Blogs
Is Your 3PL Network a Trick or Treat?
9 Emerging Trends May Haunt Your Future Does Halloween keep you up at night worrying about the future of your 3PL network? Maybe not. But it is Halloween. And many supply chain players, including 3PLs, are in the midst of holiday peak season for 2024. But beyond this...
Why Cross-Cultural Coaching Is Critical
When Expanding Internationally, Don’t Fall on Your Face – or Anything Else Your leadership team just landed in Warsaw, ready for your company’s big European expansion. Did you equip them with any cross-cultural coaching? If not, they have a good shot at falling on...
Digital Enablement – You’re Doing It Wrong
The Future Means Reimagining How We Work, Not Just Adding Technology I keep hearing people use the terms “digital enablement” and “digital transformation” interchangeably. Some just like to repeat the latest buzzwords. Maybe they think it’s a corporate goal or a...
Leading Remote Teams – Don’t Let Different Cities Stop You
New Era of Leadership Requires New Skills, Not Control Although remote work has been with us for years, many executives still worry about leading remote teams effectively. Leading teams across different cities – or continents, as in the case of Tompkins Ventures –...
Do Amenities Solve Back to the Office Blues?
Execs Spend Tens of Millions to Avoid Remote, Hybrid Work Have developers discovered the secret sauce to luring workers back to the office? Some think so. The Wall Street Journal explains how offices from Manhattan to New Jersey to California have increased occupancy...
Can an App Save Lives? AI Industrial Safety Goes Mobile
Workplace Injuries Cost Lives, Pain and Big Money Can an app save a life? Or lives? Revolutionize industrial safety? I've been amazed at how business has integrated artificial intelligence into operations. From supply chain to marketing to yes, industrial safety. This...
The Risks of Rejoicing Over the End of Hybrid Work
Return-to-Office Mandates Will Drive Your Best People Away, Fuel Competitors When Amazon recently announced its decision to end hybrid work, bosses the world over popped champagne. I think they're going to eventually choke on their bubbly. Yes, some predict that...
From Typewriters to AI, or Refirement Part II
Starting a Business Now vs. 1975 is Way Different ... and Somewhat the Same My recent blog on refirement vs. retirement received more attention than any blog I have ever written. That was quite surprising, because my 500+ blogs over the years have covered important...
Planting the Seeds of Circular Supply Chains
From Food Upcycling to Reusing Heavy Machinery, Businesses Must Rethink Everything A circular supply chain is like a forest – nothing is wasted. Leaves fall, decompose and become nutrients for the next circle of life. But can that analogy work in the supply chain...
Individualism, Living Space Affect Remote Work
In Some Geographies, the Office Has More Room – And Air Conditioning Why does work from home vary so much across countries? While some point to a culture of individualism in English-speaking countries, I think living space and conditions play a huge role. Average...
Green Logistics Are the Gateway to Sustainable Supply Chains
How Leaders Can Transform Environmental Compliance into Competitive Advantage Sustainable supply chain regulations are only going to increase in the coming years. Your only question is whether your enterprise will grudgingly abide or turn green logistics into...
Supply Chain Knowledge Helps Power through Disruptions
Typhoons and Port Strikes and Damage, Oh My! In a world of perpetual disruption, knowledge is power – particularly supply chain knowledge. Because in today's global marketplace, supply chain disruptions are the rule, not the exception. From natural disasters to...