If Future Thinking is so important why aren’t we teaching it?

#FutureNow, Disruption, Future World of Work

It was Ricardo Semler who once said something like, “Every company should hire someone who’s job it is to look out the window.” I’ve always thought that would be nice work if you can get it 🙂 Business needs people who are bringing the outside...

Just How Important Is Creativity In Business?

#CrayonProject, Creativity, Disruption, Organisational Design, Play

I don’t know the answer to the question about the importance of creativity in business? I know how important creativity should be in business. I’m just unsure how business feels about it? Quotes and studies abound supporting the notion that creativity is...

Laurel Or Yanny? If It’s Not A Gender Thing, What Is It?

Disruption

This is not the first time we’ve been asked by the internet to choose what we think we’re taking in by way of information? I’m not sure where it all started, but for me it was the stripes in the dress back in 2015. Apparently it’s not just what...

Did Whatsapp (Facebook) just get properly disrupted by Europe (GDPR)?

#FlyingUnstable, Customer Experience, Disruption, Technology, Trends

With two children of 15 and 18, a headline like, WhatsApp likely to raise age limit to 18 in South Africa, got my attention as it arrived in my feed. The reason for the age limit raise is because Facebook (the owners of Whatsapp) just changed the terms of service for...

Grit. Today’s Current New Next Big Thing in People Performance

#FutureNow, Disruption, Scarce Skills, Talent

You may have picked up a touch of cynicism in my title? Not because I think the concept of Grit deserves it, only because I often smile when the people performance consulting world finds a new current next big thing. We’ve had excellence, diversity, innovation,...

Beautiful Innocence v My Corrupted Mind

#CrayonProject, Creativity, Disruption, Play

When you looked at the bottle (the cover image for this post) what did you see? Two bodies in an Intertwined Embrace, or 9 Dolphins? I saw the intertwined bodies (I needed help to see the dolphins). Children see the 9 dolphins. Simple explanation… they...