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Navigating Whiplash: Effective Leadership in the Era of Volatility

Navigating Whiplash: Effective Leadership in the Era of Volatility Issue 213, May 22, 2025 Turbulence. Unpredictability. Volatility. Whiplash. Imagine that you are a retailer today trying to figure out how to plan for an uncertain future in terms of tariffs, pricing and customer confidence. From our vantage point, it’s not just the retail sector that is reeling from the illogical swings on federal policies. The pharmaceutical industry is under siege. As are education, the arts, environmental engineering, tech companies, and…

Kevin Novak
May 22, 2025
Ideas and Innovations Newsletter

Bursting Bubbles: Frugality, No-Buy, and Societal Trends

Bursting Bubbles: Frugality, No-Buy, and Societal Trends Issue 163, June 6, 2024 We recently wrote about a few socioeconomic bubbles we suggested were about to burst. As fate would have it, one of our predictions about customer backlash against price hikes, inflation, asymmetrical stock market performance, and missteps by brands manifested into a renaissance of the no-buy day which was transformed into no-buy July to the no-buy year and then the no-buy challenge. Holding Back As observers of consumer behavior…

Kevin Novak
June 5, 2024
Ideas and Innovations Newsletter

The Value and Challenge of Compromise

The Value and Challenge of Compromise Issue 148, February 22, 2024 How many times did your parents tell you to, “Pick your battle.” And then in the next breath say, “Never compromise your values.” That ambiguity could be confusing to a child, but is mind-bending to an adult navigating our complex, polarized society. Increasingly public opinion is becoming less compromising, leaving common ground hard to find. Compromise: Positive or Negative? In its most basic sense, a compromise can be understood…

Kevin Novak
February 20, 2024
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Ideas + Innovations from 2040: Managing Ourselves and Our Responses

A Helpful Guide to Managing Ourselves and Our Responses We have published 31 Issues of 2040’s Ideas and Innovations Newsletter and appreciate all your feedback and support over this year. We wanted to take the opportunity to curate some of our favorite and most important topics for your holiday reading. As we all take a break from navigating the dynamics in our workplaces and shift to focus on family and friends, we offer you some tactics and approaches you might…

Kevin Novak
November 25, 2021
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