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How Understanding Personality Types Improves Team Performance

How Understanding Personality Types Improves Team Performance Issue 212, May 15, 2025 Most effective leaders have come up with a way to manage the range of personalities that make up their executive and managerial teams. Without understanding what motivates others’ behavior it leaves you prey to reacting and not being proactive in organizational and personal interactions. This may sound too simple and obvious, but we tend to hire and show favoritism to individuals who share our personality types. That may…

Kevin Novak
May 14, 2025
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Decision-Making: The Revolving Door of Organizational Centralization and Decentralization

Decision-Making: The Revolving Door of Organizational Centralization and Decentralization Issue 202, March 6, 2025 We have been keen observers of an organizational cyclical pattern to solve problems that we call the revolving door of centralization and decentralization. Organizations across many industries experience this recurring pattern, shifting between these two organizational constructs. Counterintuitively, organizations seem to repeat the cycle every few years, often framed as a novel strategic solution to operational challenges. A decentralized approach fails. Centralize. A centralized function becomes…

Kevin Novak
March 6, 2025
Ideas and Innovations Newsletter

Why the Road to Transformation Can Be Surprising

Why the Road to Transformation Can Be Surprising Issue 189, December 5, 2024 Transformation is not a straight line. If you’re a sailor, you tack to the future unless you have a full tailwind. If you’re the turtle, you can out-navigate the hare. If you are the architect of your career, you use the career portfolio strategy to build a professional life on your terms. If you are a well-being advisor (think Deepak Chopra), you could redefine the perception of…

Kevin Novak
December 4, 2024
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The Power of Optimism in Organizational Storytelling

The Power of Optimism in Organizational Storytelling Issue 174, August 22, 2024 We become the stories we tell as do organizations (companies, governments, non-profits and the like). The more we tell them and elaborate on the narrative, the more we believe them to be true and represent who we are in our purpose, relationships and how we use our energy mentally and physically. These stories can become family legends, cultural origin stories, national histories, and an epic organizational tool.  Psychologist…

Kevin Novak
August 22, 2024
Ideas and Innovations Newsletter

Dynamics at Play: How to Leverage Determinants

Dynamics at Play: How to Leverage Determinants Issue 173, August 15, 2024 Last week we wrote on trends, cycles and determinants, giving a new twist on understanding the process of change and transformation. To quickly review, determinants are the underlying elements that shape cycles and ultimately determine outcomes (positive, negative or neutral). As we navigate an increasingly complex and rapidly changing world, the ability to distinguish between trends, shifts, and determinants shaping our environment becomes ever more crucial. Also important…

Kevin Novak
August 15, 2024
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