Straight talk on talent from the people leading it.

Talent & Leadership

Hire for Attitude, Not the Resume

Dave’s best hire ever had a quarter-page resume. He explains why attitude beats job history every time — and how to spot it in the first five minutes of an interview.

Talent & Leadership

Hire for Two Jobs Ahead

Gen Z won’t stay if they’re bored. Dave makes the case for hiring with a two-position trajectory in mind and why chasing the career always beats chasing the paycheck.

Talent & Leadership

Trust, Integrity & Courage: The Non-Negotiables

Three traits Dave won’t compromise on when building a supply chain team. The catch: good data is only 50% accurate, so courage matters as much as analysis.

Talent & Leadership

75% Turnover in Year One

Three out of four employees who aren’t growing leave within their first 12 months. Dave and Scotty break down what that costs — and what organizations need to do differently before day one.

Talent & Leadership

Mentorship Should Never Be Structured

Dave still has 12+ active mentees, all informal. He explains why structured mentoring programs miss the point — and why the best relationships always go both ways.

Talent & Leadership

Own Your Career (The One Who Got Away)

A high-potential hospital employee asked for more. His boss said no. He left the industry. Dave tells the story of what happens when leaders fail to see who’s sitting right in front of them.

Talent & Leadership

I Can’t Afford to Lose Him

Dave spots a standout data analyst on a plant floor and tells his manager to put him on an accelerated path. The manager’s response reveals the most common leadership mistake in supply chain.

Talent & Leadership

What Case Competitions Reveal About Talent

Case competitions show you things a resume never will — how candidates think, handle pressure, and collaborate under uncertainty. What hiring managers should actually be watching for.

Talent & Leadership

The Nurse Staffing Squeeze

The nursing shortage isn’t just a numbers problem — it’s a structural one. Why traditional recruiting approaches aren’t built for the pace and volume healthcare now demands.

Talent & Leadership

The Healthcare Hiring Catch-22

Healthcare organizations need experienced talent but won’t hire without it. The cycle keeping the industry stuck — and what it takes to break it.

Supply Chain Operations

Why a Small Recall Becomes a Massive One

Most recalls don’t start big — they start with a documentation gap or a missed inspection. How supply chain visibility determines whether a quality issue stays contained or spirals.

Supply Chain Operations

Clinical and Commercial Supply Chains Don’t Talk

Clinical supply is built for flexibility. Commercial supply is built for volume. When they don’t share data, both suffer. What changes when they finally do.

Supply Chain Operations

Bringing Commercial Into R&D Early

By the time commercial supply chain gets involved, most cost decisions have already been made. The case for pulling them in at the start of development — not the end.

Supply Chain Operations

What Good Outsourcing Looks Like (and What Goes Wrong)

Outsourcing isn’t the problem. Bad outsourcing is. What separates a partnership that works from one that creates more risk than it solves.

Supply Chain Operations

The Freezer That Killed a Product

One failed cold storage unit. One product write-off. How a single point of failure in temperature-controlled logistics can take down an entire launch.

Supply Chain Operations

5,000 Surgical Knives

An inventory audit reveals 5,000 surgical knives no one ordered and no one is using. How over-procurement happens — and what it signals about the health of a supply chain.

Supply Chain Operations

Custom Packs & Outsourcing the Assembly

Custom surgical packs seem like a smart efficiency play — until the assembly gets outsourced wrong. What to look for before you hand off that level of complexity.

Supply Chain Operations

The Storage Room Full of Waste

A walk through a hospital storage room tells you everything about how well supply chain is being managed. What good waste reduction actually requires — and who owns it.

Industry Trends

The AI Layoff Myth

The media blamed AI for 25,000 layoffs. Dave explains what actually happened — and what AI really does (and doesn’t do) in supply chain operations.

Industry Trends

Pharma & Med Device Are Colliding

Two industries that used to operate separately are converging fast. What’s driving the collision and what it means for supply chains built for only one of them.

Industry Trends

The Combination-Product Dating Problem

Combination products sit between drug and device regulation — and that ambiguity creates real supply chain headaches. How companies are navigating the grey zone.

Industry Trends

Pricing Pressure & the Ozempic Example

GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic exposed how fragile healthcare pricing assumptions can be. What happens to supply chain when demand spikes past every model anyone built.

Industry Trends

Heat-Mapping Patient Need, Personalized Medicine & the Data Gap

Personalized medicine requires knowing where patients are and what they need. The data to support that doesn’t always exist — and building it is harder than most organizations expect.

Industry Trends

Stuck at Stage Two: Healthcare’s Digital Stall

Healthcare has adopted digital tools, but most organizations are stuck at basic implementation. What stage two actually looks like — and what’s blocking the move to three.