
2040’s Ideas and Innovations Newsletter Archive
All of our newsletter issues in one easy to access page. Review the list below for inspiration on transforming and changing your organization, your teams or yourself.
2023
The Case for Slow Work
Mistaking Haste for Urgency
Issue 111, May 31, 2023
Spring Awakening: Assessing Your Leadership Skills for Change and Transformation
Issue 110, May 25, 2023
Can You Imagine Living Only in the Past?
Issue 109, May 18, 2023
Making Faulty Assumptions, Part II
Issue 108, May 11, 2023
What Happens When You Make Assumptions?
Issue 106, May 4, 2023
What Do Top Performing Organizations Get Right?
Issue 105, April 27, 2023
Why You Need to Listen to Gen Z
Issue 104, April 20, 2023
The Distortion of Time and Unintended Consequences for Transformation
Issue 103, April 13, 2023
The Future of Personal Agency (Influencing One’s Own Actions in the Age of AI)
Issue 102, April 6, 2023
What Were They Thinking?
Issue 101, March 30, 2023
The Pathway to Continuous Learning
Issue 100, March 23, 2023
Does Your Organization Have Tunnel Vision?
Issue 99, March 16, 2023
Case Study: Sidestepping Accountabilities
Issue 98, March 9, 2023
Breaking the Bond of Trust
Issue 97, March 2, 2023
Can You Hear Me … Now?
Issue 96, February 23, 2023
ChatGPT: Shapeshifting Our World
Issue 95, February 16, 2023
What are the Consequences of Unbounded Optimism?
Issue 94, February 9, 2023
How to Master the Art of Storytelling
Issue 93, February 2, 2023
Too Big to Manage? When Less Is More
Issue 92, January 26, 2023
The Future Isn’t Going to Look Like You Think
Issue 91, January 19, 2023
Do You Have It? Anger? Rage?
Issue 90, January 12, 2023
Forging Your Pathway into 2023
Issue, 89, January 5, 2023
2022
Taking Stock: Our Predictions and Considerations for 2023
Issue 88, December 29, 2022
The Unintended Consequences of Indecision
Issue 87, December 22, 2022
It Was the Best of Times …and Maybe the Worst
Issue 86, December 15, 2022
Why Does a Sense of Belonging Matter More Than Ever?
Issue 85, December 8, 2022
Is Your Organization Ready to Comply with Privacy Protections?
Issue 84, December 1, 2022
What Does It Mean to Practice Gratitude?
Issue 83, Nov 23, 2022
Back to Basics
Issue 82, Nov 17, 2022
What’s Holding You Back?
Issue 81, Nov 10, 2022
A Modern Fable About Social Media
Issue 80, Nov 3, 2022
Too Much Choice Makes Brand Loyalty an Endangered Species
Issue 77, Oct 13, 2022
Systems Thinking Powers Actionable Solutions in Three Easy Steps
The Past Is No Playbook for the Future
Issue 76: Oct 6, 2022
An Elephant? What Elephant? Where Is the Elephant?
Decision-Making: Actions, Influences, Impacts and Unintended Consequences
Issue 75: Sept 29, 2022
Assumptions and Consequences
Issue 74: September 22, 2022
Quiet Quitting
Issue 73: Sept 15, 2022
What Role Do You Play?
Issue 72: Sept 9, 2022
What Is Your North Star?
Issue 71: Sept 1, 2022
How Communications Matter
Issue 70, August 25th, 2022
The New Rules of Work
Issue 69: August 18, 2022
Targeted Transformation
Issue 68: August 11, 2022
Why Do We Obey the Rules?
Issue 67: August 4, 2022
Why Do People Lie?
Issue 66: July 28, 2022
Behavioral and Inference Data: A 360 Perspective
Issue 65: July 21, 2022
To Be Forewarned Is to Be Forearmed
Issue 64: July 14, 2022
Breaking News: Important Privacy Changes
Issue 63: July 7, 2022
Privacy Regulation Update: The Doors Are Locking on User Data
Issue 62: June 30, 2022
2022 Mid-Year Prediction: Unintended Consequences
Issue 61: June 23, 2022
Always Start with a Strategic Premise
Issue 60, June 16, 2022
Shared Purpose Revisited
Issue 59, June 9, 2022
Transformation Is a Messy Business
Issue 58: June 2, 2022
The Fault in Ourselves Revisited
Issue 57: May 26, 2022
How Illusion and Delusion Derail Organizations
Issue 56: May 19, 2022
Leading with Courage Redux
Issue 55: May 12, 2022
Why Does Context Matter to Every Individual and Organization?
Issue 54: May 5, 2022
Are You Holding Everyone Back?
Issue 53: April 28, 2022
Transitioning, Under Pressure … or Voluntarily
Issue 52: April 21, 2022
Why Do We Struggle with White Space?
Issue 51: April 14, 2022
What Keeps You from Attaining Goals?
Issue 50: April 7, 2022
Why Is Good Data Vital Currency and Bad Data a Disaster?
Issue 49: March 31, 2022
Do You Measure by Outputs or Outcomes?
Issue 48: March 24, 2022
How to Have a Complicated Conversation
Issue 47: March 17, 2022
Is Your Organization Prepared to Establish a First-Party Data Strategy?
Issue 46: March 10, 2022
Role Playing
Issue 45: March 3, 2022
Workforce Reset: Top Ten
Issue 44: February 24, 2022
The Power of Positive … and Negative Thinking
Issue 43: February 17, 2022
How Do You Trust?
Issue 42: February 10, 2022
Inflation + True Value: Do You Raise Your Price?
Issue 41: February 3, 2022
How to Use Systems Thinking + Strategic Thinking
Issue 40: January 27, 2022
Is Perception Everything?
Issue 39: January 20, 2022
Nine Real Risks in 2022
Issue 38: January 13, 2022
Shared Purpose
Issue 37: January 6, 2022
2021
A Guide to Readiness for Change and Transformation
Issue 36: December 28, 2021
Great Expectations
Issue 35: December 23, 2021
Context is Everything
Issue 34: December 16, 2021
Communication Theory
Issue 33: December 9, 2021
Eight Predictions from 2040
Issue 32: December 2, 2021
Managing Ourselves and Our Responses
Issue 31: November 25, 2021
How Market Orientation Drives Success
Issue 30: November 18, 2021
Life Stage Marketing and Segmentation
Issue 29: November 11, 2021
Innovation Theater
Issue 28: November 4, 2021
Decision Making and Primitive Automaticity
Issue 27: October 28, 2021
The Fault in Ourselves
Issue 26: October 21, 2021
How to Manage a Five Generation Workforce
Issue 25: October 14, 2021
Decision Making in a Digital Age
Issue 24: October 7, 2021
Taking the Pulse of Your Employees
Issue 23: September 30, 2021
Managing Individual and Team Transitions
Issue 22: September 23, 2021
Readiness for Transformation
Issue 21: September 16, 2021
Customer Loyalty
Issue 19: September 9, 2021
Measuring What Matters
Issue 18: September 2, 2021
The Art and Science of Active Listening
Issue 17: August 26, 2021
Leading With Courage
Issue 16: August 19, 2021
Leading in a Time of Ambiguity
Issue 15: August 12, 2021
How Pattern Recognition Leads to High Performance
Issue 14: August 5, 2021
Playbook for Thriving Post-Pandemic: The Criticality of Agility and Resiliency in 2021 and Beyond
Issue 13: July 29, 2021
A Guide to Operational Readiness for Change
Issue 12: July 22, 2021
Time to Check Your Value Proposition
Issue 11: July 15, 2021
Mastering Communications that Communicate
Issue 10: July 8, 2021
Targeting Engagement, Establishing Trust, and Building Loyalty
Issue 9: July 1, 2021
How Critical Thinking Is Essential to Transformation and Reducing Bias
Issue 8: June 24, 2021
An Executive Playbook for the Critical Path to Establishing Deep and Meaningful First-Party Data
Issue 7: June 17, 2021
High Performance Executive Leadership in the Workplace
Issue 6: June 10, 2021
The Truth about Transformation
Book Preview Excerpt
Organizations, whether private companies, non-profits, charities or governments seek to transform to take advantage of new opportunities, including technological advances. Often, technology is the major driver of change that results in transformation. As a result, the organization often fails to achieve its objective and goal to truly transform. You see, technology remains an enabler, not a silver bullet. True transformative change requires understanding of the human factors at play, human conscious and subconscious behaviors, how humans inter-relate and how society itself and all of its members are changing.
Our workforces are changing, the expertise we need is becoming harder to acquire and roles are shifting. In addition, before and because of Covid in 2020, the world around us is becoming very different, a new reality is taking hold, one that will fundamentally change who we are, how we work and yes, how we seek to ensure organizations transform for today and for the future.
The Truth about Transformation, a new book by Kevin Novak, will soon become available. Enjoy a short preview.ard and upward from the 2040 Team