PinnedIdeas + Innovations from 2040, Issue 13: Playbook for Thriving Post-PandemicThe Criticality of Agility and Resiliency in 2021 and Beyond — Agility-Resilience: The Post-Pandemic Model There is a new organizational model in town: the agility-resilience construct. Agility is active, resilience is reactive. And when you combine them, you’ve got an organizational performance that is highly competitive. How do you do that? It requires quick decision-making and critical thinking. …Resilience10 min read
6 days ago2040’s Ideas and Innovations Newsletter, Issue 56: How Illusion and Delusion Derail OrganizationsIssue 56: May 19, 2022 Two colleagues just attended their monthly executive committee meeting. One is the chief revenue officer of the organization, and the other is the head of marketing. The organization is struggling with diminishing membership revenues and sponsorship sales are running behind. The salesperson gave an upbeat…Transformation13 min read
May 122040’s Ideas and Innovations Newsletter, Issue 55: Leading with Courage ReduxWhen we published the Leading with Courage newsletter last Fall, we were still emerging from the worst of the pandemic, slightly dazed and confused. We were facing a perfect storm that tested our resolve and creativity in leading our way to the future. Today, the entire world has seemingly collectively…Leadership2 min read
May 52040’s Ideas and Innovations Newsletter, Issue 54: Why Does Context Matter for 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…Transformation9 min read
Apr 282040’s Ideas and Innovations Newsletter, Issue 53: Are You Holding Everyone Back?Process, Planning and Response Some people are quick processors, others way slower. Some people are decisive, others less so. Some people thrive on structure, others won’t be boxed in. And some people are planners, others can’t be bothered. …Process8 min read
Apr 212040’s Ideas and Innovations Newsletter, Issue 52: Transitioning, Under Pressure … or VoluntarilyAre You Ready for Transition and Reinvention? Does this sound familiar? You have spent most of your professional life perfecting who you are and have chosen to become. It’s a significant investment to fine-tune a life that conforms to your beliefs, hopes and dreams. Then wham! You have become marginal, or even worse, irrelevant. Suddenly (although it…Transformation9 min read
Apr 142040’s Ideas and Innovations Newsletter, Issue 51: Why Do We Struggle with White Space?The Fear of a Blank Canvas Issue 51: April 14, 2022 Here’s an existential question: How do you fill an empty/white space? Spoiler alert: First, ask yourself is it worth filling? Second, is what you’re filling it with valuable, relevant and meaningful? …Transformation13 min read
Apr 72040’s Ideas and Innovations Newsletter, Issue 50: What Keeps You from Attaining Goals?Issue 50: April 7, 2022 Any transformation, transition or change requires setting and attaining goals. But does the end justify the means? In other words, do we focus so acutely on the goals we set that we lose sight of whether the goals move us forward to what we aspire…Intentions14 min read
Mar 312040’s Ideas and Innovations Newsletter, Issue 49: Why Is Good Data Vital Currency and Bad Data a Disaster?We often talk about the common problem of collecting massive amounts of data without a strategy to transform it into intelligent action-oriented insights. We are all drowning in data as technology and digital interactions have allowed us to collect and store more data and offer access to it. Given the…Datadriventransformation12 min read
Mar 242040’s Ideas and Innovations Newsletter, Issue 48: Do You Measure Outputs or Outcomes?Do You Measure by Outputs or Outcomes? Issue 48: March 24, 2022 How do you and your organization measure accomplishments and achievements? In an Industrial Age mindset, output was believed to be the only measure as maximizing production efficiency became something close to a religious mantra. In today’s Knowledge Age era, outcome, actually accomplishing a strategy or…Outcomes Measurement9 min read