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Change Is a Team Sport: We All Play a Role 2040’s Ideas + Innovations

Change Is a Team Sport: We All Play a Role Issue 118, July 20, 2023 Last week we gave you a case study to demonstrate how critical the human factor (and personalities and our own blind spots) becomes in seeking to innovate, make change and transform. Change is ever-present in daily life. It is also a constant in response to an organization’s market, system, and the needs and wants of customers and workforce. Resistance to innovation, change, and transformation is…

Kevin Novak

July 18, 2023

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Spring Awakening – Ideas and Innovations from 2040

Spring Awakening Issue 110, May 25, 2023 It’s Spring and we are coming up on a major holiday weekend where we hope for good weather and time outdoors with family and friends. At 2040 we’re feeling optimistic and seeking opportunities for renewal (even escape) as we see the landscape around us come to life once again. In fact, we recently came to the realization that organizations seeking to change, and transform could easily be compared to a natural landscape and…

Kevin Novak

May 25, 2023

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The Future of Personal Agency – Ideas and Innovations from 2040

The Future of Personal Agency Issue 102, April 6, 2023 It can’t come as a surprise that many people feel they are losing their sense of personal agency in the face of such rapid technological change, global disruptions and polarized social and political factions. Personal agency? It’s a “sense that I am the one who is causing or generating an action. A person with a sense of personal agency perceives himself/herself as the subject influencing his/her own actions and life…

Kevin Novak

April 5, 2023

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How to Master the Art of Storytelling – Ideas and Innovations from 2040

How to Master the Art of Storytelling Issue 93, February 2, 2023 Origin Stories Storytelling and narrative have become the buzzwords of modern marketing. You’ve heard it before: What’s your organization’s brand story? Make your organization come alive through narrative. Help customers relate emotionally to your business by telling a story. And possibly the most ominous: Tell your story, or else your stakeholders will write it for you. Storytelling has been around as long as humans; the 50,000-year-old cave paintings…

Kevin Novak

February 2, 2023

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When Less Is More – Ideas and Innovations from 2040

When Less Is More Issue 92, January 26, 2023 “We’re too big to fail.” Try that one out on Elon Musk or Mark Zuckerberg. If there were ever two visionaries with an overabundance of hubris, they’re the ones. Although the concept of “too big to fail” technically refers to an organization that is so important to a financial system that a government would not allow it to go bankrupt due to the seriousness of the economic repercussions (Wiki), one could argue…

Kevin Novak

January 26, 2023

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The Future Isn’t Going to Look Like You Think – Ideas and Innovations from 2040

The Future Isn’t Going to Look Like You Think Issue 91, January 19, 2023 Organizations founded on exponential growth are in for a wake-up call. In reverse-trend thinking, some experts believe that good enough is just good enough. Entrepreneurs believe that there are no limits to growth. What do we believe? It requires a deeper look at what is going on in our global population shifts to really understand future growth…or constriction. We wrote about this in our book, The…

Kevin Novak

January 19, 2023

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What Role Do You Play? – Ideas + Innovations from 2040

What Role Do You Play? Issue 72: Sept 8, 2022 Here’s a real-life scenario. Recently there has been friction and dissension within a management team. Managers are struggling to help manage a disruptive economy, guide strategy in an ambiguous marketplace, rein in a headstrong CEO that is resisting authority, and manage multiple powerplays among members who believe they have all the answers or who are afraid to reveal themselves and what they don’t know. This is not a fictional drama…

Kevin Novak

September 7, 2022

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Targeted Transformation – Ideas + Innovations from 2040

Targeted Transformation Issue 68: August 11, 2022 What’s the default approach to organizational pivots and transformation? Popular opinion is that technology will lead the way and the workforce will follow. It’s a seductive, but majorly misguided notion. First and foremost, it’s the human factor that will make or break any strategic plan. And that’s the focus of our new book, The Truth about Transformation. Our playbook takes a deep focus on what you need to know, the questions you should…

Kevin Novak

August 11, 2022

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2040’s Ideas and Innovations: Workforce Reset

Workforce Reset Issue 44: February 24, 2022 The workforce is changing in real-time in terms of how employees want to be recognized, valued, and supported – and how employers are responding. Much has been written about the headlines Gen Zs are making regarding work, but the shifts taking place are not restricted to only one generation in our six-generation workforce. In parallel to employee demands, there are some sea changes that are worth noting that are subtly reshaping how we…

Kevin Novak

February 24, 2022

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Ideas + Innovations from 2040: How Market Orientation Drives Success

How Market Orientation Drives Success There has been much written about the dynamic and disruptive market forces we operate in. But there is less attention paid to how an organization and its system can only achieve its purpose and goals if the individual and group-based human factors are aligned and oriented towards a shared value proposition to the market. We call this market orientation: enterprise-wide market information (intelligence) related to the present and upcoming needs and desires of customers, disseminating…

Kevin Novak

November 18, 2021

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