I open the New Year drawing from Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr, who suggested: “Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose.” 

In my previous column (The Great Resignation, July 2022, https://bit.ly/3vBj0dI), I wrote of the passion for, and importance of this thing they call work. 

While media outlets reported 68.9 million people left their jobs in 2021, 75 million people started new jobs. 

In the year ahead, let’s be the leaders that we are expected to be. Let us demonstrate our conviction, confidence, character and, above all else, compassion.

In our quest to find the cheapest, the fastest, the leanest, in our search for optimization did we overplay our card?

Too much leadership today focuses exclusively on the here and now, and too many leaders push the hot button of the day — the “cause de jure” if you will.

The Wholesaler invited me to write my quarterly column for another year. It is an honor and while they have been great partners and editors, I did hesitate.