On a day in late July, as a heat wave hit the Pacific Northwest, a 69-year-old farmworker named Florencio Gueta Vargas collapsed in the farm field the place he was working in Washington’s Yakima Valley. When he didn’t return dwelling that evening, his household got here on the lookout for him at the farm. They had been informed that he ...

Innovation. It’s a phrase so central to success in enterprise that it’s virtually talismanic. It brings to thoughts photographs of Nikola Tesla slaving away in his Shoreham, N.Y. workshop, or Jobs and Woz cobbling collectively the primary Apple pc in a Cupertino storage. Innovation is the engine that powers the economic system, mints unicorns, and billionaires, and provides us manufacturers ...