American industries that will boom and those that are doomed in the next decade
Business Insider recently ran an article looking at Labor Bureau statistics and predicting which industries will experience significant decline in the next decade, and another article suggesting which industries will boom. While I don't agree with their whole list, it...
Booz & Co’s Strategy+Business Best Business Blogs of 2013
The editor of Booz & Co's Strategic+Business magazine and blog site selected his favourite business blogs of 2013. I like this list a lot - there's some really valuable articles here. It's an eclectic list, but well worth taking some time to read through and share...
Driverless cars and a road revolution
FastCompany recently ran an article which is one of the best analyses of the driverless car revolution that is about to take us by storm. It's well worth reading in detail here. As the author points out, what stands in the way of a massive revolution now is not the...
Apple isn’t going away just yet
The predictions of Apple's demise have, it seems, been all too premature. At TomorrowToday, we're big Apple fans. Personally, I am certified Apple cult member, with a completely Apple-infested house (with everything from iPads and iPods to Apple TV and Airports). I...
The real place – where the work is done
Do you go to the real place to understand the changing trends affecting how people live, work and play? The Japanese have a term called "genba" which refers to the real place or where the work is done. For some the real place is the factory floor, for others it's the...
Game changing innovations: Desalinating ocean water
In our TIDES of Change presentation, we've been saying for a few years now that the company that finds a cheap and easy way to desalinate sea water will make more money than they will know what to do with. Access to usable water is one of the key issues the world...
Five New Year’s Resolutions Every Leader Should Make (HBR Blog)
As we head into a new year, an article on the Harvard Business Review blog network caught my eye. It went beyond those pithy list type emails and Facebook status updates you get at this time of year, with some real insight backed by research. The focus is on five key...
The Ideas that Shaped Management in 2013
As we get the new year rolling, my eye caught an HBR article that reviewed some of the fresh management thinking from 2013 that really made an impact around the world (and in the Harvard Business Revie, of course). There are some good thoughts here that could help...
The Ideas that Shaped Management in 2013
As we get the new year rolling, my eye caught an HBR article that reviewed some of the fresh management thinking from 2013 that really made an impact around the world (and in the Harvard Business Revie, of course). There are some good thoughts here that could help...
Seven ‘Leadership’ Lessons from Santa
Let’s face it, the fat guy in the red suit is one impressive leader. He never misses a beat, has expectations to meet that would cause even Zuma to step-down and he gets reindeer to fly. Which reminds me: do you know why Rudolph and Prancer were not sold at the...
Looking out the window: Four leadership insights from 2013
Currently I am on my last business trip for 2013. Soon it will be time for a short break before the travel begins once more in early January with a trip to Ecuador. By the time this trip is complete it will have meant 143 flights that have involved multiple trips to...
The Best Inventions of 2013
We are living at a truly remarkable time of history, when new technologies are making unprecedented levels of invention and innovation possible. I think history will look back on this era and remark on it being a golden age of technological advancement. So, each...
How to be a better leader – practical steps and exercises
Last month, our colleague in South Africa, Keith Coats, started a series of blog entries aimed at helping people become better leaders. He has labelled the series "how to be future fit" and is providing daily, practical tools and exercises that will help you shift...
Changing cycling forever
I don't enjoy cycling, but my UK colleagues do. Dean van Leeuwen, James Dunne and Wendy Mauchline all regularly hit the roads and cycle tracks of the world in a serious way. So, when I saw this neat little video about a new invention, the Copenhagen wheel, I...
You are mistaken Mr Friedman, there was a miracle.
It has been an interesting experience processing both the death and burial of Nelson Mandela from distant shores. Whilst I would have loved to have been home amongst ‘my people’ to fully enter into the emotion, celebration, mourning and expression of this momentous...
‘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;...