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Ideas and Innovations Newsletter

How Human Emotion, Identity, and History Shape Decisions

How Human Emotion, Identity, and History Shape Decisions Issue 224, August 7, 2025 It is human emotion, identity and history that shape our culture and inform our decisions. So, here’s a question that should keep every leader awake at night: In an era where data-driven decision-making and AI-powered analytics lead strategy, why do so many consequential business choices still get made in conference rooms based on gut feelings, unspoken fears, and organizational memories? There appears to be an ongoing debate…

Kevin Novak
August 7, 2025
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How Clock Time Reshaped the World and Work

How Clock Time Reshaped the World and Work Issue 146, February 8, 2024 We think it’s safe to say that most of us take clock time for granted.  Timepieces are ubiquitous; they are on our stoves, microwaves, refrigerators, walls, radios, wrists, and mobile phones. From 1300 to 1600, they were the centerpiece of small towns placed on towers and public buildings, which dramatically changed how people ordered their lives. So fast forward and timepieces have become so affordable and mobile…

Kevin Novak
February 8, 2024
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Can You Imagine Living Only in the Past? – Ideas and Innovations from 2040

Can You Imagine Living Only in the Past? Issue 109, May 18, 2023 What if there were term limits on your ideas, thoughts, hopes and dreams? What if you reached a point in your life where you learned nothing new and were limited by your past experiences and body of knowledge? And if this were the case, and you led an organization, you might become irrelevant pretty quickly since you wouldn’t have the knowledge and scope to address today’s issues…

Kevin Novak
May 18, 2023
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ChatGPT: Shapeshifting Our World – Ideas and Innovations from 2040

ChatGPT: Shapeshifting Our World Issue 95, February 16, 2023 If you’ve been paying even a nanosecond of attention to the tech news headlines, you might think the universe shifted on November 30, 2022, when OpenAI introduced its natural language, generative program that produces text and images in response to user prompts, ChatGPT. Yes, we know that everyone under the tech corridors’ suns have weighed in on its disruption.  And guess what, we’re going to as well, and as you will…

Kevin Novak
February 15, 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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