So here we are at the end of another year — by the time you read this you may have already completed your 2014 plans and budget requests (as well as your fallback budgets and plans). The drive for greater efficiency (energy, operational, and staffing) is now ingrained into almost every business plan and conversation, so you might as well get used to it.
Before writing this column, I was browsing thought Netflix and wound up watching the 1980s movie “The Right Stuff,” described as “The story of the bravery of the original U.S. Mercury 7 astronauts as they faced the lack of real knowledge when men first went into space in 1961-3.” So 50 years later what does this have to do with wrapping up 2013 and looking forward?