Post-Anesthesia Dementia

And, all this time you thought PAD was peripheral artery disease . . .

Mein frau, while admiring her brand-new titanium knee was recently relaxing with a bowl of oxycodone while watching a gaggle of talking heads on an un-named cable news station.  She astutely observed, and here I quote directly, "Blah, blah, blah."  I couldn't have said it better myself.

I've been halfway between amazed and amused by how quickly people in our supply chain profession seem to have picked up on the importance of collaboration in the wake of the bitter confrontations that characterized the battlefields of the Great Recession, most recently in a piece from Chainlink Research on 21 July.  It's borderline gratifying to anyone who's been preaching this gospel to the heathen masses.  But, at the same time, it's a bit frightening, too.

The cause for unease lies in the reality that "collaboration" is only a word, easy enough to toss out when one wishes to appear to be insightful and au courant. The rest of the reality is that very few folks know how to genuinely collaborate, or how to learn ways to build trust and construct meaningful communications, cornerstones of collaboration in business relationships that are more than skin deep.

There are processes, methodologies, and disciplines involved, all of them logical and time-tested, and almost none of them easy.  I hope that this will be the next dawning realization for those who are committed to do more than merely throw out the "collaboration" word to see if it sticks.