouraboura CEO of new start up Hointer a retail store that combines technology and with traditional shopping. It's the ultimate in high-tech, modern...
How did things ever get so far?… It was so unfortunate, so unnecessary
This post is submitted by TomorrowToday associate Dil Sidhu, Chief External Officer at Manchester Business School These were the words spoken by the fictional crime family patriarch Don Corleone in the movie ‘The Godfather’ in reference to actions and counteractions...
TomorrowToday: Welcome to our world
Imagine a company with no written contracts between the business partners; no offices; no underpinning capital; as much - or little leave as you want; measured by outcomes; no HR policies or any policies really - just sensible agreements on how things should work;...
TomorrowToday: Welcome to our world
Imagine a company with no written contracts between the business partners; no offices; no underpinning capital; as much - or little leave as you want; measured by outcomes; no HR policies or any policies really - just sensible agreements on how things should work;...
Talent Management: It’s a three-door problem
The magazine ‘Parade’ had a column ‘Ask Marilyn’ by the person with the highest recorded IQ (according to the Guinness Book of Records), Marilyn vos Savant. In 1990 Craig Whitaker of Columbia wrote in with a question that is known as the ‘Monty Hall’ problem. The...
Two important questions every leader should be asking.
Over the past month I have been writing a series on how to be a great leader – how to become an adaptive leader. In today’s context there is an urgent need to rethink the approach and practice of leadership. This need to rethink extends to how we approach leadership...
Video: Graeme Codrington on Tomorrow’s Technologies Today
Earlier this year, our international director, Graeme Codrington, spoke at an event called AgriVision, which focused attention on how we will feed the growing world's population over the next few decades. Following Michael Porter on stage, Graeme's presentation looked...
Video: Graeme Codrington on Tomorrow's Technologies Today
Earlier this year, our international director, Graeme Codrington, spoke at an event called AgriVision, which focused attention on how we will feed the growing world's population over the next few decades. Following Michael Porter on stage, Graeme's presentation looked...
Top 7 Trends for Social Media in 2014
Going into 2014 I have spent some time looking into the predicted trends and have highlighted a few that I believe will take place in 2014. Image based content will increase This is a no-brainer but should be said. Image based content is becoming a high priority in...
“Minority Report” type marketing misses the point of the Connection Economy
Scanning cameras lock onto John Anderton's face as he walks through a shopping mall. Using facial recognition technology advertisers clock his presence and begin an invasive barrage of "personalised" advertisements designed to entice, cajole and convince him to...
When social media turns on you (don’t blame the messenger)
There will lots of chatter again about whether social media is a good thing or not after JP Morgan had to abandon a planned Twitter Q&A yesterday. The bank had invited people to tweet questions to them using the hashtag #AskJPM. Before the official live session even...
Preparing for Generation Z (or whatever you’d like to call them)
They have variously been named the “Homeland” generation, the “Re-generation” and the “Centennial” generation – but at the moment, we know them best (and rather lazily) as Generation Z. In the US, this generation is often held to have been born from 1995...
So you want to become a great leader?
Transforming a good leader into a great leader means becoming an adaptive leader. In facing the future, it is the major leadership challenge that you and your organisation will encounter. Good leaders are hard to come by. Growing good leaders from within is perhaps...
Seven steps to creating a Vibrant, Unreal, Crazy and Awesome world
The acronym VUCA comes from military vocabulary and stands for volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous situation. Originating in the late 1990's the term has infiltrated corporate and government organisations used primarily to generate emerging ideas and solutions...
Film director Joss Whedon on strong female leads
Joss Whedon, according to his Wikipedia entry, is an American screenwriter, film and television producer, director, comic book author, composer, and actor. He is the founder of Mutant Enemy Productions and co-founder of Bellwether Pictures. He is best known as the...
Businesses that are building sustainable competitive advantage by doing good for society (Case Study)
In an earlier blog I spoke about the "perversions of the proper workings of capitalism". In my mind Capitalism is inherently good. The Capitalist seeks to find and address a need. They innovate, take risks and work out how to use capital to make a profit. The...
Reasons Why We Don’t Need Offices
I started my "proper" working career (after some military service which included being a professional musician, some student type part-time jobs and early entrepreneurial activity) at KPMG in the early 1990s. I joined the audit group, and was shown a corner of the...
Reasons Why We Don't Need Offices
I started my "proper" working career (after some military service which included being a professional musician, some student type part-time jobs and early entrepreneurial activity) at KPMG in the early 1990s. I joined the audit group, and was shown a corner of the...