The Resilient Supply Chain: Do You Have Resilient Employees?
It is important to nurture resilient employees to ensure a more robust and adaptable supply chain.
My 5-City Cross-Country Trip & the Value of Collecting Good People
A personal account of a cross-country trip emphasizing the importance of building and maintaining connections with good people.
Industry Week’s Salary Survey Finds Good Morale Yet Not Higher Wages
Insights from the Industry Week Salary Survey on manufacturing employee morale and the disparity in wage trends
Should We Care If Women Are on Boards?
Insights into the transformative impact and advantages of women's presence on corporate boards in business
The Talent Shortage – What to Do…
Explore strategies to overcome the talent shortage in today's competitive business landscape. Some tips for what you can do.
Conflict & Collaboration in the Supply Chain
Have you thought about the role of conflict and collaboration in the supply chain? When thinking of supply chain from creation to customer, there are many links and connections.
How You Learn More By Teaching
If you want to learn, teach.
People Rule!
Several situations have arisen recently that leads us to plead "choose wisely". Examples abound on both sides of this topic. Strong leaders attract top talent. Weak and command and control leaders keep the weak and those close to retirement (in name only). That is one of the things we [...]
The Skills Gap Emerges as #1 at Prominent Supply Chain Conference
At the Southern California Supply Chain and Logistics Summit conference, there were several keynote speakers from industry icons such as Amazon, UPS, Union Pacific and more. One might expect quite a lot of interesting insights into the latest supply chain trends yet the most common theme among the presentations tied back to the skills gap.
Who Gets the Talent?
In assisting a client to find top notch technical talent through traditional on-line sources, we can definitely say it is an exercise in frustration.