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Human Factor Podcast Season 2 Episode 025: The Collective Transformation Problem: When an Entire Industry Has to Change at Once
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Human Factor Podcast Season 2 Episode 025: The Collective Transformation Problem: When an Entire Industry Has to Change at Once

Episode 025 The Collective Transformation Problem: When an Entire Industry Has to Change at Once Explore the Human Dynamics of Collective Industry and Organizational Transformation Host: Kevin Novak | Guest: Eric Hoplin Duration: 61 minutes Available: May 29, 2026 🎙️Season 2, Episode 25  Episodes are available in both video and audio formats across all major podcast platforms, including Spotify, YouTube, Pandora, Apple Podcasts, and via RSS, among others. Transcript Available Below Episode Overview Season 2, Episode 12 | 025…

Kevin Novak
May 29, 2026
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Measuring Trust as a Behavioral Asset – How to Operationalize the Most Important Intangible in Organizations

Measuring Trust as a Behavioral Asset – How to Operationalize the Most Important Intangible in Organizations Issue 266, May 28, 2026 A client I worked with several years ago published trust survey results showing 84 percent of customers reporting high trust in the institution. The figure was prominently displayed in the annual report, repeated in every stakeholder and governance meeting, and used as a justification for the client’s strategy of competing on relationship quality rather than discounts. Two years later,…

Kevin Novak
May 27, 2026
Human Factor Podcast Season 2 Episode 024: The Growth Trap – What Scaling Reveals About the Human Side of Transformation
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Human Factor Podcast Season 2 Episode 024: The Growth Trap – What Scaling Reveals About the Human Side of Transformation

Episode 024 The Growth Trap: What Scaling Reveals About the Human Side of Transformation What Breaks When an Organization Scales Faster than Its People Can Adapt Host: Kevin Novak | Guest: Mike Perino Duration: 69 minutes Available: May 21, 2026 🎙️Season 2, Episode 24  Episodes are available in both video and audio formats across all major podcast platforms, including Spotify, YouTube, Pandora, Apple Podcasts, and via RSS, among others. Transcript Available Below Episode Overview Season 2, Episode 11 |…

Kevin Novak
May 21, 2026
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The Readiness Illusion – Why the AI Agent Era’s Loudest Claims Outrun the Evidence

The Readiness Illusion: Why the AI Agent Era’s Loudest Claims Outrun the Evidence Issue 265, May 21, 2026 I have been working with large language models long enough now to have formed a view that runs against the way most of the market is talking about this right now. I sat recently with a request that should have been straightforward. The model produced an output that looked confident and was wrong in ways that mattered. I corrected it. The next…

Kevin Novak
May 20, 2026
Human Factor Podcast Season 2 Episode 023: The Pattern Spotter – What You See When You Are Inside Thirty Organizations at Once
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Human Factor Podcast Season 2 Episode 023: The Pattern Spotter – What You See When You Are Inside Thirty Organizations at Once

Episode 023 The Pattern Spotter: What You See When You Are Inside Thirty Organizations At Once Explore the Recurring Human Behaviors, Resistance Patterns, and Cultural Dynamics that Repeat Host: Kevin Novak | Guest: Erin Fuller Duration: 59 minutes Available: May 14, 2026 🎙️Season 2, Episode 23  Episodes are available in both video and audio formats across all major podcast platforms, including Spotify, YouTube, Pandora, Apple Podcasts, and via RSS, among others. Transcript Available Below Episode Overview Season 2, Episode…

Kevin Novak
May 14, 2026
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The Generational Fault Line – Why Your Change Initiative Lands Five Different Ways

The Generational Fault Line – Why Your Change Initiative Lands Five Different Ways Navigating the Psychology of Generational Identity During Organizational Transformation Issue 264, May 14, 2026 Think about the last major change initiative your organization launched. Not the strategy behind it or the technology that powered it, but the way it actually landed on the people in the room. Was there a pattern? Did the people who had been with the organization the longest push back the hardest? Did…

Kevin Novak
May 13, 2026
Human Factor Podcast Season 2 Episode 022: The Diagnostic Map: Why Transformation Fails at the Human Level
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Human Factor Podcast Season 2 Episode 022: The Diagnostic Map: Why Transformation Fails at the Human Level

Episode 022 The Diagnostic Map: Why Transformation Fails at the Human Level An Eight-Question Diagnostic Map that Leaders can Use before Designing any Transformation Initiative Host: Kevin Novak Duration: 34 minutes Available: May 7, 2026 🎙️Season 2, Episode 22  Episodes are available in both video and audio formats across all major podcast platforms, including Spotify, YouTube, Pandora, Apple Podcasts, and via RSS, among others. Transcript Available Below Episode Overview Imagine you are a physician and a patient walks into…

Kevin Novak
May 7, 2026
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Manufactured Engagement – When Social Proof Becomes Social Fiction

Manufactured Engagement When Social Proof Becomes Social Fiction Issue 263, May 7, 2026 In the previous issue and the Artificial Understanding series, I described the comprehension gap and the circular system in which our behavioral data feeds AI systems that shape our behavior without our conscious understanding. I closed the series with a warning about what happens when fabricated behavioral data is injected back into the same algorithmic systems that govern what we see. This fabrication, which I explain later…

Kevin Novak
May 5, 2026
Human Factor Podcast Season 2 Episode 021: When Generations Collide – The Generational Fault Lines of Organizational Transformation
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Human Factor Podcast Season 2 Episode 021: When Generations Collide – The Generational Fault Lines of Organizational Transformation

Episode 021 When Generations Collide – The Generational Fault Lines of Organizational Transformation People Who Share Formative Experiences Develop a Distinct Orientation Toward the World Host: Kevin Novak and Guest: Ryan Vet Duration: 71 minutes Available: May 1, 2026 🎙️Season 2, Episode 21  Episodes are available in both video and audio formats across all major podcast platforms, including Spotify, YouTube, Pandora, Apple Podcasts, and via RSS, among others. Transcript Available Below Episode Overview Think about the last major change…

Kevin Novak
May 1, 2026
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Artificial Understanding – What Feeds the Machine and What It Means for All of Us

Artificial Understanding What Feeds the Machine and What It Means for All of Us Part Three of a Three-Part Series Issue 262, April 30, 2026 Over the past two weeks, this series has examined the comprehension gap that defines our relationship with artificial intelligence. In Part One, I explored how executives are making consequential decisions about AI systems they do not fully understand, creating organizational risk that grows in proportion to the gap between capability and comprehension. In Part Two,…

Kevin Novak
April 29, 2026
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