Here are my five top reads of this past week. Each one this week is a classic. Take your time to go through these five - you won't regret it. A set of slides from a presentation: The Generationally Intelligent Leader Google's genius futurist has one theory that he...
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The Freelance Economy is growing
Mary Meeker is sometimes called the "Internet Whisperer". She and her team do research into the ways in which we're using the Net, and their annual research reports are packed full of information and insights. You can see her 196 slide report here. One of the most...
Leading in a Changing World available on Kindle
The much anticipated leadership book, co-authored by two global leadership experts and founding members of TomorrowToday, Keith Coats and Graeme Codrington is now available on Amazon. You can purchase the book here on either Amazon.co.uk or Amazon.com. Perhaps a bit...
The Top Jobs in 10 Years Might Not Be What You Expect – Our Input to FastCompany Future Forum
A few weeks ago, our team was asked to contribute to a Fast Company article on the future of work, part of a special future forum feature week. The final article is superb and well worth a read. Read it at Fast Company website with a number of additional text box and...
On Leadership and Learning
There is a lot of good leadership advice ‘out there’ and I have found that what tends to happen is the right insights find you rather than the other way around. In other words you may have come across some good leadership wisdom yet it remains ‘unseen’ because you are...
Effective Influence and Connection
Clients regularly ask for tips and tricks on how they can connect with, and influence, Digital Natives. The foundation of this need is that they see a demographic group who see the world so differently to them that they don’t know how to engage them effectively. My...
Top 5 Reads this week on The Future of Work (22 May 2015)
Here are the top 5 articles I read this past week on the forces shaping our world right now, and how we should respond to them: The four global forces breaking all the trends - McKinsey on: The world economy’s operating system is being rewritten. In this excerpt from...
An easy way for leaders to learn
It is said that a good or effective blog answers a relevant question. That being the case, here is a question every leader serious about being futurefit ought to be asking: How can I learn? Pause for a moment and think about leadership and learning. Many leaders are...
3 ways that Silicon Valley is showing the way to the New World of Work
One of the things that almost all of our clients agree on is the fact that the world is changing. They also agree that this change cannot be avoided, it needs to be engaged and embraced. They don't, however, always have a clear view as to what these changes may be....
The New Lemonade Stand – how to help your kids make piles of money (and what it means for your business and future)
For the last few months, I have spent many hours every week researching and writing a new book about the future of work and leadership (see advance information, including free download of chapter 1, here). In that time, I've seen some of the amazing changes coming...
Top 5 Reads this week on The Future of Work (15 May 2015)
Every week, I list my top five reads of the previous few days, all focused on understanding the way our world is changing and how this will affect our lives. Enjoy this week's list: Unless You Are Spock, Irrelevant Things Matter in Economic Behavior - an interesting...
4 Factors to consider about CV’s when hiring Digital Natives
Historically a CV, or resumé, has been a useful tool to understand and to assess the ability of a candidate for a role. Increasingly, however, with Digital Natives this may not be as useful a tool. In the past there was a direct link between a job and the life skills...
Leaders are the Brokers of Hope
J.F. Kennedy once said that, “the problems of the world cannot possibly be solved by sceptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need men who can dream of things that never were”. And I am sure that by ‘men’ JFK would have also meant...
New eBook: An Introduction to The Enemy Within
Our latest ebook has just been published digitally. It's a short book, and an easy read, but presents the results of our research team's strategic insights into the key issues teams and organisations are currently facing. The book is called: "An Introduction to The...
VUCA – four organizational culture touch points for Digital Natives
Digital Natives have grown up in a world that has been called the VUCA world. This is an acronym that covers four areas outlined below. V equals volatile U equals uncertain C equals complex A equals ambiguous There is a corresponding VUCA response that we can...
Top 5: This week in the Future of Work (7 May 2015)
Each week, I list my top 5 articles, websites, blogs or online resources of the past seven days. These are not always brand new items on the Net - some come from a few months or years back, but they have been an influence on my thinking about the future of work during...
An Introduction to The Enemy Within
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Curiosity and How to avoid the ‘How To’ Seduction
The statistics and our own research conclusively points to the fact that ‘how to’ headlines, titles and literature sells. (This being the case any article with not one but two ‘how to’s’ in the title ought to be a complete winner!)‘How to do this’ and ‘how to do that’...
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