It’s been a tough few years for people who own or manage a business.

The pandemic both reduced the available workforce and accelerated online sales. Warehouse operations grew and had to handle increased volume with fewer employees. Prior to Covid-19, the answer to this problem was to hire more fork truck drivers.

More than a half-million healthcare workers in the United States have quit their jobs in recent months, driven to the breaking point by the Covid-19

Adapted from Navigate the Swirl by Richard Hawkes, CEO of Growth River

In 1985, about the time I was discovering there was a better way to produce products, The Natural, a film about an aging baseball player with extraordinary talent, was garnering multiple Academy Awards.

To combat Covid-19 amid supply shortages in 2020, healthcare facilities across the United States resorted to disinfecting personal protective equipment (PPE), such as N95 masks, for reuse with methods such as ultraviolet (UV) light.

As a late Boomer, I can say my particular age group is better positioned than any to marvel at and bemoan what’s become of journalism and publishing in the last 40 years.

Standard image sensors, like the billion or so already installed in practically every smartphone in use today, capture light intensity and color.

The future of work—of hybrid and fully remote workers—will require upskilling of employees for organizations that wish to succeed in the post-Covid world.

At some point, every medical device company will encounter an issue that requires an internal investigation.