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Last night, Dr Graeme Codrington was on Carte Blanche (a South African investigative TV show), talking about Great Companies to Work For. A lot of the information came from TomorrowToday's presentations on Talent, especially "Bright Young Things". It was also great to...
Straight from BoingBoing...Humans could have a permanent base on the moon in 20 years and a colony on Mars in the next 40 years, the British scientist told a news conference."We won't find anywhere as nice as Earth unless we go to another star system," added...
Straight from BoingBoing...Humans could have a permanent base on the moon in 20 years and a colony on Mars in the next 40 years, the British scientist told a news conference."We won't find anywhere as nice as Earth unless we go to another star system," added...
One of the more difficult Connection Economy concepts for people to get their heads around is the concept that Edward de Bono dubbed, "co-opetition". This is defined as the ability of competitors to co-operate. Watching the longest Tour de France stage yesterday (230...
I found this article on India's Generation Y (born after 1979). It's very interesting because although it focuses on corporate India, it is relevant to all organisations all over the world: Young to turn critical for India, Inc. The Economic Times 06 July 2006 K...
At least some of their developers do.... An absolute classic. I was trying to download Microsoft Media Player 10 (to reinstall it, because ONCE AGAIN, MS Windows and MS Media Management and MS PowerPoint are not all talking to each other when it comes to...
This is fairly basic stuff, but may be helpful as we think through how to attract and retain talented young people into our businesses. For a detailed definition, look at Wikipedia. The term "knowledge worker" was coined by Peter Drucker in 1959 to describe someone...
Now that the hoopla of the World Cup is over, I can express something I know a lot of people have felt (see here for example). This World Cup set a record for cautions with 345 yellow cards, a 27 per cent jump from 2002, and an astounding 28 red cards. And the lasting...
Co-opetition: This was a word invented by Edward de Bono, that described co-operation between competitors. This is a feature of the Connected World. A small story caught my eye this past week. Recently, two employees of Coca-Cola (at head office in the USA) were...
How lame is that title? You come up with a better one... Exciting news in my inbox yesterday - Jonathan Cherry of Cherryflava.com and more recently, the Cherryflava Media Company, has secured a deal with BMW to support the launch of the new Z4 Coupe with a blogging...
More often than not the accussation of "telling tales" reminds us of our childhood when our parents would admonish us for being naughty and use this phrase in a far-from-covert ploy to get us to tell the truth. Well, JetBlue is now actually encourgaing the telling of...
Business 2.0 recently released its list of 50 People Who Matter NOW, and 10 People Who Don't just to compliment it. No huge surprises on the Top 50 Who Matter list, if you understand that the role of the consumer has changed dramatically in the last few years. You...
Diversity interventions in the workplace – is it relevant? Yes, it’s so hot right now. What is diversity? No need for it - South Africans understand diversity.
Evidence of the "connection economy" is growing all the time. One of the key characteristics of this new era is the decreasing importance of tradition boundaries, and the increasingly significant role of connections. In particular, geographic barriers are being swept...
A few years ago, the super clever leaders of Dubai realised that oil was not going to last forever. Maybe only 20 years (some scaremongers think this is so), maybe 100 years, or maybe even more than that. But whatever the number, it wasn't forever. So, what does a...
I found this in my archives. A great book, and important info for any business. The Discipline of Market Leaders: Choose Your Customers Narrow Your Focus, Dominate Your Market by Michael Treacy and Fred WiersemaAddison-Wesley, Reading, Massachusetts, 1997 edition Buy...
Just when you thought there could be no new trends, the high society (high being the operative word here!) have found a new way of spending their extra cash.....by having dinner in the sky. No, its not dinner in a plane, its not dinner on a rooftop, it is dinner...
Just when you thought there could be no new trends, the high society (high being the operative word here!) have found a new way of spending their extra cash.....by having dinner in the sky. No, its not dinner in a plane, its not dinner on a rooftop, it is dinner...
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