by Jim Tompkins | Sep 12, 2024 | Leadership
Never Going to Allow Work from Home? You Need to Offer More “I want to hold (staff) captive all day long.” Sounds like a horrible boss, right? When I read that quote from Chris Ellison, I figured he must be a miserable person to work for. However, as I read more, I...
by Jim Tompkins | Sep 10, 2024 | Leadership
Legendary Aviator Can Inspire Leaders for Today At 2:35 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 12, my wife and I will arrive at the West Lafayette/Purdue University Airport (LAF) and walk past the construction site of the new Amelia Earhart Terminal. The $11.8 million terminal will be...
by Jim Tompkins | Sep 5, 2024 | Leadership
How A New Chapter in Life Begets More Enthusiasm than Gardening When people ask me if I plan to retire, these days I reply, “No, I prefer refirement.” That usually brings a quizzical look. I quickly explain that no, I am not repeatedly firing employees....
by Jim Tompkins | Aug 22, 2024 | Leadership
Lessons from Five Decades in the Field I’ve spent five decades hiring, and sometimes unhiring, people in supply chain, including supply chain executives. This ranges from administrative assistants to supply chain executives. I’ve recommended scores of...
by Jim Tompkins | Jul 25, 2024 | Leadership
The Future of Work Continues to Look More Virtual More bosses are backing up their return-to-office mandates by terminating employees who refuse to comply. Employees are responding by telling control freak bosses to shove those lengthy commutes. Dell offers a recent...
by Sophie Dabbs | Apr 11, 2024 | Leadership
Ignoring the Human Element Can Lead to Unforeseen Problems During Integration During due diligence, corporate M&A teams often focus on technology, systems and finances, not culture and talent. After all, enhancing the bottom line is the primary goal. Your...
by Jim Tompkins | Jan 22, 2024 | Leadership
Business Intelligence Paired with Insights Lead to World-Class Results Innovation is a key driver of corporate success, fosters growth and helps businesses adapt to the challenge of disruption. Innovation can improve existing products, services, processes and/or...
by Jim Tompkins | Nov 30, 2023 | Leadership, Supply Chain
Both Are Critical, but CSCOs Must Face External Realities My blog about how boards of directors have tabled, but not enabled, chief supply chain officers generated a lot of feedback. Some questioned the need for a CSCO. This enhances my point: Companies still...
by Jim Tompkins | Nov 8, 2023 | Leadership
Supply chain leaders – including me – have been stressing that diversifying supply chains away from China will take time, energy and money. But what if politics doesn’t give your organization much choice? Business leaders need to start deploying optionality in case...
by Jim Tompkins | Nov 2, 2023 | Leadership
The 4th Could Have Your Enterprise Singing Like The Righteous Brothers Many business leaders make the mistake of considering partnerships transactional rather than relational. While transactions are always part of the business equation, a great partnership is...
by Jim Tompkins | Oct 24, 2023 | Leadership
Redesigned Global Networks Must Pay Attention to Previously Ignored Regions, Countries More than 75% of respondents to my recent globalization survey thought that the world – and the U.S. economy – benefited as economies, cultures and populations grew more...
by Jim Tompkins | Oct 17, 2023 | Leadership
The Antitrust Paradox that Really Isn’t I began researching Lina Khan in 2017. The current Federal Trade Commission Chair had published “Amazon’s Antitrust Paradox” in the prestigious Yale Law Journal. The article contended that Amazon used predatory pricing...
