Today's insights are brought to you by my colleague and futurist, Keith Coats. Flying into Port Elizabeth (South Africa) recently I was reminded why it is I hold to the wisdom, ‘the bigger the plane the better’! As we were tossed around by the not-so clear- air...
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5 for Friday – 16th September 2022
This week's combination of resources and articles offers insights and practical resources to help you equip yourself with the skill required in these disruptive times, as well as for the Future of Work. The future of work is here, and this is what you need to know...
Throw Forward Thursday: The end of sex
More people - especially young people - around the world are choosing not to get married, not to have long-term relationships, not to have children, and to have less sex. No, it's not the time of free "drug, sex and rock 'n' roll" anymore. We are not predicting the...
The future of work is here, and this is what you need to know about it.
Whether it’s a southern hemisphere Spring, a northern Autumn, or a North American Fall, September always feels like a transitionary month. Change is in the air. That’s true in every office around the world this year too. Innovation, adaptability, and resilience are...
5 for Friday – 9th September 2022
This week's combination of resources and articles offers insights and practical resources to help you equip yourself with the skill required in these disruptive times, as well as for the Future of Work. The most innovative companies invite everyone to participate… ...
Throw Forward Thursday: The end of sand
We use sand for pretty much everything we can see around us - including the glass in the screen you're watching this on. And we are running out of sand. This is a bigger issue than you probably realise, and about as important as running out of water will be for our...
The most innovative companies invite everyone to participate.
Today’s insights are brought to you by my colleague, the Moonshot futurist, Dean van Leeuwen. Too many people think that innovators are Einstein-haired crazy thinkers who come up with genius ideas. While those people are certainly important to innovation, that’s not...
5 for Friday – 2nd September 2022
This week's combination of resources and articles offers insights and practical resources to help you equip yourself with the skill required in these disruptive times, as well as for the Future of Work. Build a Culture of Experimentation for Yourself and Your Team....
Throw Forward Thursday: The end of Hotel Room Service (and a few things your company offers…)
Now that we can get food delivered to us from any restaurant to anywhere, we don't have to rely on the room service offered to us by the hotel we're staying in. OK... this isn't really a "future prediction" as it is a potential reality already. This week's "lesson...
5 for Friday – 26th August 2022
This week's combination of resources and articles offers insights and practical resources to help you equip yourself with the skill required in these disruptive times, as well as for the Future of Work. [Free Webinar] How to prepare young people to be future-fit with...
Throw Forward Thursday: The end of Antibiotics
Antibiotics changed our world 100 years ago, probably adding about 20 years to average lifespans as we dealt with infections and disease. But bacteria are continuing to adapt and are fast outpacing our antibiotics. It is very likely that by 2050 our current...
Just Imagine
Today's resources are brought to you by my colleague, and future of work expert, Graeme Codrington. Unprecedented, unimaginable, unbelievable… these are words we’ve all heard (and probably used) a lot over the past few years. From Covid to climate change, politics to...
5 for Friday – 19th August 2022
This week's combination of resources and articles offers insights and practical resources to help you equip yourself with the skill required in these disruptive times, as well as for the Future of Work. Seth Godin tells a great story of an important issue: in order to...
Throw Forward Thursday: The end of rush hour traffic
Why do we still have rush hour traffic - with EVERYONE trying to get to work and school at the SAME TIME every working day? It's 2022 and we know about flexible working, public transport, and even the potential for AI-managed traffic systems (via traffic apps or...
Listening: Beyond the words?
Mark Twain once said that “Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you would rather have talked”. For some talking is more difficult than listening; for most, it is the other way round. Good leaders listen. It is an awareness and skill that can...
5 for Friday – 12 August 2022
This week's combination of resources and articles offers insights and practical resources to help you equip yourself with the skill required in these disruptive times, as well as for the Future of Work. How a sense of belonging contributes to your employee’s...
Throw Forward Thursday: The end of retirement (as we know it)
One of the dumbest things we do in business is force people to retire, simply because they hit a specific date in the calendar, even though they might be excellent contributors and still want to continue working. As individuals, most of us already know we can't afford...
How a sense of belonging contributes to your employee’s well-being.
For leaders around the world, the effects of the ‘Great Resignation’ continue to be felt, as employees use this period to either level up or down with new employment opportunities.Most people devote at least a third of their lives working, whether for an organization...
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