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

Strategy Driven

As businesses navigate an evolving market, they increasingly turn to Less Than Truckload shipping to transport goods cost-effectively and flexibly. This method improves cost-efficiency for shippers with smaller cargo and maximizes the use of available space within transportation networks.

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Volatile, Uncertain, Complex and Ambiguous (VUCA) Business

Coaching Tip

Leaders in companies prioritizing interaction skills are more effective at coaching and developing others; communicating and interacting; developing strong networks and partnerships; fostering employee creativity and innovation; and identifying and developing future talent. Worse yet, only one in 20 did all forms well.

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The Reason Air Travel Is Terrible and So Few Airlines Are Profitable

Harvard Business Review

Instead of getting into a price war or squabbling over a shrinking market, both disruptors and incumbents find new ways to create value. This benefits customers – both the high-end customers being chased by incumbents, and the low-end or middle-market consumers being served by disruptors — and the industry at large.

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The Comprehensive Business Case for Sustainability

Harvard Business Review

Today’s executives are dealing with a complex and unprecedented brew of social, environmental, market, and technological trends. “Stranded assets” are investments that become obsolete due to regulatory, environmental, or market constraints. Fostering innovation. billion in mining projects since 2010.

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Most Industries Are Nowhere Close to Realizing the Potential of Analytics

Harvard Business Review

MGI’s latest research with McKinsey Analytics on the state of the big data revolution measures the progress various industries have made toward capturing the revenue and efficiency gains we envisioned five years ago. To keep up with the pace of change, incumbents need to consider a two-part strategy.

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Two Forces Moving Business Closer to Climate Action

Harvard Business Review

Apple’s Tim Cook spoke as well, saying “the time for inaction has passed,” and commenting that we don’t need to accept any “tradeoff between economy and environment — both are doable if you innovate and set the bar high enough.”. Polman and Branson are expected at these meetings now, but more leaders are joining.

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Capitalism’s Future Is Already Here

Harvard Business Review

The article shocked the sensibilities of many who worried about rising corporate power in the world, but for many executives struggling to chart courses through the chaos of newly globalized and deregulated markets, it offered an irresistible clarity: one need only focus on owners’ interests. It’s becoming steadily more efficient.