Podcast: The Customer Experience Show – Secrets of Successful Multi-Generational Work Cultures
Dean and myself were interviewed by Michelle Romanica on the Customer Experience Show on Blogtalk Radio. It was a great show, with some fascinating insights into multi-generational workplaces. The blurb of the show says: In their work, Graeme Codrington and Dean van...
Podcast: The Customer Experience Show – Secrets of Successful Multi-Generational Work Cultures
Dean and myself were interviewed by Michelle Romanica on the Customer Experience Show on Blogtalk Radio. It was a great show, with some fascinating insights into multi-generational workplaces. The blurb of the show says: In their work, Graeme Codrington and Dean van...
Video: Fujitsu’s 21st Century Leadership series
Recently, I spoke at an evening function hosted by Fujitsu in London. The theme was: "Who's in charge? Leadership in the 21st century workplace". Liv Garfield, CEO of BT Openreach, and myself shared the platform and a panel discussion, and were then interviewed by the...
Let’s Change Our Perspective
Andy Braner, who is the CEO of KIVU, recently wrote a really insightful blog post entitled 'Tweet, Text or Talk', which I really enjoyed. He is talking about the effect social media is having on Generation Y in particular (but all generations). What he articulates...
Let's Change Our Perspective
Andy Braner, who is the CEO of KIVU, recently wrote a really insightful blog post entitled 'Tweet, Text or Talk', which I really enjoyed. He is talking about the effect social media is having on Generation Y in particular (but all generations). What he articulates...
Bringing soul back to the music industry
The last time the global music industry showed growth was 1999, when Britney Spears released Hit Me Baby One More Time and the likes of Manic Street Preachers and Belle & Sebastian won Brit awards. That year revenues peaked at $28.6bn; says James Waterson of City...
Having FUN, the greatest force of disruption
How many people do you know, were caught out by April fool jokes this year? Seth Godin played one of the best practical jokes when he blogged that Amazon was launching Kindle Zero a free tablet for all Prime members. Google pranksters were also out in full force with...
Where to find success now
Seth Godin is one of our favourite thinkers and writers. We share many of his worldviews, especially that we are living in a period of transition from the end of the industrial age to the emergence of a connection economy. In one of his most insightful blog entries,...
Where to find success now
Seth Godin is one of our favourite thinkers and writers. We share many of his worldviews, especially that we are living in a period of transition from the end of the industrial age to the emergence of a connection economy. In one of his most insightful blog entries,...
What Horses Can Teach You About Relationships?
Being good Friday, I wanted to write about Easter. I pondered over how Easter fitted into the world of work and what analogies, parallels or connotations I could draw so as so make this Blog didactic. So I Googled things like 'the history of Easter' and 'the origin of...
Twitter username changed: @FuturistGraeme
Graeme Codrington used to Tweet at @workforcetrends. He has now changed his Twitter username to @FuturistGraeme. If you already follow him, there is no need to do anything - the change has already been made automatically. But please do update your records.
Africa: the last frontier of growth and development
As the BRICS summit is currently underway in Durban, where the leading emerging market players of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (representing sub-Saharan Africa) discuss their strategic agenda for the next five years, it might be a good time to refresh...
Twitter username changed: @FuturistGraeme
Graeme Codrington used to Tweet at @workforcetrends. He has now changed his Twitter username to @FuturistGraeme. If you already follow him, there is no need to do anything - the change has already been made automatically. But please do update your records.
Africa: the last frontier of growth and development
As the BRICS summit is currently underway in Durban, where the leading emerging market players of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (representing sub-Saharan Africa) discuss their strategic agenda for the next five years, it might be a good time to refresh...
Life and Perspective: A Letter to Rebecca
This was a letter penned some seven years ago on the arrival of a very special little girl to a very special family – that of my colleague and friend, Graeme. I ‘publish’ it with their permission as I think it can serve as an important reminder to us all about life,...
I want you in my office. Now. What’s really going on at Yahoo?
The biggest tech news so far this year has been an announcement by Yahoo that they want "all hands on deck" and that all work-from-home is being cancelled as from June. Irked Yahoo employees have leaked the memo that was sent by HR head Jackie Reses. Apparently the...
A round up of predictions of future forces shaping our world
There are two types of future predictions: one looks to try and predict specific events and technologies, the other attempts to look beyond specifics at the causes of change and the forces that will shape the future. In a sense, the first looks for the milestones...
A round up of predictions of future forces shaping our world
There are two types of future predictions: one looks to try and predict specific events and technologies, the other attempts to look beyond specifics at the causes of change and the forces that will shape the future. In a sense, the first looks for the milestones...
A Leadership lesson from Australian cricket: Do your homework
There have been all sorts of comments around the debacle that is Australian cricket at present. In short we are talking about a cricket nation, for so long accustomed to looking down on all others playing the game, now firmly entrenched at number XXX in the test...
The power behind disruptive business models
It's not technologies that disrupt, rather it is the business model that the technology enables that creates the disruptive impact. Digital music had been around as a technology before Steve Jobs and Apple leveraged it to create a new business model that completely...