Do we Twitter because we’re human, and are we human because we Twitter?
Last year I read 'Born to Run'. If you're a runner, or would like to be, and haven't read it, then do yourself a favour, it's a goodie. At the end of the book the author suggests that Homo Sapiens made it to where we have because we're runners. And then drops this...
Do we Twitter because we're human, and are we human because we Twitter?
Last year I read 'Born to Run'. If you're a runner, or would like to be, and haven't read it, then do yourself a favour, it's a goodie. At the end of the book the author suggests that Homo Sapiens made it to where we have because we're runners. And then drops this...
Men your time is up!
I came across a very interesting and well written article in The Atlantic which examines the world in which women have now emerged as the majority workforce for the first time in US history. This is an incredible milestone and here are a few of the facts driving this...
The most important development opportunity of the next two decades
One of my personal passions is trying to work out how to help developing countries, especially in my home continent of Africa, can help their people out of debilitating poverty. I believe it is possible. It is certainly desirable at all sorts of levels. One of the...
Quotes from the digital edge
I have been doing some work preparing for a workshop session with an advertising agency. They want me to help them think through the implications of social media for their agency. We're using our framework, "Beyond the Hype" as a starting point. While doing some...
Are Most Big Corporates Really Psychopaths?
RANT ALERT. Most times I try to be a dispassionate researcher of the new world of work. But sometimes I just can't take it anymore. Today is one of those days... Almost every day I pick up a story on the Net of someone being fired by their company for some...
The Talent Exodus looms large
We've been talking almost since the recession began about a talent exodus. Our view has been that as soon as the economy begins recovering and companies start hiring again, there is going to be a tidal wave of staff movement. We're calling it a talent exodus. It...
Visualisation: An ageing world
I really enjoy clever visualisations of data (see previous blog entries on this here). So, this is the shortest of blog entries to alert you to one I just discovered. Brought to us by GE, it's a visualisation of how various countries will age over the next few...
Nine key workforce trends for the next decade
Download a copy of this article in PDF format - right click here. The contents of this article can be presented as a keynote or a workshop for your team. Contact our UK or South African offices to find out how. My company, TomorrowToday, researches the new world of...
Simba’s inclusive social media taste strategy – clever
Social media is a very new platform to play on, no matter what country you find yourself in. Certainly some have played harder, risked more and invested more money, but I'm not certain there are very many who can claim to have 'got it right'? From my vantage point it...
Simba's inclusive social media taste strategy – clever
Social media is a very new platform to play on, no matter what country you find yourself in. Certainly some have played harder, risked more and invested more money, but I'm not certain there are very many who can claim to have 'got it right'? From my vantage point it...
Managing chaos
We all need to learn how to manage chaos these days. We live in turbulent times of disruptive change, and it's not going to get any easier over the next few years. The first step in managing chaos is to look for the patterns that provide a clue about the "organising...
Ebooks outsell hardbooks on Amazon – another marker of signficant change
For the first time in history (I seem to using that phrase a lot at the moment), ebooks now outsell hardcover books on Amazon (read the report here). You can also listen to an excellent speech by Seth Godin to a publisher, in which he talks about the glorious past and...
Can your company deal with your self-promotion
A while back I wrote an article about Tweeting yourself out of a job. The point I was making was simply that business is going to have to get it's head around the growing trend of self-promotion amongst their employees. Social Media has made this both easy to do and...
Markers of change in US Labor Statistics – 2010 is turning out to be quite historic
I think we might look back on 2010 as quite an important watershed year in the world of work. Since mid 2009, our team at TomorrowToday has been saying that the global financial downturn has been more than a financial crisis. We believe that as we emerge out of...
BP might fix their well, but big industry is still broken
As I write this, BP have capped their gushing oil well in the Gulf of Mexico (although they still need to complete tests on the cap - read the news here). At last! But the crisis is, of course, nowhere near over. A longer term fix for the well is needed, and the...
Cheaper desalination – water for the world
I wrote recently about potential water wars. One reader got into conversation with me, and questioned my assertion that desalination was expensive and therefore not yet a viable solution to the world's water scarcity problem. Well, I did a bit of digging and found an...
Women and the New World of Work
As it's my very first post (ever, anywhere!), I thought it would be apt to come at it from a woman's angle. I have read two articles recently, both in the Times (and thus you need to pay for them - but I attach the links at the bottom of this post anyway. The first...
I’d like to Flattr you by paying for your content
Last week I posted an article around the much needed innovation and creative thinking in the pay-for-content space. One of the new additions in this space that I profiled was Flattr. Care of Wikipedia: Flattr is a project started by Peter Sunde and Linus Olsson. Users...
I'd like to Flattr you by paying for your content
Last week I posted an article around the much needed innovation and creative thinking in the pay-for-content space. One of the new additions in this space that I profiled was Flattr. Care of Wikipedia: Flattr is a project started by Peter Sunde and Linus Olsson. Users...