#435 – VUCAN LIFE CHALLENGES – GREG HUTCHINS PE CERM

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Don’t lament so much about how your career is going to turn out. You don’t have a career. You have a life. Do the work. Keep the faith.
Cheryl Strayed – Writer

Millennial workers from 18 to 37 are twice as likely to be uncomfortable with VUCA. Dictionary.com says “the world Gen Z has inherited is one of unprecedented chaos.” (1) Millennials and Gen Z workers may be the new precariat. Continue reading

#434 – AI DISRUPTION IN POLITICS AND GOVERNMENT – CAPERS JONES

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Artificial intelligence (AI) is one of the most rapidly expanding technologies in human history.  It is also a disruptive technology that can do harm as well as good.  An emerging use of artificial intelligence will be for politics and government operations. Continue reading

#434 – LIFE TESTING STARTING POINT – FRED SCHENKELBERG

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Reliability or life testing involves estimating the expected durability over time of an item.

This may be an entire system, a product, or an individual component. We may also focus on an element of a component, such has a material property.

At the end of the testing, we want to say something meaningful about the expected performance over time. Continue reading

#434 – WHAT’S YOUR BUSINESS DIRECTION AND FIGURING IT OUT – DAVID ROSS PH.D.

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It is so easy for me to remember leaving an old employer’s large meeting room, gauging the reaction of my colleagues to “the launch of our new plan” for the company. It was easy because they all had the same response as I had to the CEO’s spiel: confusion and bewilderment.

“[With a giggle and shake of the head] Don’t ask me what that was all about. But, what I can tell you is that was an hour I will never get back.” Continue reading

#434 – CALIFORNIA CLIMATE ACCOUNTABILITY – KELLY EISENHARDT

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On the 7 October 2023, Governor Newsom signed into law two new mandates that are unparalleled to any in the nation, California SB 253 and SB 261. The purpose of both laws is to bring more transparency to the public regarding the contributions big business makes to climate change.

It is acknowledged that California’s law will be stricter than the impending Securities and Exchange Commission’s ruling on Climate Disclosure. Continue reading