The Holidays are a time for giving. My posting today celebrates the best example of corporate giving that I came across in my travels this year. TNT, a large global provider of express deliveries, and ORTEC, a company that provides a logistics optimization and execution platform with advanced planning capabilities, are the two companies whose intelligent giving has helped to make the world a better place to live… Continue reading
We were excited, we were wet, we had stupid expressions on our faces. But nothing could stop us on this particular Sunday in May–nothing.
Last night I found myself in the basement looking through old photo albums, and I came across the one I put together almost twenty years ago after I cycled cross country with my friends Pete and Paul. We had just graduated from college, and instead… Continue reading
Okay, so the title is not true, but JB Hunt or any other large trucking company could make such an announcement in the not too distant future, just like Terry Gou, the CEO of Foxconn recently made. According to a Xinhua News Agency article, Gou said that “Foxconn will replace some of its workers with 1 million robots in three years to cut rising labor expenses and… Continue reading
What if you could develop eyes like photographic negatives, see what images from your life remain scrap-booked inside when there is no more light or darkness, no more day or night, nothing more to see?
Three years ago today, I closed my father’s eyes and kissed him for the last time. I sometimes wonder what the last thing he saw was, if it was real or imagined, color or black and… Continue reading
At the workshop I conducted last month on learning and leadership in supply chain management, the topic of best practices came up. Is having knowledge about supply chain best practices in your industry important to being an effective leader? What about having knowledge about best practices from other industries?
After the usual comments were made about best practices, such as how “leading practices” is perhaps a better term… Continue reading
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