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Brain Rot, Attention Spans … and You

Brain Rot, Attention Spans … and You Issue 190, December 12, 2024 If you are anything like us, reading that Oxford University identified “brain rot” as the word of the year, we took a pause to consider the implications. Then of course, we felt compelled to weigh in given its correlation to managing change and transformation as well as understanding a market, customers and a workforce. We have been reeling toward shorter attention spans, higher levels of distraction, an explosion…

What is Normal?

What is Normal? Issue 142, January 11, 2024 How many times have we heard, “the new normal.” Or conversely, the longing to return to what was normal. Or an optimistic claim to create a modern normal.  Well, guess what, there is no normal.  Nor was there ever one. We have operated in a disruptive, asymmetrical marketplace for over a century of continuous change. The difference today is the speed of communications that transmit the market conditions that we face 24/7. …

An Elephant? What Elephant? Where Is the Elephant? – Ideas + Innovations from 2040

An Elephant? What Elephant? Where Is the Elephant? Decision-Making: Actions, Influences, Impacts and Unintended Consequences Issue 75: Sept 29, 2022 In June of this year, we published an article about unintended consequences and how many organizations, governments and individuals are blindsided by not anticipating the future. Technically, unintended consequences are outcomes of actions in the immediate past or in current times that have unforeseen impacts or influences on the near or far future. Consider a line of dominoes or a…

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