Published books
Current Writing Projects
- Navigating your career in the workplace – co-writing with Kerry Dawkins – due for release in second quarter of 2012
- The TIDES of Change / How to think like a Futurist – due for release in late 2012
- Strategic Leadership Intelligence – collaborating with Pete Laburn and Keith Coats – no release date set
- Future-Proof Your Teenager – co-writing with Nikki Bush – no release date set, but likely in mid 2013
- Africa’s future – no release date set, but likely to be early 2013 – see details of the project here
Published Books
Graeme has three books all published by Penguin. They have all become best sellers, and have gone into multiple reprints and redesigns.
Follow the links below to purchase single copies. For bulk purchases, please contact Graeme to see if a discount could be negotiated with the publishers. Click on the book covers for larger images.
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Mind the Gap, with Sue Grant-Marshall, Penguin, Updated edition 2011 (originally 2004)
Understanding the different generations “Mind the Gap” is for you if you want to know why: Your 18-year-old son isn’t interested in being a doctor – he wants to save the whale; your grandfather gives you Big Band CDs for your birthday; your secretary knows more than you do; your grandson calls you Peter instead of granddad. In short, this title aims to promote understanding between the generations. This is vitally important in all of our relationships, especially in the workplace. Application chapters focus attention on: work, marketing and advertising, leadership, teamwork, finances, parenting, education and training, “retyrement”, travel, politics, faith, health, and home. Still a best selling book, with five star reviews! This edition has been fully revised, expanded and updated. With all new chapters on the next generation, generations around the world and more, as well as new information and updated insights based on 10 years of applying generational in companies and organisations in over 50 countries. Buy: Listed at Google books NOTE: The first edition of the book was re-issued with a different cover design in late 2010. Here is Penguin’s press release.
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Future-Proof Your Child: Parenting the wired generation, with Nikki Bush, Penguin, Oct 2008
Understand why the world has changed, and how to respond as a parent of young children ‘Stop the world, I want to get off!’ is the regular refrain of many of today’s time-pressured parents. ‘Give me an experience and I’ll promise you a relationship,’ is the mantra of their children. The world has changed. The future has changed. Childhood is changing. Raising children has never been more challenging – or potentially rewarding. It is increasingly obvious that the world into which our young children will enter as adults, somewhere between 2020 and 2030, will be nothing like the world their parents grew up in, or even the world we currently inhabit. We need a better understanding of the world of the future in order to prepare our children and to ‘future-proof’ them. Future-proof your Child is a very different kind of parenting book. While it contains many useful practical hints and tips, it also focuses on the context for parenting and child development today. It convinces 21st-century parents of the need to change their approach to parenting future generations. This title will help you to create a framework for your parenting experience as you embark on the highly personal adventure of raising children who will thrive in the future.It is relevant, accessible, practical and inspirational. It will take you back in time and forward into the future to help you make the best choices for your children now! Future-proof your Child highlights the critical importance of making choices, having conversations, and consciously connecting with tomorrow’s children today. BUY: Reviews
NOTE: For those parents who want to find out about parenting teenagers, Graeme has written the Foreword to a book that will be launched on 1 May 2010. Written by two South African authors, Meg Fargher (ex head of St Mary’s Girls School – the oldest school in Johannesburg) and Helen Dooley (a PhD psychologist and veteran of school and family psychology), the book looks at helping teenagers through their schooling years. It’s called “The Adolescent Storm” and can be purchased at Kalahari.net
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Mind Over Money, with Louis Fourie and Sue Grant Marshall, Penguin, 2001
How different generations approach personal financial management “Mind Over Money” is not so much about your money as it is about your mind. It’s about your attitude and approach to money. It’s not hard to make money if you are careful and sussed – millionaires are two a penny today. But, keeping it is the problem. That’s what smart people do. It’s what you need to do. Playwright Tennessee Williams said, ” You can be young without money but you can’t be old without it.” Bear this in mind – today’s 30 and 40 year olds will live to be 100 years old. Teenagers will crack 120 years easily. That’s a long time to live in “retirement”. Will your money last? This title is about how to live from womb to tomb in such a way that you can live – and die – in comfort. Along the way the authors show you how to grow up happy; choose the right careers (forget what your parents and teachers say); understand why Baby Boomers can’t stop shopping and why the Silent generation saves like mad and always pays cash for everything. You’ll appreciate your teenager, your father, your wife, your grandchild’s attitudes to money – at last. Best of all – you’ll understand yourself! BUY: |
