The reason businessmen speak of gurus is because they cannot spell the word "charlatan".Courtesy of The Witch Doctors by Micklethwait & Wooldridge. For those of you that want to make sure that somoeone actually said this, please note that I have intentionally left...
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The reason businessmen speak of gurus is because they cannot spell the word "charlatan".Courtesy of The Witch Doctors by Micklethwait & Wooldridge. For those of you that want to make sure that somoeone actually said this, please note that I have intentionally left...
IBM Puts Dollars Behind the Crowd
IBM CEO Samuel Palmisano has announced what he calls an Innovation Jam - an attempt to come up with new business and product ideas by leveraging the collective intelligence of IBM's 100,000-strong 'crowd'. According to Yahoo! Business, IBM has "used these online...
IBM Puts Dollars Behind the Crowd
IBM CEO Samuel Palmisano has announced what he calls an Innovation Jam - an attempt to come up with new business and product ideas by leveraging the collective intelligence of IBM's 100,000-strong 'crowd'. According to Yahoo! Business, IBM has "used these online...
Significance in the Connection Economy
When we speak about a sense of significance, this could be an implied point anyway, that significance needs not be found in the workplace only. Reading an article this morning on companies that promote and belief in social awareness, I realized that today's talent...
Traditional media using Citizens
They breaking story around the 1 people arrested in London this morning had me all over BBC's web site. What was interesting that i've not seen before was a bit at the end of the main article asking for people's experiences around delayed flights and even for...
The merits and demerits of being a black woman
The joke goes that the easiest person for a personnel agency to place in South Africa these days is a disabled, lesbian black woman with tertiary qualifications. Not a very good joke, I'll grant you, but indicative of the struggle to rectify the imbalances of the past...
Motorola – creating flexibility
Motorola, (in South Africa at least) has reportedly been experimenting with a shift to more work-life balance in their working hours and office inhabitation requirements. Apparently, non-traditional working hours are the norm, driven by a vision of seamless mobility...
Dean Jones sacked after ‘terrorist’ remark
Pardon me for a parochial comment (about cricket and about South Africa), but this caught my eye... Dean Jones, the former Australia Test batsman turned TV commentator, has been sacked by his employers, Ten Sports, after calling Hashim Amla a 'terrorist' on live...
Proof that the Boomers still rule the world
Just in case you still needed proof that Boomers are not just going to slip into retirement quietly, proof comes from the world of Hollywood. A flurry of movies is expected over the next few months - all of them remakes of classic Boomer TV shows. Right now on...
Proof that the Boomers still rule the world
Just in case you still needed proof that Boomers are not just going to slip into retirement quietly, proof comes from the world of Hollywood. A flurry of movies is expected over the next few months - all of them remakes of classic Boomer TV shows. Right now on...
A Delicious Fetish
Joshua Schachter once sent me an email. At the time, I had no idea who he was – his response had come from a request I’d sent to the del.icio.us ‘support team’. Del.icio.us is a social bookmarking site, I needed some help figuring out how to use...
Gamer stats – They’re not what you’d expect
A recent survey published by the Entertainment Software Association entitled "Essential Facts" deals with sales, demographic, and usage data within the gaming industry. The full report can be downloaded from 2005 Essential facts. Some of the numbers the report...
Gamer stats – They're not what you'd expect
A recent survey published by the Entertainment Software Association entitled "Essential Facts" deals with sales, demographic, and usage data within the gaming industry. The full report can be downloaded from 2005 Essential facts. Some of the numbers the report...
Talent attraction & retention metaphor
We know the lesson: if you ask your Talent to stay, they won't. So, the alternative is to create an invitation that "pulls" them towards your organisation in a manner akin to swarming. The metaphor, care of Cognitive Edge, of a swarm of bees is a valuable metaphor: if...
Can uranium enrichment be morally neutral?
NYTimes reports today that Australian Prime Minister John Howard has called for expansion of the country's capability to produce and export unranium ... for economic interests. At a time when urnaium enrichment in countries less ally-friendly to the US, this...
Its nice to be right (sometimes)
As consulting futurists and strategists, part of our job involves making predictions about trends that we see coming. We track societal trends, especially looking at technology, demographics, institutions and value shifts in the world. But, we also touch on politics,...
Crime Doesn’t Pay. Or Does It?
Let me begin by saying that I have never been a victim of violent crime in 25 years of living in South Africa. A Golf I once owned did get broken into overnight. My childhood home in Johannesburg was invaded and goods were stolen, once. My brother was held up at...
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