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A number of things coalesced for me this evening - so I can't help myself- I should have been in bed twenty minutes ago. I got home a few hours ago, after a great presentation to about 250 parents at a school - my mind was buzzing, and as part of the relaxation...
You're a leader? Check. You want to connect internally and externally with your network? Check. You don't feel the traditional channels are working as well as they could? Check. You've heard of blogging, but it sounds scary/tough/like some school kid's play thing?...
Here is an interesting extract (with some random commentary by me) from an address by Dr Goran Carstedt (2002), a former senior executive at Volvo and IKEA (See original here). ORGANISATIONAL learning (OL) is the process of identification and correction of errors in...
If you're looking for trends, here's one you can't afford to ignore. 'remember ME' is the cry of todays younger generations (It is most often used by webpage designers as a checkbox when entering your details on their site - it means you don't have to enter them again...
Yesterday I flew down to Cape Town. I fly on a variety of airlines. It depends on time and price. These are my variables and I do all my own bookings online. The delight about yesterday's trip was the attitude and friendly manner of the team. We are all tired of the...
I met yesterday with a journalist doing a feature on talent management. Having spent over an hour talking about what TomorrowToday.biz does, I was unsatisfied with my answer to one of her questions. She asked, "How can you know if someone is talented or not?" My...
When will it stop? When will we stop inventing things that allow us to be in greater contact with more people so that we can do more, be more productive? I thought the whole purpose of inventing technology to do our work for us is that we'd have more leisure time? I...
Everyone thinks that it was a wonderful gift to Europe that America entered World War II. And, yes, it was. It was a much needed boost at a dim time for the Allies. Of course, the US had already been supplying the Allies with arms and materials for the duration of the...
So, South Africa's most valuable brand list has been published for 2005, and the top 5 are made up of 3 banks and 2 mobile phone network companies. (Click here for the article) Value is based on future earnings discounted back to a net present value. Here's the...
I was out at a meeting yesterday and one of my collegues remarked that I am SUCH a Baby Boomer due to the number of cards in my wallet. Is this a baby boomer tendancy or not? I think my 25 year old son has more credit cards than I will ever own? Most of the cards are...
An Outsider's Analysis of SAA and the Airline Industry On a recent flight on South African Airways (SAA), I browsed through their in flight magazine (Feb 2005). The new CEO, Khaya Ngqula, wrote a short one page article on the launch of a new internal initiative to...
No one said it was going to be easy. China is going to make and break many companies - internationally and internally. Following on from my entry a few days ago (Why you shouldn’t be too worried about India and China), here's a story from BusinessWeek on how not to...
Here's one for the books... Its always great to see Gen Xers doing well. In every country around the world, young people born in the 1970s and 80s are making their mark, most often in the IT and Telecomms industries. Countries with large populations moving towards...
My wife has just upgraded her cell phone. When faced with the choices, she was offered a staggering array of phones each with a plethora of functions. These phones can do everything: play videos or MP3s, take photos and videos, record voice files, keep your diary,...
The UK has just completed another general election. Not all of the results are in, but the initial estimate of how many people actually voted looks much the same as in every democracy around the world where voting is not compulsory. It's not unusual to see figures of...
The New Scientist of 18 December 2004 details the kula exchange of the Trobriand Islands, first documented in 1922 by Bronislaw Malinowski, a pioneer in social anthropology (read the whole story here). This exchange involves a series of islands passing a gift on in a...
Intelligence magazine (South Africa), April 2005, published extract from a report by the Gartner Group (2005) which highlighted forces which will enhance or hamper workforce performance, productivity and leadership. Here follows a brief extract (not available online,...
Intelligence magazine (South Africa), April 2005, published extract from a report by the Gartner Group (2005) which highlighted forces which will enhance or hamper workforce performance, productivity and leadership. Here follows a brief extract (not available online,...
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