The Fergie Factor: A Disruptive Force
After 26 years in charge of Manchester United Alex Ferguson has finally decided to take life a little easier by moving to a new role as a Director and Ambassador for the club. At 71 years of age he wants to move on, he is not as healthy as he used to be and is...
Why Sir Alex Ferguson Was Such A Successful Manager
Whether or not you are a Manchester United fan, it would be difficult to argue with the fact that as a business this football club has been massively successful, to say nothing of their success as a sports team. In light of Sir Alex's recent announcement of...
Generation Jobless: A warning to us all
The April 27th Economist ran a cover story about the ‘generation jobless’ – the global rise of youth unemployment. It is a serious concern for a number of reasons and one that could have long-lasting implications for both the global economy and political stability....
So what does a Digital Business Consultant actually do?
I am often asked what I do? Partly because some people don't understand the digital world they way I do and partly because I tend to get involved in many different aspects of the digital community. So I thought it would be worthwhile explaining what I do at...
Where have all the jobs gone?
It seems hard to believe that it was a year ago that Britain was excited, but nervous about hosting the Olympic games of 2012. There were many voices of doom that predicted the games would be a disaster and we would embarrass ourselves as a nation. The doom-mongers...
Generation Jobless: A warning to us all
The April 27th Economist ran a cover story about the ‘generation jobless’ – the global rise of youth unemployment. It is a serious concern for a number of reasons and one that could have long-lasting implications for both the global economy and political stability....
Building innovative companies using the powerful disruptive force of the Connected Generation (Part 1)
Competitive dynamics are shifting and the rules for success and failure are being rewritten across almost every industry and every business function. Exciting new innovative business models are emerging every day and you don’t have to be a fresh upstart to be a...
Blogging the ‘Not So Smart’ Way by Jeff Bullas
I was really looking forward to reading Jeff Bullas’s ‘Blogging the Smart Way’ that I had downloaded. I was sure that there would be some worthwhile insights and some fresh lessons to be learnt. He did a pretty convincing job of setting up why reading this book was...
Intel’s Top 5 Tech Trends
I am sitting at a conference in Dubai, listening to one of Intel's top guys in the Middle East talking about technology disruptors that Intel expects to see in the next few years. He is listing five "technology-led tectonic shifts": Big data becomes useful (my...
Intel's Top 5 Tech Trends
I am sitting at a conference in Dubai, listening to one of Intel's top guys in the Middle East talking about technology disruptors that Intel expects to see in the next few years. He is listing five "technology-led tectonic shifts": Big data becomes useful (my...
Intel’s Top 5 Tech Trends
I am sitting at a conference in Dubai, listening to one of Intel's top guys in the Middle East talking about technology disruptors that Intel expects to see in the next few years. He is listing five "technology-led tectonic shifts": Big data becomes useful (my...
Toxic Leadership: Recognising the signs
Toxic leadership always ends badly but it doesn’t start that way. Toxic leadership (as is the case with any from of leadership) requires followership and to assume that at the outset the followership knew what they were in for is incorrect. Toxic leadership goes bad...
Toxic Leadership: Recognising the signs.
Toxic leadership always ends badly but it doesn’t start that way. Toxic leadership (as is the case with any from of leadership) requires followership and to assume that at the outset the followership knew what they were in for is incorrect. Toxic leadership goes bad...
10 Leadership Lessons for building a Quest from Jeff Weiner, CEO of LinkedIn
Jeff Weiner, CEO of LinkedIn is on a quest to create economic opportunity for the 3.3 billion people in the global workplace by matching skills with job opportunities. This is a bold and audacious quest and quests are a key element of successful leadership in the new...
Lean Back – 6 Post Macho Management principles
Several years ago the nature of management’s future was driven home to me in a flash, as I shared the stage with my co-author and business partner Dr. Martha Rogers. It was the heyday of the dot-com boom, and we had just done an hour-long joint presentation for an...
What Happens When The Plan Cannot Be Implemented?
Retail is a cut-throat, competitive and unpredictable environment, but it really isn't any different to all business because generally the rules for success are changing in all industries and markets around the world. I am just using retail as an example of how...
One Day Without Shoes
Tuesday 16 April is the TOMS 'one day without shoes'. TOMS, founded in 2006 by Blake Mycoskie in Santa Monica, California is a shoe company with a difference. The company designs and sells shoes based on the Argentine ‘alpargata’ design that Mycoskie first encountered...
The Passing of an Icon
Whether you liked, loathed or are somewhere in the middle it cannot be denied that Baroness Margaret Thatcher will be known as a major figure in British history. The Britain that she took control over in 1979 was very different to the Britain that she left in 1990....
Why current leadership development programmes are bound to fail
Leadership development programmes have become big business. Business Schools all around the globe serve as the default setting as to where to go when you want such a programme. However, There are early signs that this might not always be the case into the future. The...
TomorrowToday Photo A Day
We've had a month of many of our team, plus some fun and friendly external contributors, joining in on our TomorrowToday Photo A Day project, and I thought I'd share some of the photos from the past month with you, just in case you aren't following #TmTdPhoto on...