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Being Human in the Age of AI: Where We Are Heading Now and into 2035 Issue 209, April 24, 2025 If you’ve been working with any Large Language Model (LLM) – ChatGPT, Claude, et al. – you’ve probably noticed how weirdly polite and eager to please these tools are. That’s no surprise because they are trained to please you. It’s refreshing to have a handy research tool that responds like a friendly, faithful dog within seconds. It makes it tempting…

Kevin Novak

April 24, 2025

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Ideas and Innovations Newsletter

Is This Us?

Is This Us? Issue 141, January 4, 2024 If you just landed on the planet from elsewhere, or you are a student of modern media, you might believe that America is polarized, disappointed, angry, mentally ill, always dancing in front of its mobile phones, and with a chip on its shoulder. Is this really us? Is this who we are? The issue is whether our actions, beliefs, and values are representative of who’ve always been. Or in the current fractious…

Kevin Novak

January 4, 2024

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Ideas and Innovations Newsletter

Bias Revisited

Bias Revisited Issue 137, November 30, 2023 If you have been following our newsletters, you know that we have a fascination about bias. In fact, from our observations about workplace dysfunction, leadership disconnect, market orientation dislocation, and digital transformation gone awry, conscious, or subconscious bias is usually at the root of the problem. It may sound simplistic, but what we don’t know we don’t know can shortstop the best of intentions and the most optimistic plans. When we think of…

Kevin Novak

November 29, 2023

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Ideas and Innovations Newsletter

What Would You Do?

What Would You Do? Issue 128, September 28, 2023 We’ve all been in business situations that are uncomfortable, confrontational, and dysfunctional. Even after spending decades building a career, we can get a curveball that puts us in an untenable position. In our newsletters we seek to surface new ideas and realities of the workplace, always recognizing that the human factor is always of paramount importance and influence. It is our intention to help you and your organization manage change, successfully…

Kevin Novak

September 28, 2023

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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