Trends to watch in 2013
It's that time of year when we take stock of what has happened in the year that has flashed by, and look ahead to the year that's rushing towards us. What will it be like? Our team has some ideas based on our work looking at disruptive change and trends. The...
Trends to watch in 2013
It's that time of year when we take stock of what has happened in the year that has flashed by, and look ahead to the year that's rushing towards us. What will it be like? Our team has some ideas based on our work looking at disruptive change and trends. The...
The Best Contribution You Can Make: If Not You, Then Who?
As I write this article, it’s the Christmas season, but it doesn’t feel very jolly. We live in a world filled with uncertainties, and 2013 is vague and potentially scary for many of us. Can the US stop itself falling over a fiscal cliff? Can the Middle East calm...
Trends to watch in 2013
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TEDx: The Third Wave of the Digital Age
My TEDx talk has finally been uploaded to the TEDx YouTube channel, and is now available to view. I delivered this at TEDx Square Mile in London in October this year. The topic was an introduction to an issue I think is absolutely essential for us to understand right...
TEDx: The Third Wave of the Digital Age
My TEDx talk has finally been uploaded to the TEDx YouTube channel, and is now available to view. I delivered this at TEDx Square Mile in London in October this year. The topic was an introduction to an issue I think is absolutely essential for us to understand right...
VIDEO: A free agent nation – disruptive employment
The world is being completely reshaped by five key disruptive forces: technology, institutional change, demographics, environmental and ethic issues, and shifting social values. This video investigates how one company has created a vision of how this might change the...
Microsoft needs reinvention not improvement – and so do you
This past year saw Microsoft post it's first ever quarterly loss. This was to do with a $6 billion write down of an investment, and wasn't really a trading loss. But nevertheless it rang some alarm bells. In the digital world, huge companies can come crashing down...
The Kids Aren't Playing Around Anymore
For a few years now, our researchers at TomorrowToday have been predicting what Generation Y might do when they grow up. This generation was first dubbed "The Millennials" by Neil Howe and William Strauss (see this book, for example), and were defined as the...
The Kids Aren’t Playing Around Anymore
For a few years now, our researchers at TomorrowToday have been predicting what Generation Y might do when they grow up. This generation was first dubbed "The Millennials" by Neil Howe and William Strauss (see this book, for example), and were defined as the...
The Kids Aren’t Playing Around Anymore
For a few years now, our researchers at TomorrowToday have been predicting what Generation Y might do when they grow up. This generation was first dubbed "The Millennials" by Neil Howe and William Strauss (see this book, for example), and were defined as the...
VIDEO: Three new leadership skills
In this video, we outline a new 'ABC' of leadership: Adaptive Intelligence, a Balcony perspective and Conversations. These are three skills most leaders don't have these days - and three skills they'd do well to cultivate. For more on each of these, explore...
Video: Digital natives of 1989 entering the world of work
One of the biggest causes of disruptive change in the world right now is the combination of a radical increase in computing power and the arrival of the digital natives in the workplace. This video of Graeme Codrington was recorded by our good friends at Your...
Video: Digital natives of 1989 entering the world of work
One of the biggest causes of disruptive change in the world right now is the combination of a radical increase in computing power and the arrival of the digital natives in the workplace. This video of Graeme Codrington was recorded by our good friends at Your...
Video: Big data, infographics and the role of IT in a new world of work
I spoke at a conference for the German company, Haniel earlier this year. The audience was largely German and engineers, so I toned down my normal style (a bit of energy, a bit of humour) to suit them, but the content extends to almost any industry and every function...
The Third Wave of the Digital Age
Last Saturday, I spoke at a TEDx conference in London. The talk I initially scripted would have taken longer than half an hour - not quite TED style! The talk I planned to give would actually have taken about 19 minutes - and the fairly detailed script is reproduced...
The Third Wave of the Digital Age
Last Saturday, I spoke at a TEDx conference in London. The talk I initially scripted would have taken longer than half an hour - not quite TED style! The talk I planned to give would actually have taken about 19 minutes - and the fairly detailed script is reproduced...
Why I Tweet
Yesterday marked my 10,000th tweet sent (bizarrely it was a tweet commenting on the fact that Penguin have finally joined the digital age and published my books on Kindle - 10,000 tweets, 4 years of asking, but now finally done!). I have been a member of Twitter since...
The Elevator is Out of Order
I loved Seth Godin’s post this morning, it was the validation I have craved for quite some time. Ever since I started my own practice I have been asked “what is your elevator pitch?” to which I respond “I don’t really have one”. And despite all of the pressure I...
Leadership Self-Awareness
I have yet to meet a leader that can effectively solve problems or conflict by way of assertion. In fact, assertion as a means to resolution is highly toxic to your organizational culture. Assertion is like holding a beach ball under water, holding it steady is...