What's Holding You Back? 2040's Ideas and Innovations, Issue 81

What’s Holding You Back?

Issue 81, Nov 10, 2022

An important part of 2040’s practice with our clients is to use an open mind in applying intelligence and solutions from one sector to another. The concept of systems thinking is to look at the world holistically and find the intersections of new ideas and trends that paint a larger picture of an organizational landscape.

By habit, we often become so focused on the day-to-day and keeping our nose to the grindstone that we don’t notice what’s around us. At 2040, we stress the importance of looking outside-in, a reverse perspective from being mired in the day-to-day hot mess of our lives trapped in our own version of reality that typically reflects institutional/legacy knowledge.

Taking the outside-in approach opens the window to consider how others perceive an organization and its offerings, which may b…