Video: Technology replacing professionals in 10 years
If you had told a farmer a century ago that he would not need labourers, and would be able to harvest and manage his farm using machines he would have laughed at you. If you had told factory bosses the...
View Article7 Terrible Management Fads That Just Won’t Die – from Inc.com
A few months ago, I read the Inc.com blog post on “7 Terrible Management Fads That Just Won’t Die”. I have spent some time thinking about it, and wanting to engage with it. It’s a provocative read,...
View ArticleThe four horsemen of mediocrity, by Seth Godin
Seth Godin’s blog today is superb. He is identified four key reasons that employees are disengaged, that productivity is declining or stagnant, and that companies struggle to innovate and develop. The...
View ArticlePartnership Working – What Habits Really Work?
It really does take two to tango! Strawberries and Cream, Lennon and McCartney, Laurel and Hardy, Batman and Robin, Gin and Tonic, Bonnie and Clyde (okay, that one didn’t end so well!) are cited as...
View ArticleAre your companies’ mentoring efforts adding enough value?
A cornerstone of almost all business strategies is the need to get more out of people. It’s because of this that mentoring remains a key component of many development programmes. Especially in South...
View ArticleLoyalty: Red and Blue on Merseyside and what we can learn about loyalty
As I write this I am sitting in quaint little coffee shop on Liverpool’s main street, one minutes walk from The Cavern where it all started for The Beatles. As I watch people walk by on what is a rare...
View ArticleSuccession Planning: 5 lessons from a fallen giant
Something had to stop Manchester United from continuing their dominant ways and it came from what many thought would be the most likely direction: when it came time to change the leader (manager). We...
View ArticleOn Change: Blue cheese, tastier than ever!
In response to a client’s need to assist team leaders grasp and engage with some required internal change an old story was retold. The underpinning framework guiding the work that was done in Hong Kong...
View ArticleMaking Your Life Just a Little Easier (what we do at TomorrowToday)
“So, you’re like ‘Step Zero’ then, are you?” We were doing some work a few years ago with the consulting arm of one of the Big Four accounting firms, and one of their team was trying to find a way to...
View ArticleThe Enemy Within
The best of strategies can be thwarted and undone by the presence of an enemy within the ranks. Even worse, an enemy within can sow the seeds that result in destruction and ultimate annihilation. As a...
View ArticleFollowership: How to act the other 98% of the time, when we aren’t leading.
Companies and individuals around the world spend billions on courses, books, conferences, and symposiums to develop leadership skills. One thing every single person is though is a follower – everyone...
View ArticleCareer Conversations
The world of work provides us with many choices. We can choose our employer and the duration that we want to work for that employer. We can choose to join the entrepreneurial trend and be our own boss....
View ArticleLeader Fit
With all the demands that are placed on leaders in today’s World of Work, most are still struggling to cope with the complexity and change impacting their business, managing their own career and health...
View ArticlePlay Well: A lesson for leaders when it comes to serious play
Who is the biggest tyre company in the world? You might be tempted to say Goodyear or Bridgestone but you would be wrong. In fact the biggest (or maybe the smallest) tyre company in the world is LEGO....
View ArticleWhy is storytelling important in business?
What is your competitive advantage in the connection economy? In this 1 minute video clip, Keith (TomorrowToday’s Director of Storytelling) explains why storytelling in business is such an important...
View ArticleChange: The Marching Tune for Leaders
In TIDES of Change TomorrowToday identifies five major disruptive change drivers shaping the new world of work. Understanding change is important if we are to engage with both the threats and...
View ArticleThe question every CEO needs to ask HR
There is the well-worn clique that, ‘culture eats strategy for breakfast every day’ but the reality is, it is spot-on. Organisational culture matters. It is within your culture – the way ‘we do things...
View ArticleTiny habits to integrate a new generation into the workplace
BJ Fogg has developed a behavior change model that is a useful point of reference to help organizations make the changes required to be effective employers of choice for generation Y and generation Z....
View ArticleLearning life through the games we play
My son recently asked me about some shares that we have bought as an investment for him and his sister. He asked me why we had bought shares and not just put the money in a bank account. I explained...
View ArticleFive reasons why the Gen X – Gen Y divide is the next talent management bridge.
Generation Y are not just younger versions of Generation X. Generation X look at Generation Y and see themselves. Gen X don’t see themselves as old, so when they look at younger men and women they...
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