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Ideas + Innovations from 2040: How to Practice Critical Thinking

How Critical Thinking Is Essential to Transformation and Reducing Bias What is your personal sphere of influence? As a team member, you influence your co-workers, customers, members, and management with your contributions. As a department manager, you influence a team of staff, members, customers, and others to achieve specific goals. As a member of the C Suite, your influence, informed and directed by a board and stakeholders, sweeps across the entire organization. And, as a CEO you set the course…

Ideas and Innovations Newsletter: Agility is the New Nimble

Agility is the New Nimble Every generation a new business operating principle bubbles up into the professional organizational arena.  Resilience has been updated with Agility (yes, we know it sounds like being Nimble, but it’s a lot more nuanced).  Agility is a mainstay in the tech community – particularly with software development. Here’s a basic definition: “Business agility refers to rapid, continuous, and systematic evolutionary adaptation and entrepreneurial innovation directed at gaining and maintaining competitive advantage.” Simply stated, Agile management…

Ideas and Innovations Newsletter: Membership Drives Your Growth

Membership Drives Your Growth Welcome to 2040’s thought leadership series on how to build businesses and organizations that thrive in a post-pandemic marketplace. Amazon is credited with kick-starting a massive change in consumer behavior…and expectations.  The public conversation and market trends reflect these systemic shifts: quick delivery, free shipping and returns, the digital marketplace platform, a trusted source for search and most importantly, a relationship based on membership and the personal or professional rewards that relationships deliver. Remember, a relationship…

Ideas and Innovations Newsletter: Lessons Learned from the Pandemic

Lessons Learned from the Pandemic Welcome! We are launching a 2040 weekly thought leadership connection to keep you updated on ideas, innovations, industry trends and emerging best practices on leadership, workplace culture, organizational and operational transformation. For business leaders, the pandemic has propelled many levels of professional and personal reflection. On a professional level, we’ve heard ad nauseum about how Covid revealed inherent organizational vulnerabilities, accelerated emerging technologies, caused a shift in consumer behavior and powered business pivots and new…

Smithsonian Ignite Talk: The New White Space

In the beginning: disruption, a new white space was created, the web came to life. The web, an immature space which offered great possibilities and opportunities to those that understood it. The newness created excitement, bandwagon rolling, one must be first out the gate, the trailblazer before everyone else jumps onto the new exciting wagon rolling into the future. The great time of experimentation, prototyping, testing and building began. An explosion of approaches… An explosion of information…. An explosion of…

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