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Why Doing the Right Thing Is So Hard

Why Doing the Right Thing Is So Hard Issue 220, July 10, 2025 Imagine that you live and work in a surveillance state—a place where things just happen with no explanation, people show up and disappear, everyone is being watched, everything is being reported, and no one can be trusted. Surveillance disintegrates trust, making people anxious, paranoid, and mistrustful. It creates a climate where fear overrides integrity and self-preservation stifles action. In Hamlet, Denmark was such a surveillance state, and…

Kevin Novak
July 9, 2025
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Mastering the Art of Decision-Making: Part One

Mastering the Art of Decision-Making: Part One Issue 196, January 23, 2025 Uncertainty has become a defining characteristic of both our personal and professional lives in today’s rapidly changing unpredictable world. Stated simply, uncertainty is a certainty. From navigating disruptive markets and responding to global crises to contending with career challenges and family issues, decision-making under pressure has become a persistent and constant reality. Consider those impacted by the ongoing wildfires in California who were instantly thrown into uncertainty when…

Kevin Novak
January 20, 2025
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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
Ideas and Innovations Newsletter

Why Strategic Re-Think Is Today’s Prerequisite Strategy

Why Strategic Re-Think Is Today’s Prerequisite Strategy Issue 158, May 2, 2024 Although it seems counterintuitive in today’s dynamically changing marketplace, many organizations still live, breathe, and sometimes die by their static three- or five-year strategic plans. It takes so much work and time to develop these long-term plans, often structured more as a laundry list of aspirations, that they are hard to let go of. This multi-year term model is often disconnected from the actual capability or capacity of…

Kevin Novak
May 2, 2024
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

2040’s Ideas and Innovations: Why Does Context Matter to Every Individual and Organization?

Why Does Context Matter to Every Individual and Organization? Issue 54: May 5, 2022 In times of uncertainty and ambiguity, context is essential to providing clarity in communications and interpersonal relations – both personal and professional. It has become a challenge to understand others when there is an abundance of misinformation and personal spin on the facts. Even more confusing, history is recorded according to the historian’s context, which can be a highly personal interpretation. Worst case, the lack of…

Kevin Novak
May 5, 2022
Ideas and Innovations Newsletter

Ideas + Innovations from 2040: Communication Theory

Communication Theory With the increasing influence of digital technologies, we are becoming slaves to our devices – at work and at home. And most of us are unaware of how our behaviors are changing as a result of the proliferation of digital platforms and our near-constant use of them. What’s more, our communication skills and styles are evolving in lockstep with digital systems and processes, often out of necessity, conformance and avoidance of physical interaction. We often don’t realize how…

Kevin Novak
December 9, 2021
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