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6 Tips for Making Your Warehouse Profitable

Strategy Driven

In such a time, it’s critical for warehouses to operate with both efficiency and flexibility — but many businesses still haven’t taken a good hard look at their warehouse and logistics operations for opportunities to streamline processes and reduce waste. Evaluate technology training practices.

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How to Transform Your Company into a Digital Leader

Skip Prichard

An organization that is nimble has the modernized and matured their practices related to people, processes, technologies, ecosystems, and strategy such that they can seize opportunities as they present themselves and stave off issues that present themselves more readily, as each will be presented more quickly than in the past.

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Through Colored Glasses: How Great Leaders Reveal Reality

Joseph Lalonde

There are many great how-to nonfiction books with practical keys, steps and tips, but most of them lack an emotional aspect. The main concept of the book is that we all operate with a certain set of biases and filters that compel us to see everything through our own colored glasses. Photo by Jamie Brown. It clouds and confuses leaders.

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CMI Malaysia: updates from the board

Chartered Management Institute

Norharizan began her career as a supervisor of an operation support team for the first few Marrybrown Fried Chicken outlets in 1989 – and she rose up, launching her first ever business as franchisee operator of Marrybrown Fried Chicken in a number of locations in Malaysia.

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Leveraging Down for CEOs | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

So, in today’s post I’ll share two a few tips on deciding which tasks, and to whom, the art of delegation should apply… As a CEO it is critical to develop a keen understanding of your value to the enterprise, and to further develop an awareness of activities that are dilutive to said value.

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Give Your Employees a Knife

Lead Change Blog

Trust them as mature adults and it will be generalized to all their other assignments. The word servant (with a hat tip to Robert Greenleaf!) What are the barriers to responsible freedom in your operation? The sound of confidence was more than obvious. I know what you’re thinking…granddaddies can be dangerous people!!

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The Future of Our Partnership With Machines

Skip Prichard

Jobs most at risk: machine operators and assemblers, clerical workers, elementary occupations, crafts and related trades. You could argue that all jobs are at risk: Machines can already analyze data, pick stocks, make decisions that touch on operational efficiency and logistics, sift through resumes and make hiring decisions, etc.

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