State of Readiness; Daniel Bumblauskas, Ph.D., COVID-19 as a “Black Swan” event

State of Readiness; Daniel Bumblauskas, Ph.D., COVID-19 as a “Black Swan” event

Daniel has spent his entire professional and personal career in the field of Industrial Engineers.  In this episode, we explore the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, a “Black Swan” event, on the way businesses might operate post-pandemic.   We start by discussing how telephony in education and the corporate world will be embraced more readily…

The Outliers Inn; How I spent my COVID-19 Vacation

The Outliers Inn; How I spent my COVID-19 Vacation

Topic: With everyone in the world being locked-down, bored  rigid with nothing much better to do and in desperate need of speaking with someone other than their significant other or dog, it’s a full-house at The Outliers Inn with guests who hail from the States, the UK, Germany, and Iceland being represented.  The episode is long,…

The Risks that go with Globalization

The Risks that go with Globalization

It is undoubtedly and incontrovertibly true that global extreme poverty has declined as capitalism has driven globalization – the trade between and among nations – to increase over time.  Certainly, there are arguments to be made that the growth in wealth has also been increasingly concentrated in the hands of fewer people, but the world as a whole has…