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  Everyone experiences good or bad luck at some point in their lives, like being born into a loving or not so loving family. This ‘blind luck’ just happens to us, with us having no control over it. But there’s another form of luck – ‘smart luck,’ or serendipity – that we can influence. What…

Leaders who don’t pause to reflect, leaning instead on endless cycles of acting and re-acting without first thinking, often run into trouble. True leaders ponder issues before acting or re-acting. This reflection, in its simplest definition, is akin to time-thinking. Knowledge is the residue of thinking. The results of knowledge-thinking are new alternatives, perspectives, and…

  Earlier this month, Albertsons’ CEO, Vivek Sankaran, said that the US grocer had been struggling with low inventory for months. Just about the time he thought their supply chain issues were resolved, the Omicron spike put them back where they were six months ago. Albertsons has no stores outside the US. So is Sankaran…

Boris Johnson, UK Prime Minister, was forced this week to apologise to Parliament and to the UK people for attending a party in the gardens of No. 10 Downing Street during last year’s lockdown, which he later described as a “work function” in a feeble attempt to justify his error of committing acts that the…

For most businesses, the five greatest expenses are: staff, physical location, capital equipment, development costs, and Cost of Goods Sold (aka: Inventory). In short, after a business’ staffing, the next largest cost is Facilities.  What we have seen so far are the most drastic cuts in staffing since the Great Depression.  Cuts to Facilities budgets…

A report out earlier this week from the International Energy Agency (IEA) had some encouraging news in the midst of this pandemic and the associated economic fall-out. Global CO2 emissions are down to levels not seen in 10 years (8% below last year) Energy demand globally is down 3.8 percent in the first quarter with…

With the recent events concerning the spread of Covid-19, I am wondering what changes we will see in the office environment?  Both near term and long term.   How will this impact us once we return to working regularly in an office environment.  Also, how will we design new offices, in light of these events?  One…