Like many of you, I’m a ‘morning person’ meaning I go to sleep early and rise early to start my day. When challenged with a big project, my preference is to wake up early and get to work to put in that long day. When it’s time to go home, I leave on time even though I may have worked extended hours by coming in very early. In discussions with persons of similar dispositions, it seems we all have one common gripe; very few people notice our extra effort. For example, we routinely may come in hour...

As an auditor of Quality Systems and a consultant, I find myself in a unique position to observe the evolving conditions of many companies both domestically and globally. A conspicuous phenomenon is that the status quo or stability in Quality Systems which existed before the covid period have been profoundly upset in the post covid era. Generally, factors which have influenced instability in Quality Systems during and since covid include: Many companies had to go into survival mode to stay in bu...