Trust is the foundation of business and commerce. Every transaction, partnership, and working relationship depends, to some degree, on confidence that others will deliver on their commitments.

In business, we often focus on customer trust that products and services will meet their needs and expectations. But that’s only part of the picture. Employees need confidence in…

Manufacturing has a people problem, but not in the way we usually talk about it.

We talk about the skilled-labor shortage. We talk about retirements. We talk about doing more with fewer people. Usually those are treated as separate problems.

They aren’t. Rather, they are compounding.

Deloitte and The Manufacturing…

Extreme heat, drought, wildfires, floods, record-low rivers, and rising energy demand have defined much of the summer of 2026. But for businesses, the important story isn’t simply that weather records are being broken. It’s where those physical changes enter the operating system of a company.

A drought can become a transportation problem. A heat wave can become an energy and…