Breaking News: Fresh Evidence In The Pharma Heist Case

OK, I know it's Labor Day; pushing the latest blog out of the nest is not exactly work.  But, this couldn't wait.  It is now clear that the missing stupid pills have leached into some supplies of drinking water.  Check your reservoirs, people!

I should not have been startled to learn that many folks actually believe that contestants on ABC's amusing summer entertainment, Whodunnit?, were, in fact, being killed off.  This, despite their appearance at the end of each episode, in full demise makeup, talking about the experience.  More startling was the realization that very few appeared to be outraged in any degree that a powerful entertainment machine was being permitted to kill with impunity.

My guess is that the same gang, all of whom vote, by the way, subscribe to a range of theories about Area 51, the grassy knoll, and our simulated moon landing on a secret sound stage somewhere.  I'll further speculate that they almost universally believe that an app is what you eat before attacking the dead chicken entree at their neighborhood Ruby Tuesday's.

All this comes to mind as we contemplate the conundrum of unemployed supply chain professionals in a time of companies' desperate searches for capable suppy chain talent.  How is it that so many of the people facing career transition continue to be in denial regarding the sea changes occurring over the past couple of decades?

Resume formats and content that were de rigeur in the past are, today, either laughable or disregraded.  Yesterday's in-demand functional skills now count for far less than global perspectives and a grasp of enterprise performance context for supply chain roles and functions.  Never mind that the range of so-called "soft" skills demanded in the current market were either non-existent or lightly dismissed in the not-so-long-ago last century.

We, in the collective, need to get our heads around these, and similar, realities if we hope to be part of the supply chain revolution that is sweeping through enlightened businesses.  And, we need to show our between-jobs colleagues how to deal with this-century issues.  In addition, for a very few, it is perfectly all right to reassure them that it's not real blood coursing down the halls of Rue Manor.