Iowa-based grocery chain Hy-Vee saw the need to focus on food insecurity during the pandemic, and that effort continues, says Tina Potthoff, senior vice president for communications, in this podcast, which also discusses storytelling and challenges faced since the start of the pandemic. "While we have a big need, there is also a huge amount of people who want to help," Potthoff notes.

Federal Reserve officials have indicated more work is needed to tame inflation, although how they plan to proceed is uncertain. Markets expect a quarter-percentage-point interest-rate increase at the next policy meeting. Some Fed officials have suggested a slowdown in increases would provide flexibility.

After a big year in 2022, shares of packaged goods, grocery and supermarket companies recently have lagged in the stock market, hampered by high input costs, slipping sales volumes and a strong US dollar. Procter & Gamble Co. warned of high prices for commodities and shoppers feeling the effects of inflation in its earnings report last week.

Almost 70% of US manufacturing leaders have temporarily put the brakes on sustainability efforts because of inflation's cost increases, according to a Visual Components survey, but Bain & Co. believes such companies ultimately will "lose the hearts and pockets of customers." Although many sustainability actions don't affect profit margins, IT analyst Mary Ann Richardson of technology research firm CMR Executive Advisory has five suggestions to make sure firms can reconcile profit and sustainability.

Aminu Abdullahi dissects the differences between data integration and data ingestion, noting the terms are often used interchangeably. The key distinction is that data ingestion "is simply transferring data from one system to another" and "does not involve processing the data before it is loaded into the destination system," Abdullahi writes.

More details on ad targeting and sharing practices are among the changes Meta is making to the Accounts Center, which will gradually go into effect over the upcoming months. The updates also let users consolidate accounts and update security preferences and personal information for Instagram, Messenger and Facebook in one spot.

Fear of making a wrong decision can keep us stuck, but author Leo Babauta recommends ditching overthinking in favor of trusting and following your heart and seeing decision-making as a learning process instead of imagining bad outcomes. "This learning approach frees us up from having to get it right, and allows for it to be a more empowered process," Babauta writes.

Leaders can build a culture of well-being by setting an example, by rewarding people who support the well-being of others and by making honoring employees' health goals part of company policy, writes Dr. Richard Safeer, chief medical director of employee health and well-being at Johns Hopkins Medicine. "When the team works together to create a healthy norm, it's more likely to come to fruition, and everyone benefits," Safeer writes.