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A few weeks ago, my wife and I went to the movies (not as easy as it sounds with three pre-school children at home). We saw "The Island" - a fairly good futuristic thriller about cloning (although it bugs me that future visions of disaster always outdo future visions...
I was at my daughetr's school this morning to watch a small play on the Creation (armed with torch and yellow T-shirt, she was part of Day One - when light was created). One of her classmates was wearing a black T-shirt (night), but what got me was the logo on it:...
After a long flight home I was waiting for my luggage at Jhb International airport when to my surprise an announcement was made informing me on the progress that was being made in getting my luggage from the plane to me. That's nice I thought and then was even more...
I haven't read this book, but the write ups look good. Its Managing Talented People, by Alan Robertson & Graham Abbey (Pearson, 2003) (Get it at Amazon.com or Kalahari.net). Check out the great list of questions inspired by the book at:...
I found this post ( http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/050914/lawfns2.html?.v=1) on Volvo presenting it’s first ever car designed by women. My first thought was ‘At last! Someone’s done it’, but as I read through the article I couldn’t shake a nagging thought. We...
I have a dream that in my lifetime, I would see the revolution of the services company as we currently know it. I have a dream that one day our companies will shrug off the inertia of the past, and the single-minded self-enrichment focus of the present. I have a dream...
Can the current licensing structures around software, etc actually make it impossible to improve your lot in life without risking HUGE fines? The following is an extract from a post on The GripeLine by Ed Foster. "A few decades ago, a man could still 'pull himself up...
Check out this website for the International Network for Social Network Analysis
I think BlogMaps - where blogs meet maps - are fantastic tools (thanks to FeedMap.net for the free service). Using BlogMap you can geo-code your blog using ordinary geographical coordinates, browse already geo-coded blogs and search for blogs. It is a great way to...
Every now & then a book comes out that corroborates certain facets of the TomorrowToday.biz message. Daniel H. Pink a former White House speech writer has recently released a book that he spent several years researching. The books deals with what he calls the...
Within the space of 24 hours, my relationship with airlines underwent another rollercoaster ride. Loves to travel, hates to fly ... is fast becoming my new mantra. It all started when we tried to change the dates of my husband’s British Airways ticket from London to...
Back at Vodaworld's website this morning in the hope of discovering that upgrading my wife's mobile phone may lead to the free acquisition of a PSP or iPod nano or something, I was horrified to discover that Vodacom's newest strategic partner is none other than Madame...
Every now & then an internal conversation happens in TomorrowToday that reflects some of the difficulty of moving away from the traditional business structure into a virtual & connection economy one. A recent conversation that did the rounds concerned whether we...
An article in the Futurist magazine addresses an new way of developing / running enterprises that uses the best of the outsourcing trend, the connection economy, and connection technologies. The article 'blurb' says: "Information Technologies are toppling traditional...
The mileage our monolithic proprietary friend has gained out of its new human persona, attributable to the 2,000 or so registered Microsoft employee blogs, not to mention the now-famous Robert Scoble (of Scobleizer), is suddenly being tainted by a self-proclaimed...
BizCommunity today had an interesting report under the heading, "Internal branding values ignored". "A UK marketing study by Price Waterhouse Coopers shows that less than a third of senior managers believe their companies' external values are matched by its internal...
I was working through some email articles, and found the following piece from AAP, June 8 2004. Teens' friends their new families By Gosia Kaszubska AND you thought the teenager texting madly on your train home was just bored.Seems those twitching thumbs are the...
“The ‘surplus society’ has a surplus of similar companies, employing similar people, with similar educational backgrounds, coming up with similar ideas, producing similar things, with similar prices and similar quality.” Kjell Nordström...
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