http://www.connectioneconomy.com/2007/05/30/buppies-coming-to-terms-with-young-black-staff/ An outlet for musings, observations and futureneering from the company helping you to transition into the connection economy Thu, 20 Nov 2008 18:32:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 http://www.connectioneconomy.com/2007/05/30/buppies-coming-to-terms-with-young-black-staff/#comment-191395 June ezine at ?ic @TomorrowToday.biz Thu, 26 Jul 2007 11:27:20 +0000 http://www.tmtd.biz/2007/05/30/buppies-coming-to-terms-with-young-black-staff/#comment-191395 [...] :: Featured Articles in JuneDeanvanLeeuwen - Crowdsourcing - Getting Your Customers and Staff to develop new innovations for youCrowdsourcing is a technique that progressive companies are using to translate the enthusiasm of their most highly-engaged customers into valuable marketing, branding, or product-development insight. Dean van Leeuwen, TomorrowToday’s UK and European director, who has an MBA and extensive work experience in marketing, looks at this new trend and provides practical guidelines for customer-led organisations.Click here to read the rest of this article GraemeCodrington - Prisoners of the pastThe opening line of the best selling business book of all time is as succinct as it is true: “Good is the enemy of great”. Jim Collins’ 2001 bestseller, “Good to Great” explains how most companies never become great because they are already good. They have become prisoners to their past – not feeling any need to push boundaries, innovate, prepare for the unexpected, stretch themselves or make necessary changes to ensure sustainable success. Dr Graeme Codrington argues that this is a recipe for disaster, that only future-focused leadership - who have the guts to look forward and not back - can avert. Click here to read the rest of this article KeithCoats - The New Village: Building Courageous CompaniesIn this article, Keith Coats, our resident leadership expert, visits one of his favourite themes: the company as a village. He explains the four key requirements for developing successful and resilient organisations: belonging, mastery, independence and generosity.Click here to read the rest of this article PeteLaburn - Why Strategies Don’t WorkMany people will agree with Pete Laburn, strategy consultant and part of TomorrowToday’s network, that strategy just doesn’t work in most companies. Its either about just getting a plan done for head office, or we actually don’t have the time to lift our heads above the daily grind to see into the future. In this article, Pete argues that there is one dominant reason why strategies fail, and that is that the only strategy that organisations will deliver is the one that they are capable of delivering. He suggests three critical elements for developing organisational capability for implementing strategies.Click here to read the rest of this article AloysiasMaimane - Buppies - coming to terms with young black staffBuppies - Black yuppies. Black young upwardly mobile professionals. Research shows that this is one of the fastest growing demographic groups in South Africa, but many companies and leaders have no idea how to manage them. Aloysias Maimane, a new member of the TomorrowToday team and a top South African presenter and facilitator, provides some insights into this important group.Click here to read the rest of this article [...] [...] :: Featured Articles in JuneDeanvanLeeuwen - Crowdsourcing - Getting Your Customers and Staff to develop new innovations for youCrowdsourcing is a technique that progressive companies are using to translate the enthusiasm of their most highly-engaged customers into valuable marketing, branding, or product-development insight. Dean van Leeuwen, TomorrowToday’s UK and European director, who has an MBA and extensive work experience in marketing, looks at this new trend and provides practical guidelines for customer-led organisations.Click here to read the rest of this article GraemeCodrington - Prisoners of the pastThe opening line of the best selling business book of all time is as succinct as it is true: “Good is the enemy of great”. Jim Collins’ 2001 bestseller, “Good to Great” explains how most companies never become great because they are already good. They have become prisoners to their past – not feeling any need to push boundaries, innovate, prepare for the unexpected, stretch themselves or make necessary changes to ensure sustainable success. Dr Graeme Codrington argues that this is a recipe for disaster, that only future-focused leadership - who have the guts to look forward and not back - can avert. Click here to read the rest of this article KeithCoats - The New Village: Building Courageous CompaniesIn this article, Keith Coats, our resident leadership expert, visits one of his favourite themes: the company as a village. He explains the four key requirements for developing successful and resilient organisations: belonging, mastery, independence and generosity.Click here to read the rest of this article PeteLaburn - Why Strategies Don’t WorkMany people will agree with Pete Laburn, strategy consultant and part of TomorrowToday’s network, that strategy just doesn’t work in most companies. Its either about just getting a plan done for head office, or we actually don’t have the time to lift our heads above the daily grind to see into the future. In this article, Pete argues that there is one dominant reason why strategies fail, and that is that the only strategy that organisations will deliver is the one that they are capable of delivering. He suggests three critical elements for developing organisational capability for implementing strategies.Click here to read the rest of this article AloysiasMaimane - Buppies - coming to terms with young black staffBuppies - Black yuppies. Black young upwardly mobile professionals. Research shows that this is one of the fastest growing demographic groups in South Africa, but many companies and leaders have no idea how to manage them. Aloysias Maimane, a new member of the TomorrowToday team and a top South African presenter and facilitator, provides some insights into this important group.Click here to read the rest of this article [...]

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