Mona Lippman, a process specialist with Tovelman/Moore in Chicago, was injured last week when she was run over by the Curve. She was the 194th American worker hurt this year – compared to 112 for all of 2015.
Staying ahead of the Curve is one of the top four skill sets essential to success today – along with maximizing synergies, looking at the big picture and postponing meetings – so companies encourage employees to keep it at bay.
“When I checked three days ago I couldn’t even see it,” says Lippman. “Then all of a sudden it was right on top of me.”
Looking every three days is a problem, says noted Curve analyst Steve Micklin of the Bopp-Shudd Institute.
“In today’s tumultuous business environment, the Curve has become increasingly unpredictable,” he says. “People should be looking looking every day, even every hour, no matter what else they have going on.” He says that Lippman is lucky she suffered only slight cuts and bruises, and that she might not be so fortunate next time.
While Micklin acknowledges that reduced staffs and increased workloads mean there’s less time to focus on the curve, he says that’s no excuse.
“It should be priority one,” he says. “If you can’t stay ahead of the Curve, what else matters?
