Creativity, Disruption, Future World of Work, Innovation, Play
LinkedIn’s data suggests that there are over 50 000 skills in the world. These can be divided into soft and hard skills. While hard skills only apply to specific sections of the workforce, soft skills apply to all. In 2019, of all 50 000 skills listed,...
#FutureNow, Future World of Work, Trends
When I think about people’s response to future thinking, I often divide the world into 3 kinds of people: Wing It People – These are people who wake up every morning and take it as it comes. They make do with what they’re presented, and do what they...
#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...
#CrayonProject, Future World of Work, Play, Trends
My interest in Play is in the realisation of improved creativity and innovation, primarily in the workplace. However, one cannot avoid discussing both the importance of and decline in Play, with regards to children, if you’re going to describe the context we...
#FutureNow, Creativity, Future World of Work, Generations, Trends
If research shows that the primary reason children are given homework is not being achieved, surely we need to take a serious look at why we continue to issue it, and if we can’t find a good reason to carry on, then we must stop it all together? This seems like...
Future World of Work, Generations, Leadership, Talent
There’s something most horrid that happens as we get older, somewhere on the journey from 11 to 23, and it involves the eradication of a fundamental part of what makes us human, and that is the ability to play. But it doesn’t stop there. Not only is it...
