President X – a one year review
Author, Tammy Erickson, does a nice job in a Harvard Business Review post taking a look at President Obama through the filter of Generation X. President Obama is arguably the United States' first President who is a member of Generation X. (I say "arguably" since the...
I don't trust you
I don't trust you! Well it's not exactly that, it's just that I trust you less, if the Edelman TrustBarometer is accurate in it's 2010 report. As The Next Web summarises: Mainly that the trust in global business has risen across the board. Something surprising was...
I don’t trust you
I don't trust you! Well it's not exactly that, it's just that I trust you less, if the Edelman TrustBarometer is accurate in it's 2010 report. As The Next Web summarises: Mainly that the trust in global business has risen across the board. Something surprising was...
Tesco launches world's first zero-carbon emission store
Tesco sometimes takes a few knocks in the press. Most recently for not allowing people wearing pyjamas into their stores and another for asking a father, for safety reasons, to leave a store because he was balancing his six-year old child on his shoulder. Frankly I...
Tesco launches world’s first zero-carbon emission store
Tesco sometimes takes a few knocks in the press. Most recently for not allowing people wearing pyjamas into their stores and another for asking a father, for safety reasons, to leave a store because he was balancing his six-year old child on his shoulder. Frankly I...
Just because you can, doesn't mean you should
My colleague in the UK, Graeme Codrington, posted "3-d TV is here" a week or so back. It's a short post about Sky News launching 3D TV. When Graeme writes he's normally very definite in his opinion, and he's not scared to put it out there. If you read his 3D TV post,...
Just because you can, doesn’t mean you should
My colleague in the UK, Graeme Codrington, posted "3-d TV is here" a week or so back. It's a short post about Sky News launching 3D TV. When Graeme writes he's normally very definite in his opinion, and he's not scared to put it out there. If you read his 3D TV post,...
Will the next generation live to be 1000 years old?
Anthony Atala asks, "Can we grow organs instead of transplanting them?" His lab at the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine is doing just that -- engineering tissues and whole organs (bladders and, soon, kidneys) using smart bio-materials and cutting-edge...
CEOs lose faith in strategic planning, they should look to yacht racing for answers
The Great Recession has made CEOs rethink strategic planning. Walt Shill, head of the North American management consulting practice for Accenture believes that: "Strategy, as we knew it, is dead...Corporate clients decided that increased flexibility and accelerated...
Rethinking Marketing and the age of consumer capitalism
In this months Harvard Business Review, Roger Martin writes that "modern capitalism can be broken down into two major eras. The first, managerial capitalism, began in 1932 and was defined by the then radical notion that firms ought to have professional management. The...
3-d TV is here
This weekend, Sky TV in the UK will become the first to broadcast a live sports event in 3-d. This is a preview of regular channel that will be launched by Sky in April. It will be available at no extra cost to anyone with an HD box. Read the press release here. The...
How to keep your staff as the recovery begins
The UK is officially out of recession, as are most countries around the world. You couldn't call it "bouyant" yet, but the recovery has started. Over the next few months and years, it will gain momentum. One of the unintended consequences of the recovery will be that...
America must act now to set up the next 50 years of economic growth
I first saw Elizabeth Warren about 6 months ago on Jon Stewart's The Daily Show. She is the chair of the Congressional Oversight Panel created to monitor TARP (The Troubled Asset Relief Program - central to America's bailout). In the few minutes she had on the show,...
A banking revolution?
Accenture recently put out a report entitled, "Banking 2012: Preparing for a revolution". How I'd love to believe they are right. The executive summary says that the banks that will succeed are those that focus on transparency, simplicity and renewed...
Are you working for a TALENTED COMPANY, or do you know of examples?
I’m on a quest to find companies that are extraordinary, companies that not only achieve good financial results but also contribute positively to society as a whole. I’m intrigued at how many companies have fallen down in the past few years because a number of very...
A Conversation around Google and China
I began a brief e-mail conversation recently with my colleague in the UK, Graeme Codrington, around the China v Google story. Or Google v China, depending on who you side with : ) I thought I'd take it online with Graeme, in case there are other voices that would like...
Get used to the cold and blame global warming
This is just a short comment on something I can't believe I keep hearing in the media. Well, to be honest, I only hear it from those that hold ludicrous beliefs to start with. But I have heard a few times in the last week that "so much for global warming", or "they...
Five upcoming changes in the way we work
Tammy Erickson, Harvard Business Review contributor and author of multiple books, including Retire Retirement and Workforce Crisis, has written about the five key changes she is expecting in the workplace in 2010. What do you think? Do you agree with her? Two-job norm...
A looming retirement crisis for Boomers (with lots of opportunities)
We have argued many times on this blog that the Baby Boomers are going to redefine retirement (for example, here, here and here). In fact, we even thought we were very clever using the phrase "retyrement" to describe what we think will actually happen. We've had a...
It's 2010 – where are the flying cars? (OR how you predict the future)
Here we are. It's 2010. In 1968, Stanley Kubrick brought us "2001: A Space Odyssey". In 1984 (yes, Orwell would have been proud), Arthur C Clarke's "2010" made it to the cinemas. Throughout the 1980s and 90s, "near future" movies tended to be set sometime in 2001 or...