Inc.com’s Best Business Books picks
I am a big fan of Inc magazine. It's aimed at "new world of work" entrepreneurs and small businesses, and always has insightful and useful articles. One caught my eye in particular, as it came from Leigh Buchanan, who, amongst other contributions, reviews new business...
Dear CEO, You have to be in it to win it (I’m talking social media, you dinosaur)
You'll lose 100% of the shots you don't take. You'll find this pithy advice in almost every motivational book. But being a cliche doesn't mean it isn't true. You have to be in it to win it. In the business world, this maxim is applied when companies look seriously at...
Why graduates remain unemployed (and what to do about it)
Yesterday, I presented our team's most requested presentation, "The TIDES of Change" to a group of top business leaders in Sandton. During the Q&A, someone asked a simple but profound question: "What makes you most nervous?" When thinking of the next decade, my...
The Future is leaving: how not to get left behind
By 2014, the percentage of companies that generate at least 30% of global revenue from emerging markets will increase by 82%. The key to that statement is, ‘from emerging markets’. The global economic epicentre is shifting and the future looks nothing like the...
Mirrors, cameras, social media and cultural evolution – Seth Godin
Earlier today, Seth Godin posted an interesting piece on his blog about mirrors, cameras and cultural evolution. Read it at his blog or below. He points out that a few centuries ago nobody would have known what their "true" reflection looked like as their were no...
Bag Tossing, Rules and Leadership: A point worth consideration.
Stefan Kraemer is a happy and proud athlete. His throw of 24.21m was enough to see him win the gold in the World Cup in Bottrop, Germany. Right now you are desperately trawling your memory bank trying to locate ‘Stefan Kraemer’ aren’t you? Not wishing to be found...
Good news for animals…and vegetarians: but what about leadership?
In London scientists recently (5 August) unveiled the first purely lab-grown beef burger and tested it on a select group of tasters (sounds like a good job to have…for the most part at least!). It is seen as the end of the first part in delivering lab-grown meat to...
Video: Four levels of institutional change
A brief overview of our team's view of Institutional Change, one part of our TIDES model of the five disruptive forces shaping our world right now: This video of Graeme Codrington was recorded by our good friends at Your Business Channel as part of their...
Introducing the TomorrowToday App
. The TomorrowToday App is your personalised live feed of insights and articles from the expert futurists and business strategists at TomorrowToday. It is a great tool for leaders to help them understand the disruptive forces shaping the future of our business....
The Most Profound Tool For Growing Your Human Capital
Most businesses, organizations and institutions today recognize that necessity and benefit of harnessing their human capital. Due to the fact that the world has changed so much and because we are in a constant state of change, managers have to find ways to maximise...
The twin challenge that could sink your boat
In TomorrowToday we have had the privilege to have been involved with several profession service firms internationally – both in the accounting and legal spheres. Such institutions are always quick to inform you that they are different – different from ‘the corporate...
The Ashes debacle: Maybe Australia should have done their homework!
Australian cricket is in crisis and it is a situation that gift-wraps several important lessons for any executive team. Of course we are aware of the ‘homeworkgate’ episode with former coach, Mickey Arthur. Against the backdrop of poor results, Arthur had invited the...
Things People Can Still Do Better Than Computers
Over the last hundred years, we've learnt the hard way that modern technologies both improve our world and destroy our jobs. Today it is computers (in the form of smart devices), the internet and social media that are both revolutionising how we live and transforming...
Video: Technology replacing professionals in 10 years
If you had told a farmer a century ago that he would not need labourers, and would be able to harvest and manage his farm using machines he would have laughed at you. If you had told factory bosses the same thing about sixty years ago, they would have been equally...
What The Trophy Kids Need Most From Their Place Of Work
Last month I wrote an article entitled ‘The Trophy Kids Have Arrived For Work’, which talked about some of the characteristics of Generation Y in the workplace. In that article I also gave some tips on how employers could manage Generation Y most effectively so as to...
The Missing Soul of Leadership: Our Story
"Instead of telling our valuable stories, we seek safety in abstractions, speaking to each other aboutour opinions, ideas, and beliefs rather than about our lives” wrote Parker Palmer. He went on to say that, “academic culture blesses this practice by insisting that...
The Factory in Your Garage: A review of 3d printing options and implications
A few weeks ago, I bought a 3d printer for use in my home. On the day I installed it, I recorded a video for our team's Signpost's YouTube channel (it's available here or at the bottom of this post). Since then, many people have asked me a lot of questions about it,...
Generation Y – Driving the need for Mobile Maturity
In a recent study by PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), titled "PwC's NextGen: A Global Generational Study", they highlighted a number of learnings that organisations can take from the study. Among a number of useful and interesting insights, one of the key learnin gs was...
Bitcoin has the power to disrupt the most powerful institutions
"It is clear that policymakers and those who advise them do not have a satisfactory conceptual framework for dealing with [this] disruptive impact" says Alec Ross the former senior adviser on innovation to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and; Jonathan Luff a former...
All that’s wrong with the media today: A ridiculous example
It sounds like something out of one of those cringeworthy, self-written high school plays. But in reality it is a genuine news report from a Fox affiliate TV station in the United States. And although it is a single anecdote, it does shine a spotlight on the mess that...