A notification from Apple’s new iPhone sleep tracking app recently popped up with good news for one of our team members: “Congratulations: Your sleeping heart rate is lower than average compared to other people your age.” Well, hooray, we guess. Lower sleeping heart rates were

Sometimes it takes a pandemic for people to help make a point.  For years now, we have talked about the tradeoff between managing for optimal inventory versus optimal availability. Typically, those goals compete against each other. Increase stock on hand, and your inventory costs go

 In an episode of her podcast, The Happiness Lab, Yale psychology researcher Dr. Laurie Santos encourages listeners to reconsider the supposed “power of positive thinking.”  There’s a long-held idea that we can will ourselves to success with the right attitude—most famously in Norman Vincent Peale’s book of the

Leave it to our contrarian investment friends at Chenmark Capital Management to find a lesson for innovators in plain sight on the bathroom counter. Recently, they republished a post about the Q-tips paradox. It goes like this: In the near century since Leo Gerstenzang invented the ready-to-use cotton swab

For several years, visibility and its associated technologies have been at the top of Gartner’s “User Wants and Needs” and “Gartner Predicts” surveys.  In the current time of COVID-disrupted supply chains, those “wants and needs” have gotten a lot less theoretical and a lot more real. With