There are business buzzwords, and then there are important business concepts you cannot afford to ignore. Resilience is one of the latter. Resilience emanates from …
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Becoming Resilient
Author Archives: Becky
Please Stop Building Inventory!
It was not that long ago that most manufacturers and distributors carried entirely too much inventory. The drag on cash flow was never offset by …
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Building Your Strategic Mindset
Strategy is one of those important business concepts that many cannot recognize, develop or implement, yet businesses that endure have mastered. “Growth” is not a …
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Could You Make A Forever Promise?
The business model in manufacturing and distribution has long been own it, sell it, get paid for it. For most of those companies, it still …
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How Outdated is Your Job?
Are you a pneumatic tube operator? A COO is not a COO is not a COO. While the title Chief Operating Officer should indicate range …
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My Call is Not Important to You
When a recorded message for customers is considered a snide comment you’ve failed. Yet the way to fix that is not to prevent customers from …
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Excellence Betrayed by Mediocrity
The Cleveland Clinic is widely recognized as one of the best medical systems in the world. And its delivery of medical services deserves that recognition. …
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Moving Manufacturing Operations From China Because…..
A number of manufacturers have announced plans to leave China, primarily due to the upheaval in Hong Kong and impacts of the government’s “zero covid” …
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Is Yours a Supply Chain, Or Supply Mush?
As we advanced from craftsmen through the industrial revolution, Henry Ford decided the best way to make automobiles was a 100% vertically integrated business model. …
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Why Not Replace Yourself?
These are strange times for the workforce. Disney, the picture of stability, recently fired the CEO they had groomed for the job, and brought back …
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