Regardless if people run away or are enticed away, the affects on those who stay are the same: Those who are left behind lack the money, connections, or marketable skills required to make moving possible. What happens to a region when all the doctors, lawyers, and technology professionals leave? The local economy collapses, local governments fail, and services stop being delivered.

Aging business owners can’t find someone to hand the business over to when they are ready to retire. And when businesses fold and residents can’t get their car repaired, their hair cut, a meal out, or a drain unplugged, they have no choice but to leave.

When people think about the population they tend to focus on the growing global population and the environmental impacts of so many people. But that myopic perspective misses the true story.

From changing cultures to decimating economies to fueling conflicts, population shift is already driving changes for everyone. For some, the changes are subtle and difficult to see. For others, the changes are dramatic and cause dramatic disruption.

Service blueprinting is often seen as useful only for large organizations with well defined business models and product or service offerings. However, there are benefits to be realized for every size organization.

If you are like me, your LinkedIn feed is full of friends announcing they are now unemployed, victims of tech company layoffs.

These layoffs are an absolute crock.

Slow, insidious changes, all but invisible, wreak havoc that defies diagnosis and so go unchallenged