Heading in the right direction, fast: Some excellent South African wage data
The outstanding team at "South Africa: The Good News" recently highlighted some really encouraging wage data from the latest Adcorp Employment Index (released on 13 February 2012). Three important personal income trends have emerged in South Africa: After-inflation...
You Wonder How These Things Begin?
Where does one's socialisation start? Does it begin with one's parents or primary caregivers? Do you unconsciously observe their codes of behaviour and emulate that growing up, thinking that is normal? Does it get added to at school and then through life, influenced...
Men Are From LinkedIn and Women Are From Facebook and Twitter
Despite the fact that I would not call myself the ‘social media expert’ in TomorrowToday (I leave that esteemed title to my colleague Mike Saunders) what I am interested in is the differences (and similarities) between men and women in the business arena. One of the...
What Having A Social Conscience Can Do For Your Brand
In January 2012 Wimpy decided to try a completely new type of advertising. They launched what they called their 'Braille Burgers' public relations campaign. What the campaign did was set out to write, in seseme seeds on the top of a burger bun; in braille, that...
Generation Why And All Their Potential
Every generation thinks that the one that comes after them are somehow going to ruin the planet, the business or the 'system' by causing chaos, disrupting the way things 'have always been done' and generally making everybody 'who knows what's going' life on a lot of...
In the Land of the Blind, The FA is King: The Luis Suarez Case
Let me state my bias. In this case I have two that are relevant: Firstly, I am a Liverpool fan – something that I see as a bias, not a handicap as my Manchester United friends might claim! Secondly, I am against racism – in all its forms. However, the guilty verdict...
Today, a Day of Reconciliation
On the 16th December, South Africans have the day off work. As a nation we are very good at public holidays, having 12 in total every year. Unlike in some countries in the world, where only civil servants and banks get off, in South Africa, everybody gets to lie in or...
That Which We Need to Know About Life and Work We Can Learn From Sport
From the United Nations to Schools to Non-Government Organizations sport has been recognized as an extraordinary way for people to learn to become better people. Not only is sport a physical and mental activity, but it is an emotional one also. Think about the last...
Thoughts of a Mind-traveler
It is Thursday evening and I am tired. I have had a full-on week and it's not even finished yet. I am sitting at Durban airport waiting for my flight back to Johannesburg. My blogging day at TomorrowToday is a Friday. This means that every Friday at roughly 8am there...
The best way I know of to connect in a connection economy.
I spent from 8 in the morning until 6 in the evening every day last week wallowing and delighting in an incredibly inspiring workshop on coaching using the Enneagram. For those of you who are not yet familiar with the Enneagram, very briefly it can be described as a...
How Beer Can Offer Insights into Gender Difference
Saffron Baggallay is head of our South African TomorrowToday Training company. She has great insights into the new world of work, and has written this very interesting piece on women and the beer market. It reminded me of how important it is to have a feminine...
How Beer Can Offer Insights into Gender Difference
I read a few months ago I came across a YouTube advert from Carlsberg Copenhagen which portrays their latest beer offering to the market - especially the female market, a beer called 'Copenhagen'. With the number of women who drink beer on the rise (in fact roughly...
Global Leadership Principles from which to Lead: learning from the Asia Pacific Leadership Program
For the past 10 years I have had the privilege to be part of the teaching facility of the Asia Pacific Leadership Program (APLP) based at the East West Center in Hawaii. And yes, Hawaii is not too shabby a place to work! Given the destination, trying to summons some...
Why Gen Y isn’t buying from you
Last year, I was sent this extract from an article entitled: "Why Generation Y isn't buying your products". I think it was originally published in the "Retail Customer Experience" magazine. It is a reasonably good insights into how we need to be thinking if we want to...
A Person Who Listens to Horses Can Talk to People
In an age where we have to be able to talk to people; and all sorts of people, my feeling is that we can learn a lot from horses. Most people find them intimidating, because of their physical strength, but they could not be more wrong. 99% of horses, treated right,...
A note to Generation X: Learn How to Manage Up
The concept of "managing up" is well established in management and leadership theory. As someone who reports to a boss, you need to use many different techniques to get your boss's attention, and influence your boss to act, think and react in certain ways. This is a...
Why People Over 45 Need Mentoring
In a world that has seriously changed and is continuing to change at an exponential rate, lots of 'unthinkables' become normal everyday. One of the biggest shifts in social behaviour over the last 30 to 50 years has been this idea that you now earn respect, rather...
Tips to Improve Interaction Among the Generations
It seems that just about everyone is talking about generations and how to manage the mix of generations in the office these days. I was sent this interesting summary of generational values from the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Association Office of Diversity...
Leadership and Diversity: Naming Body Parts
I remember once reading that middle-age happens when you keep thinking that in a couple of weeks you’ll be back to normal. To be honest I am not sure that I am clear as to exactly what constitutes ‘normality’ – or at least if I once was, I no longer am. This applies...
What women want – The future of leadership
A few years ago, I reflected on an article in the February 2004 fast Company magazine about why women have not rushed into the top bosses positions. In the last few years, that reflection has not changed. Women still have a lot of work to do to influence the culture...