The Gap Between Politics & Common Sense The Sanity Clause 4/18/2013 (11) comments Like the casual baseball fan who doesn’t understand the infield-fly rule, normal voters – with bigger fish to fry – don’t enjoy the arcana of politics.
Price of Freedom Is Higher Than Minimum Wage The Sanity Clause 4/11/2013 (7) comments An economic model that places the lowest possible value on its highest-value component -- the toil of human beings -- is bad news for everyone.
America: Rich? Broke? Or Maybe Just 'House-Poor' The Sanity Clause 3/21/2013 (13) comments Both the federal government and the average family survive, thrive, and serve the greater good by embracing the concept of a substantial and prolonged deficit.
How to Save Money in Washington? Ask Gibbs The Sanity Clause 2/8/2013 (8) comments If government really wants to reduce the deficit and debts, it could look in some areas where programs are currently being duplicated.
The Perils of Moral Confusion The Sanity Clause 1/30/2013 (4) comments EBN's favorite myth buster goes off topic to tackle the question of morality, equality, and fairness in our society.
USPS: Courier Extraordinaire The Sanity Clause 1/23/2013 (4) comments The US Postal Service continues to deliver great service even though it's been hobbled by Congressional mandates.
Spectrum: The Invisible Grand Canyon The Sanity Clause 1/11/2013 (1) comment No free market anywhere operates prosperously without the benevolent massage of government regulators, and TV spectrum isn't different.
Shadowed by Process Rather Than Substance The Sanity Clause 12/5/2012 (4) comments The truth about economic, political, and other world events is often clouded by failure to grasp the full implications of such developments.
Death of the News The Sanity Clause 11/27/2012 (10) comments News isn't a product, nor is it reliably popular enough to generate the sales that assure profit and reward insatiable shareholders.
It Pays to Advertise, or Doesn't It? The Sanity Clause 11/21/2012 (23) comments Apple's huge growth creates the view that advertising has become superfluous, and the 2012 election campaign reinforced this perception.
The Rise & Fall of Tom Thumb The Sanity Clause 11/13/2012 (3) comments With the emergence of touchscreen tablets, the era of the blazing thumb -- and its ignorant prose style -- might be declining.
Who Are Those Guys? The Sanity Clause 11/5/2012 (3) comments Companies do a lot of things in the name of shareholders, but often, executive actions benefit only management and not investors
Hurricane Sandy, Eat This! The Sanity Clause 10/29/2012 (37) comments Hurricane Sandy barrels towards New York, but New Yorkers aren't worrying to much about it, as our resident blogger affirms.
The Unattainable Computer The Sanity Clause 10/22/2012 (17) comments There are few machines in current vogue that respond intuitively to human purposes in human terms, and Windows 8 is not an exception.
The Romney Tax Plan in Short Form The Sanity Clause 10/10/2012 (2) comments It isn't really that complicated explaining presidential contender Mitt Romney's tax plan, and someone should have spelled it out.
The Anti-Science of Anti-Regulation The Sanity Clause 10/2/2012 (2) comments Governments and companies clash frequently on business regulations, as demonstrated by recent developments in the oil and gas industry.
You Can't Tell a Candidate by the Resumé The Sanity Clause 9/18/2012 (8) comments The history of the US presidency shows the most successful leaders cannot be determined solely on the content of their curriculum vitae.
Labor Day or Arbor Day: Who Cares? The Sanity Clause 9/4/2012 (15) comments When union leaders can't count on almost two-fifths of their members, it's safe to conclude that organized labor ain't organized any more.
What the Apple-Samsung Case Wasn't About The Sanity Clause 8/27/2012 (6) comments Apple won against Samsung because of its innovation and not because it invented the wireless phone. That credit belongs to others.
The Paradox of Corporate Cleanliness The Sanity Clause 8/13/2012 (2) comments Imagine how things might look if we matched the cleanliness profile of a company's head office with that corporation's pollution record.
Banking Gloom The Sanity Clause 8/7/2012 (2) comments In order for the economy to rebound strongly, banks will have to resume traditional financial services, but it doesn't seem likely.
Why Manufacturing Matters The Sanity Clause 6/14/2012 (12) comments Anyone who doubts the link between production and technology knowhow should recall the hard lessons of American TV and steel manufacturers.
Where Did the Money Go? The Sanity Clause 5/15/2012 (10) comments US companies and the investment class are hoarding and wasting much of the productivity gains that fueled the economy's growth.
Flying the Dysfunctional Skies The Sanity Clause 5/9/2012 (22) comments Problems in the US airline market are hitting, not just passengers, but also businesses in the high-tech and manufacturing sectors.
Shrinking Steve Jobs Back to Human Scale The Sanity Clause 5/3/2012 (15) comments Tech buyers have canonized late Apple CEO Steve Jobs, but, in time, even this larger-than-life character will begin to look more human.
Contrarianism of the Ostracized Engineer The Sanity Clause 4/30/2012 (21) comments Why do so many engineers, despite their rigorous training, tend to be anti-liberalism and sometimes even reject the theory of climate change?
EBN Dialogue enables and encourages you to participate in live chats with notable leaders and luminaries. Not only editors and journalists, but the entire EBN community is able to comment and ask questions. Listed below are upcoming and archived chats.
Archived Dialogues
Thailand Stages a Comeback Join EBN contributor Jennifer Baljko on Thursday August 23, 2012, at 11:00 a.m. EST for a live chat on how electronic manufacturers in Thailand have shored up their supply chain to reduce the impact of future natural disasters.
Euro-Crisis: What It Means for High-Tech Firms Join EBN Editor in Chief Bolaji Ojo and Contributing Editor Jennifer Baljko on Thursday, July 12, at 10:00 a.m. EDT for a Live Chat on high-tech and Europe's economic difficulties.
Microsoft Surface: Potential Winners & Losers What are the implications for the electronics industry supply chain of Microsoft Corp.'s decision to launch its own tablet PC? Join industry veteran and EE Times' systems and OEM expert Rick Merritt on Tuesday, July 3, at 12:00 pm EDT for a Live Chat on this subject.
Join EBN contributor Jennifer Baljko on Thursday August 23, 2012, at 11:00 a.m. EST for a live chat on how electronic manufacturers in Thailand have shored up their supply chain to reduce the impact of future natural disasters.
Peter Drucker famously said "Trying to predict the future is like trying to drive down a country road at night with no lights while looking out the back window." Yet in the razor's-edge world of electronics—with a lean supply chain and just-in-time demands—the need to know the future is vital.
While no one really can accurately predict the future, we can take guidance from another Drucker saying which is the best way to predict the future is to create it.
You've heard the saying "the No. 1 supply chain risk is your people." That hasn't always been the case. But today's complex global supply chain requires a new type of multitalented employee. It's one who understands, finance, marketing, economics, is savvy with technology, graceful with relationships and can think analytically.
Where are these people? Are universities properly preparing the next generation supply chain professionals? How do train your existing workforce for these new, demanding positions?
Brian Fuller, editor-in-chief of EBN, will lead a 60-minute Avnet Velocity panel discussion that will ask and answer these and other questions swirling around today's supply-chain talent challenges.
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