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Human Factor Podcast

Human Factor Podcast Season 1 Episode 2 The Gen Z Factor: How Younger Generations Are Rewiring Workplace Psychology

Episode 002 The Gen Z Factor: How Younger Generations Are Rewiring Workplace Psychology Explore how Gen Z’s Pragmatic Approach to Loyalty, Meaning, and Work Relationships Is Fundamentally Reshaping Organizational Expectations Host: Kevin Novak Duration: 28 minutes Available: October 16, 2025 🎙️Season 1, Episode 2 Episodes are available in both video and audio formats across all major podcast platforms, including Spotify, YouTube, Pandora, Apple Podcasts, and via RSS, among others. Transcript Available Below Episode Overview Organizations are hemorrhaging $1 trillion annually…

Kevin Novak
October 16, 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

Anti-Perfectionism Is on the Rise

Anti-Perfectionism Is on the Rise Issue 121, August 10, 2023 Recently it has come to our attention, and no doubt yours as well, that some organizations are having a rough go at it stabilizing new workplace models. Hell, society itself seems to be generally on edge finding some new stabilizing normal way to make sense of our ongoing disruptive quality of life. On the one hand in organizations, hybrid models have settled into a norm. On the other hand, many…

Kevin Novak
August 9, 2023
Ideas and Innovations Newsletter

Why You Need to Listen to Gen Z – Ideas and Innovations from 2040

Why You Need to Listen to Gen Z Issue 104, April 20, 2023 How well do you know your Gen Z employees?  For that matter, how well do you know the millennials, Gen Xers and boomers?  We have written extensively in The Truth About Transformation about the benefits and challenges of managing a multigenerational workforce. Since things continue to evolve and pivot at warp speed, we thought it was timely to update you on the trendline of recent developments in…

Kevin Novak
April 20, 2023
Ideas and Innovations Newsletter

Ideas + Innovations from 2040: How to Manage a Five Generation Workforce

How to Manage a Five Generation Workforce We are at an interesting inflection point: Five different generations make up today’s workforce: Gen Z, millennials, Gen X, boomers and the Silent Generation. And the Alphas are not far behind. Add to the age differences, the new rules of diversity and inclusion, changes in life stage definitions, individual and group values, and the impact of evolving societal events. For starters, 2020 Pew Research reveals 59% of Gen Zers say forms or online…

Kevin Novak
October 13, 2021
Ideas and Innovations Newsletter

Ideas and Innovations Newsletter: The Next-Gen Is Changing Up the Workplace

The Next-Gen Is Changing Up the Workplace Welcome to 2040’s high-level Thought Leadership Series exploring key issues and trends facing organizations post-pandemic … and beyond. Millennials and Gen Z make up around half of today’s global workforce and they bring a different mindset to any business table, plus they are establishing new laws of organizational loyalty. Covid has made more and more people, across generations rethink what really matters. The consequence of this self-assessment is potentially a career change.  Anthony…

Kevin Novak
May 26, 2021
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