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Unlocking the Potential of Less Than Truckload (LTL) Freight Shipping: Strategies for Efficiency and Cost Management

Strategy Driven

Strategies for Cost-Effective LTL Freight Shipping Cost management in LTL shipping requires a multi-faceted approach. One effective strategy is to combine smaller shipments destined for similar locations into one LTL shipment, which leads to better freight rates due to economies of scale.

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101 Things I Learned in Business School

Leading Blog

B USINESS is not a discipline, but an endeavor made up of disciplines such as accounting, communications, economics, finance, leadership, management, marketing, operations, psychology, sociology, and strategy. Lesson: The higher one rises in an organization, the more one must be a generalist.

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How to Diversify Your Happiness

Next Level Blog

Over time, the balanced investment approach of asset diversification has proven to yield reasonably predictable rates of return. Not super sexy rates of return, but rates in which you can have some degree of confidence. And, by now, you may be asking yourself, “I thought this was a leadership blog.

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Volatile, Uncertain, Complex and Ambiguous (VUCA) Business

Coaching Tip

In the volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous (VUCA) business landscape expected to continue for 2015, leaders face many challenges , requiring aggressive, sustained talent management strategies to prepare them for success. Two times more likely to place value on interacting over managing skills.

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What Private Equity Investors Think They Do for the Companies They Buy

Harvard Business Review

What have been less explored are the specific actions taken by private equity (PE) fund managers. In a survey of 79 PE firms managing more than $750 billion in capital, we provide granular information on PE managers’ practices and how firms’ strategies relate to the characteristics of their founders.

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An Experiment in India Shows How Much Companies Have to Gain by Investing in Their Employees

Harvard Business Review

It may seem that the employers of such low-wage workers — who focus mainly on keeping costs down in order to survive in a relentlessly competitive industry — would have no incentive to provide such training or resources for personal development. And her managers are, too. She is happier now.

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Most Industries Are Nowhere Close to Realizing the Potential of Analytics

Harvard Business Review

Data scientists continue to be in high demand, but companies are also scrambling to attract or develop “business translators” who can ask the data science team the right questions and apply the results to practical business problems. Another critical piece of the puzzle is acquiring the right capabilities.