Although I’m a fan of science fiction, I have to laugh at utopian predictions of global—even universal—unity and harmony. Clearly, these authors don’t read the news. In 2015, no less than 55 armed conflicts raged worldwide.
McKinsey & Co. surveyed more than 365,000 employees at 161 companies worldwide. The survey assessed how various organizational and leadership characteristics affect a company’s health.
According to the U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics, 2.3 million people are incarcerated across America. In fact, we have the highest incarceration rate in the world, at 698 per 100,000 of population.
In a strange twist to what has already been a strange and tumultuous presidential campaign season, leading Democratic can-didate Hillary Clinton and leading Republican candidate Donald Trump actually agree on an issue. Sort of.
Not many people can be said to have truly shaped the course of global manufacturing. They include Henry Ford, W. Edwards Deming and Taiichi Ohno. We lost another last month.
On Oct. 5, the United States and 11 other countries finalized the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) free-trade agreement after seven years of negotiations.