Jobs reports that look pretty solid…and then are adjusted (negatively). Stock market booms and expands…but the economy feels a little weird. Unemployment doesn’t seem like it’s that bad…but a quick trip through LinkedIn shows so many folks with green banners searching for new gigs.
Gas is too expensive. Two wars rage on the other side of the world and the effects cascade down into the supply chain and other business aspects globally. Inflation is still stubborn. Groceries cost more now than ever before. Families are struggling in different ways.
It’s, well…it’s weird, isn’t it? For those of us that have been in the corporate arena for quite some time (author included; I’m an “elder millennial,” so, I feel a little old these days), we feel somewhat battle-tested. We’ve lived through an economic recession. We’ve traversed through the great unknowns of a global pandemic and all of its ramifications.
But this, this…feels…different. It’s almost as if we’re experiencing a golden age of innovation at the same time staring down one of the more unsettled economic periods of our lives.
Such an odd balance, for sure. So it begs the question: where do we go from here?
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