The Perfect Storm to End an era of CHEAP
In summary, you and I likely witnessed the cheapest phase of human industrialized history. Cheap was made possible by plentiful and freshly-leveraged foreign labor, abundant food and energy, powerful computing and internet connectivity, imbalanced environmental standards, cheap freight and affordable housing. We have reached a cathartic limit. Global powers will use trade (reward) or boycott (punishment) as the behaviors of totalitarian regimes become harder to ignore — and now we must pay for all of the value received that includes the past and present cost of politics, wars, poor planning and bad policy. Going forward, it will matter more to be energy-efficient, locally-sourced, automated, robotic, smaller and nimble.
This is more than a tribute; it’s a personal challenge. When a man or woman announces their pending retirement, a sudden measurement occurs — and this one is big — a giant legacy. David Boren, President of the University of Oklahoma, announced this week he intends to...
With predictions of flooding over a week in advance, and as heavy rain was falling, there was a pivotal moment of conversation when the big decision was made. It may have been an afterthought or the issue could have been overthought — but the initial result is the...
Sales drives all success. Mike discusses the difficulties in managing sales and salespeople and features sales expert Patrick Spaan to review how great sales results are created in business.
