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Then and Now – a little smile at how things have changed

One of the focus areas of my work as a Conference / Keynote Speaker is Talent. And one of the theories that informs some of my Talent thinking is Generational Theory. Yesterday I received a some cartoons via email highlighting the changes of the last 10 or

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Meet the Mother of the Mac Icon

Meet the Mother of the Mac Icon

Before Mac there was very little by way of GUI (Graphical User Interface). I can still remember the green and black screens with command lines to get into and out of programmes. And then things changed. Suddenly we could click on things to navigate our way around

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2011′s Dissatisfied Workers are Making Their Move in 2012

2011′s Dissatisfied Workers are Making Their Move in 2012

Last week I listened, during a dinner conversation, to one senior leader telling another that the trend of younger people job-hopping was slowing down with a poor economy. The conversation was motivated by a keynote talk I’d just given at their leadership conference around the challenges of

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Fancy yourself a Disrupter? You’re going to have to go into battle

Fancy yourself a Disrupter? You’re going to have to go into battle

The world needs disrupters. In my opinion, at this moment, lots and lots of them. I spent last night at ‘The School of Magic’ launch, which is PPC Cement’s Leadership Academy. My table at dinner included a collection of Southern Africans passionately discussing broader macro issues faced

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Can your company deal with your self-promotion

Business is going to have to get it’s head around the growing trend of self-promotion amongst their employees. Social Media has made this both easy to do and in-vogue amongst today’s smart-phone totting hip and happening set (both young and old). Go back 20 years and it

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Whichever way you cut it, Justin Bieber gets Social Media. Or maybe it gets him?

I’m guessing you’ve seen the movie? Never say Never. Who hasn’t? Especially if you have kids. And even more especially if those kids happen to be of the female variety. I went in kicking and screaming, and came out a raving Justin Bieber fan. Very simply because

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Newly connected younger workforce, is already influencing coworkers

Yesterday I posted some information from the Cisco global research report on today’s younger workers. Here’s an infographic pulled from their report. Makes for some interesting thinking. The highlights of the report are social media and mobility (flexibility in time and space) What’s interesting to add is that it’s

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Social Media v Salary? Which is the more influential factor in recruitment?

Four years ago I stood in what must have been my 20th one day course that year, exploring ‘Talent Management‘ with 30 senior leaders from one of South Africa’s largest banks, and the question was raised….. “how important is social media really, to today’s young people?” Great

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Bungling, Cronyism and Shortsightedness – Three stories of how we create unemployment in South Africa

Listening to the news yesterday morning on the radio, I was impacted by two news stories and an advert that in my opinion are great examples of how we undo forward motion to create jobs in South Africa. We’ve got to tighten up our approach in these

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At last, the real Steve Jobs emerges

There’s a time and a place, for sure. You don’t knock a person who’s recently died, especially when they did a good job influencing the world in a wonderful way. No doubt Steve Jobs did just that. His presence at the helm of Apple has impacted a

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