Kevin Novak

Leading with Courage Redux Issue 55, May 12, 2022 When we published the Leading with Courage newsletter last Fall, we were still emerging from the worst of the pandemic, slightly dazed and confused. We were facing a perfect storm that tested our resolve and creativity in leading our way to the future. Today, the entire world has seemingly collectively recognized the face of courage in the Ukrainian people and their leader, Volodymyr Zelensky. The Wall Street Journal states, “Zelensky defines courage…

Kevin Novak

May 12, 2022

2040’s Ideas and Innovations: Why Does Context Matter to Every Individual and Organization?

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2040’s Ideas and Innovations: Why Does Context Matter to Every Individual and Organization?

Why Does Context Matter to Every Individual and Organization? Issue 54: May 5, 2022 In times of uncertainty and ambiguity, context is essential to providing clarity in communications and interpersonal relations – both personal and professional. It has become a challenge to understand others when there is an abundance of misinformation and personal spin on the facts. Even more confusing, history is recorded according to the historian’s context, which can be a highly personal interpretation. Worst case, the lack of…

Kevin Novak

May 5, 2022

2040’s Ideas and Innovations: Are You Holding Everyone Back?

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2040’s Ideas and Innovations: Are You Holding Everyone Back?

Are You Holding Everyone Back? Issue 53: April 28, 2022 Some people are quick processors, others way slower. Some people are decisive, others less so. Some people thrive on structure, others won’t be boxed in. And some people are planners, others can’t be bothered. We all know the types: Planners get to the airport hours before the flight; their nemeses are always running to the gate. What happens when key members of a team don’t process quickly enough, are indecisive,…

Kevin Novak

April 27, 2022

2040’s Ideas and Innovations: Transitioning, Under Pressure … or Voluntarily

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2040’s Ideas and Innovations: Transitioning, Under Pressure … or Voluntarily

Transitioning, Under Pressure … or Voluntarily Issue 52: April 21, 2022 Does this sound familiar? You have spent most of your professional life perfecting who you are and have chosen to become. It’s a significant investment to fine-tune a life that conforms to your beliefs, hopes and dreams. Then wham! You have become marginal, or even worse, irrelevant. Suddenly (although it was gradual in coming if you had been paying attention) you have to reinvent yourself. This turning point is…

Kevin Novak

April 20, 2022

2040’s Ideas and Innovations: Why Do We Struggle with White Space?

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2040’s Ideas and Innovations: Why Do We Struggle with White Space?

Why Do We Struggle with White Space? Issue 51: April 14, 2022 Here’s an existential question: How do you fill an empty/white space? Spoiler alert: First, ask yourself is it worth filling? Second, is what you’re filling it with valuable, relevant and meaningful? Lastly, don’t hold back if you’re worried whether the full space is going to be accepted by others or will we be ridiculed and sequestered to the back of the room. Too often our default behaviors kick…

Kevin Novak

April 13, 2022

Attaining Goals: What Holds You Back? – Ideas + Innovations from 2040

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Attaining Goals: What Holds You Back? – Ideas + Innovations from 2040

What Keeps You from Attaining Goals? Issue 50: April 7, 2022 Any transformation, transition or change requires setting and attaining goals. But does the end justify the means? In other words, do we focus so acutely on the goals we set that we lose sight of whether the goals move us forward to what we aspire to? How do we ensure our goals are worthy and relevant? How often do we mistake a goal for intention? A goal has a…

Kevin Novak

April 6, 2022

Good Data Vital Currency and Bad Data a Disaster – Ideas + Innovations from 2040

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Good Data Vital Currency and Bad Data a Disaster – Ideas + Innovations from 2040

Why Is Good Data Vital Currency and Bad Data a Disaster? Issue 49: March 31, 2022 We often talk about the common problem of collecting massive amounts of data without a strategy to transform it into intelligent action-oriented insights. We are all drowning in data as technology and digital interactions have allowed us to collect and store more data and offer access to it. Given the large amounts of data now at our fingertips, we need data scientists and analytical…

Kevin Novak

March 31, 2022

“if you never have a destination, you are never lost.”

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2040’s Ideas and Innovations: Do You Measure by Outputs or Outcomes?

Do You Measure by Outputs or Outcomes? Issue 48: March 24, 2022 How do you and your organization measure accomplishments and achievements? In an Industrial Age mindset, output was believed to be the only measure as maximizing production efficiency became something close to a religious mantra. In today’s Knowledge Age era, outcome, actually accomplishing a strategy or goal is the real measure that determines outcome not output. In a marketplace that values what an organization stands for and its effect…

Kevin Novak

March 23, 2022

Complicated Conversations: How to Have Them – 2040’s Ideas and Innovations

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Complicated Conversations: How to Have Them – 2040’s Ideas and Innovations

How to Have a Complicated Conversation Issue 47: March 17, 2022 How many recent conversations at work or in your personal life have been complicated? Everyone is anxious about the war in Ukraine, the unjust actions on its people and the unprovoked war’s effects on our country and the world. This new source of anxiety adds to our stress levels in navigating a return to some level of what was normal pre-pandemic. The global situation has also thrust us into…

Kevin Novak

March 16, 2022

First-Party Data Strategy: Is Your Organization Prepared? – Ideas + Innovations from 2040

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First-Party Data Strategy: Is Your Organization Prepared? – Ideas + Innovations from 2040

Is Your Organization Prepared to Establish a First-Party Data Strategy? Issue 46: March 10, 2022 The criticality and the stakes for embracing a first-party data strategy are becoming more and more urgent as the days pass. The evolving regulatory requirement is to adopt organizational privacy practices that put the controls of one’s data in the hands and decision-making power of an individual, not an organization. In late spring of 2021, in anticipation of the regulatory changes, we advised our clients…

Kevin Novak

March 9, 2022

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