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Reflections, Thank-you(s) and Rethinking the Future

Supply Chain Shaman

While the push in the back office was for efficiency–larger batch sizes, transactional processing, lower costs of transportation, and labor arbitrage strategies (Many companies outsourced the back office to India.)–the My first thank-you note is to the United States military.

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The Weight of Memory

Tailwind

United States. November the 11 th is Veterans Day in the United States. But it was the Vietnam Memorial that hit me the most; the way it slopes up to a significant height in the middle and then back down, representing time – the duration of the involvement of the United States from the early 1960s through to 1973.

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