The next disruption: Cost Control A perfect storm of macroeconomic impacts from the pandemic could challenge the ambition and agility of businesses in the ‘next normal’. Rising inflation, interest, and taxes combined with shortages in supply chains and labor markets is creating a potential tsunami of cost control issues not seen since the late 1970’s. Deferred or … [Read more...] about A Perfect Storm?
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Unusual Gratitude for Thanksgiving 2021
Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow. Melody Beattie Top 5 things to be Thankful for in 2021 #5 - Thankful for the transparency of thoughts More than anytime in history, the challenges of the pandemic exposed the hearts and minds of the people around us. Their thoughts, motives, and beliefs, were put on full … [Read more...] about Unusual Gratitude for Thanksgiving 2021
The Cancer in our Community
A creative writing essay I wrote while struggling with two family members battling cancer, during a time of divisiveness caused by the Covid pandemic. There is a cancer of divisiveness growing inside our communities. It alters our healthy unity of purpose and attacks our reason and rationale. It divides our country by replacing compassion and concern with conceit and … [Read more...] about The Cancer in our Community