In this week's Quality Digest Live: Lean Ben Franklin... who knew? Could the root cause of some manmade catastrophes simply be a lack of basics like humility, integrity, communication, and positivity? Connected spenders is what you want.

Coffeepots and tires. All products should be built like coffeepots and tires. Awash in a sea of disposable products, these two durable goods stand out as icons of heresy against designed obsolescence.

This article is adapted from Me We Do Be: The Four Cornerstones of Success (Leadership Institute Press, 2017).

Quality management, always an FDA focus during inspections, could become even more important in 2017 as FDA priorities take shape.