Leading Difference: Your Most Important Challenge of 2018
There is an inescapable and increasingly frenetic cacophony around the issue of diversity or ‘difference’. Issues around race, gender, age, sexuality, class and many other ‘categories’ dominate the news and media. The ‘issues’ are surfacing everywhere, from politics...
Tuesday Tip: Building Self-Awareness
"The problem is not what she does it's how she does it!" (Sigh) an annoyed colleague reflected to another as she complained about their new manager, Grace. Regretfully, Grace was within earshot and stood frozen as she tried to make sense of what she just heard."This...
Tuesday Tip – What tonsils have got to do with your success in the Future of Work
The backstory to this Tuesday Tip is that I’ve just spent too much of my time trying to get the pre-authorisation done for my son’s surgery this Friday. (It’s a minor surgery - the standard ‘tonsils removal’ so nothing too stressful but still something that I’d rather...
Tuesday Tip – What tonsils have got to do with your success in the Future of Work
The backstory to this Tuesday Tip is that I’ve just spent too much of my time trying to get the pre-authorisation done for my son’s surgery this Friday. (It’s a minor surgery - the standard ‘tonsils removal’ so nothing too stressful but still something that I’d rather...
Tuesday Tip: How to create a happier workplace
The Problem: My people are not staying, aren’t committed as they should be and don’t seem happy at work. What can I do to reverse these trends? The Solution: Give your people more freedom than you are comfortable with. If you are comfortable with the amount of...
Tuesday Tip: 6 Ways to Future Proof yourself from Robotic Replacement
Studies by Oxford University suggest robotics and automation will replace 47% of knowledge worker jobs over the next two decades. So if you are not planning on retiring in the next ten to twenty years, and let’s face it with average lifespan on the up and pension pots...
Tuesday Tip: Talent in a Multi-Generational Digital Workplace
When I travel and speak to clients about their people experiences the following phrases are often used to describe Millennials and the younger workforce. They are uncommitted, entitled, nose stuck to screens, disengaged, lack loyalty, money chasing job-hoppers. On the...
Why we need feminism at work
My oldest daughter turned 18 yesterday. I have two other teenage daughters and a wife. In fact, I am the only man in our household, and I love it. Mainly because I learn so much from being forced to see the world through the eyes of smart, brave and insightful women....
Leading Difference Differently
Understanding the journey of different ‘from’ to different ‘for’. In the past, similarity worked. This was how the world worked. Teams, even entire organizations, worked based on people who were like you. It was easy; it felt comfortable. You began with a foundation...
Tuesday Tips: Leading diversity
The Problem: Leading diversity (difference) is amongst the most complex and difficult of all challenges that leaders face. How can you lead difference in such a way that the benefits of diversity can flourish? The Solution: Difference takes many forms - personal,...
Tuesday Tip: Dealing with a sexist team
The Problem I think my team might be sexist …what can I do? You may have been made aware of the presence of a subtle (or maybe not so subtle) sexism within your team / organisation, and now need to find ways to address it. It is a sensitive and tricky area and you are...
The ‘Flying Housewife’: Sexism and five things men can do to ‘wise-up’
In the 1948 London Olympics Dutch athlete, Francina “Fanny” Blankers-Koen, a 30 year-old mother of two, won four gold medals and was the most successful athlete at those Games. She retired from athletics in 1955 after a stellular career that included multiple Dutch,...
Migrants, economic meltdown or boon?
Demographics is the quantifiable study of populations based on factors such as age, race, sex, economic status, level of education, income level and employment, among others. It is typically one of the slower moving forces of change but as we look to the near future,...
They had to know: The most important three words in your organisation
'Never Again' is the inscription inscribed in five languages at the Dachau Concentration Camp memorial site a short distance outside Munich. A visit to such a place is not easy yet is entirely necessary. This is a place where man's inhumanity and cruelty is laid bare....
Disruptive Demographics and the Future of the World Population Until 2060
Disruptive forces are growing in complexity, velocity and impact. One of the slower moving forces is demographics and this force is now a growing tsunami which will crash on the shores of both developed and developing economies. No region or country will be immune to...
How to destroy a legacy in five words
This is a man who has had an unparalleled sporting career, is revered in his country of birth, has given generously to friends and causes alike, has consistently been well-mannered, humble and a role model. Yet all of this is swept away by five careless words from...
Leading Difference: 7 Questions Leaders Need to Ask.
Anthropologist Kate Fox in her wonderful book, Watching the English: The Hidden Rules of English Behaviour, makes the following point: The principal effect of globalization, as far as I can tell, has been an increase in nationalism and tribalism, a proliferation of...
QUOTED: Move over, baby boomers and millennials – ‘founders’ will be shaping the future
In the UK's Independent newspaper, TomorrowToday's CEO, Graeme Codrington, contributed to an excellent article on the next generation of young people growing up right now, and how they'll be defined by - and will in turn, define - the world around them. Read the...
QUOTED: Move over, baby boomers and millennials – ‘founders’ will be shaping the future
In the UK's Independent newspaper, TomorrowToday's CEO, Graeme Codrington, contributed to an excellent article on the next generation of young people growing up right now, and how they'll be defined by - and will in turn, define - the world around them. Read the...
Where is Rey? Star Wars, Disney, Hasbro and women
Update on 8 January 2016: Hasbro has added this comment to their Facebook page today: "Hasbro Gaming People who have already purchased the Monopoly: Star Wars game can obtain the Rey token by contacting Hasbro Consumer Care when the updated game becomes available...