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Ideas + Innovations from 2040, Issue 13: Playbook for Thriving Post-Pandemic

The 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. …

Resilience

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Ideas + Innovations from 2040, Issue 13: Playbook for Thriving Post-Pandemic
Ideas + Innovations from 2040, Issue 13: Playbook for Thriving Post-Pandemic
Resilience

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Spring Awakening: Assessing Your Leadership Skills for Change and Transformation, 2040’s Ideas and Innovations Newsletter, Issue 110

Issue 110, May 25, 2023 It’s Spring and we are coming up on a major holiday weekend where we hope for good weather and time outdoors with family and friends. At 2040 we’re feeling optimistic and seeking opportunities for renewal (even escape) as we see the landscape around us come…

Transformation

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Spring Awakening: Assessing Your Leadership Skills for Change and Transformation, 2040’s Ideas and…
Spring Awakening: Assessing Your Leadership Skills for Change and Transformation, 2040’s Ideas and…
Transformation

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May 18

Can You Imagine Living Only in the Past? 2040’s Ideas and Innovations Newsletter, Issue 109

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? …

Transformation

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Can You Imagine Living Only in the Past? 2040’s Ideas and Innovations Newsletter, Issue 109
Can You Imagine Living Only in the Past? 2040’s Ideas and Innovations Newsletter, Issue 109
Transformation

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May 11

Are You Making Faulty Assumptions? Part II, 2040’s Ideas and Innovations Newsletter, Issue 108

Issue 108, May 11, 2023 Last week we explored how making bad assumptions can derail a business model and debilitate a team. Operational assessment and readiness can fall victim overnight based on assumptions that are out of alignment with shared purpose and market orientation. As we have stated, often the…

Leadership

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Are You Making Faulty Assumptions? Part II, 2040’s Ideas and Innovations Newsletter, Issue 108
Are You Making Faulty Assumptions? Part II, 2040’s Ideas and Innovations Newsletter, Issue 108
Leadership

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May 4

What Happens When You Make Assumptions? Can Your Organization Succeed? 2040’s Ideas and Innovations Newsletter, Issue 106

Issue 106, May 4, 2023 Does your organization have what it takes to succeed? For example, how many times a day do you make an assumption? On a scale of magnitude, perhaps it’s the assumption that the sun will rise each morning and gravity will still be in place at…

Reality

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What Happens When You Make Assumptions?
What Happens When You Make Assumptions?
Reality

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Apr 27

What Do Top Performing Organizations Get Right? 2040’s Ideas and Innovations Newsletter, Issue 105

Issue 105, April 27, 2023 For anyone that insists on predictability and familiar expectations, today’s disruptive marketplace can throw a wrench into a rigid planner’s world. Will there be a recession? Is inflation going to abate? Are current economic conditions the new normal? Will customers continue to pull back on…

Culture

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What Do Top Performing Organizations Get Right? 2040’s Ideas and Innovations Newsletter, Issue 105
What Do Top Performing Organizations Get Right? 2040’s Ideas and Innovations Newsletter, Issue 105
Culture

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Apr 20

Why You Need to Listen to Gen Z, 2040’s Ideas and Innovations Newsletter, Issue 104

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…

Generation Z

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Why You Need to Listen to Gen Z, 2040’s Ideas and Innovations Newsletter, Issue 104
Why You Need to Listen to Gen Z, 2040’s Ideas and Innovations Newsletter, Issue 104
Generation Z

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Apr 13

The Distortion of Time and Unintended Consequences for Transformation, 2040’s Ideas and Innovations Newsletter, Issue 103

Issue 103, April 13, 2023 With our celebration and awe of emerging tech (think generative AI), there is a basic issue that we rarely consider: the distortion of time. What we mean is that we are in such a hurry to develop and adopt new tech that we frequently leapfrog…

Change

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The Distortion of Time and Unintended Consequences for Transformation, 2040’s Ideas and Innovations…
The Distortion of Time and Unintended Consequences for Transformation, 2040’s Ideas and Innovations…
Change

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Apr 6

The Future of Personal Agency (Influencing One’s Own Actions in the Age of AI), 2040’s Ideas and Innovations Newsletter, Issue 102

Issue 102, April 6, 2023 It can’t come as a surprise that many people feel they are losing their sense of personal agency in the face of such rapid technological change, global disruptions and polarized social and political factions. Personal agency? It’s a “sense that I am the one who…

AI

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The Future of Personal Agency (Influencing One’s Own Actions in the Age of AI), 2040’s Ideas and…
The Future of Personal Agency (Influencing One’s Own Actions in the Age of AI), 2040’s Ideas and…
AI

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Mar 30

What Were They Thinking? 2040’s Ideas and Innovations Newsletter, Issue 101

Issue 101, March 30, 2023 Jared Diamond, author of Collapse, asked a profound question referring to the ancients in Easter Island. When they cut down the last tree on the island, what were they thinking? Seriously, what sane society would make a valuable natural resource extinct with one final hatchet…

Decision Making

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What Were They Thinking? 2040’s Ideas and Innovations Newsletter, Issue 101
What Were They Thinking? 2040’s Ideas and Innovations Newsletter, Issue 101
Decision Making

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Kevin Novak

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4X webby winner, CEO and Chief Strategy Officer @2040 Digital (www.2040digital.com), IADAS Member, Speaker, Author, Science Nut

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