There’s a telling moment in how today’s top supply chain operators talk about their jobs. They don’t describe a string of emergencies. They describe a permanent state of emergency, and the subtle exhaustion of having normalized it.
“Tariffs change every 10 minutes, component costs, memory costs,” said Brittany Bagley, the executive who serves as both COO and CFO at Axon, the body camera and public safety technology company whose hardware ships to law enforcement agencies across the country. “There’s just sort of one thing after the next, and then your business doesn’t slow down, either.”
