If you’re like many leaders, you are knee-deep in preparing strategies and tactics to drive success in the new fiscal year.

No matter where you’re located, you might think that Schneider Electric is a native company. It’s an easy assumption to make.

It’s often difficult to pinpoint the exact moment when things change, but it usually happens faster than one imagines. Old technology gets replaced by new innovations; first by early adopters, and then, suddenly, by everyone.

Productivity matters. It matters a lot. Yet it often seems that folks talk about productivity but don’t do anything about it.

Let’s assume that you want to delegate a task that’s been sitting on your desk since forever. You know what needs to get done and have (finally) found (and trained) the right person to do it. Let’s call this person Sally.

Measurement is often seen as nonvalue-added work. However, if we properly account for the expected costs involved in passing defects on to customers, then the increased value of the product can be clearly shown.

In May 2019, a California jury found Monsanto’s weed killer, Roundup, to be a “substantial factor” in the cancer suffered by a couple and ordered the U.S. agrochemical company to pay them $2 billion in damages.

What good is it?

Any patient scheduled for surgery hopes, and maybe assumes, that his surgeon will do a high-quality job. Surgeons know better.

So it seems the contentious wall along our southern border, variously known as the Trump wall or the Mexico-United States barrier,