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Gladwell, Cobain, Winehouse, birth, death and 27

If you’ve read Malcolm Gladwell’s book Outliers, then you’re probably familiar with one of the ideas he suggests around being born in a certain era, a certain generation, or even a certain month. When you’re born counts, says Gladwell. Some or even all of your success, depending

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Happy Birthday Madiba – 93 years old today

Today is Nelson Mandela’s Birthday. 93 years old. The only person that the United Nations has dedicated a day to. 18 July is known as Nelson Mandela International Day. How does one even begin to reflect on who he is, what he stands for and what he

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Future Fit for a New World of Work

This post was inspired by a conversation with my colleague Saffron Baggallay around Training / L&D. Saffron heads up our Training Business Unit. In my world Saffron is filed under ‘Clever People who get me thinking interesting thoughts’ The New World of Work! We at TomorrowToday throw

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Which countries the young and the educated want to go

Here’s a great InfoGraphic from Good, around some research done by Gallup that tracks the movement of young people with and without education.It raises some important questions for countries included in the study, and for those that aren’t. In a world in which young people find moving

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Gen Y’s response to the economic crisis

Millennial Marketing has an interesting post looking into research done on Gen Y in the US, and how they’re responding to the economic downturn. There are plenty of fresh observations being made around this younger set of people, growing up in a different world to their older

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OneMinuteNews aims at Gen Y

Picked up a post on FastCompany this week, ‘With One Minute News, “News” in One Minute‘. The youngest, most attention-deficient generation received a new, minor monument to its own fatuity today in the form of … Hey! Pay attention! OneMinuteNews.com proudly touts itself as a site offering

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What will today’s children do for work in 2022?

Recently I was invited onto 702 to be interviewed by Redi Tlhabi on her show. The subject of conversation, as per this post’s title was what today’s children might be doing in 2022 for work. The show was recorded under Redi’s PodCast ‘The Best of Redi Tlhabi’.

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For Gen Y, God and work (amongst others) are a choice

The subject of this post doesn’t seem, at first glance, to be a very paradigm shifting statement. In fact, it seems quite normal. Take a step back, go and find people in their 30′s, 40′s, 50′s and 60′s, and you’ll discover that ‘normal’ has changed. And in

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Researching the Millennial Mind with @carol_phillips

Carol Phillips is someone I follow on Twitter. If you’re looking for insights and great thoughts around Marketing and Generational Theory, then she’s definitely worth following. This week she uploaded a presentation onto Slide Share titled, ‘Researching the Millennial Mind‘. You can watch the presentation below, or

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Do we Twitter because we’re human, and are we human because we Twitter?

Last year I read ‘Born to Run‘. If you’re a runner, or would like to be, and haven’t read it, then do yourself a favour, it’s a goodie. At the end of the book the author suggests that Homo Sapiens made it to where we have because

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