The Role of Technology

In 1908, the United States started a continuous application of water chlorination at the Boonton Reservoir in New Jersey. The technology spread first across the United States, and later across developed nations.

Clean water, filtered, and disinfected has saved countless lives.

Three trends challenge the traditional definitions of the manager role:

1. The normalisation of remote work. Managers start to shift their focus more on the outputs of employees and less on the processes used to produce them.
2. Acceleration in the use of ...

Metaphors, like “trickle-down economics” and “red wall,” help frame the issues and also our responses to social and political discussions.

When politicians compare the national economy to a household budget, they want us to think in specific ways about national debt or policies of aust...