In recent times, the increase in the prices of food has been a major headline in many countries of the world. From the developing countries in Africa to the developed countries of the West, there is one common news – food inflation.
Years ago, during a family vacation, we settled into our hotel and then piled into the car to find something to eat. After the cursory “where would you like to go – I don’t care, where do you want to go?” conversation with my wife we decided on a place.
Those of us who seek – and study – human creativity are besieged with overused tropes. “Think outside the box” and “color outside the lines” are right up there in the cliché Hall of Fame. But I recently stumbled on a Japanese word: Datsuzoku.
Has it only been two years? In that time, we have changed the way we meet, the way we communicate, our work culture and in the process our work mindsets. The whirlwind brought to us by a small viral particle has changed us as leaders and employees.
The industrial manufacturing sector has always been coined the “backbone” of the US and the world. Whether it is supplying the population with goods or building integral pieces for lifesaving medical equipment, manufacturing is omnipresent in many ways.