Using clear communication and data to communicate with your team is critical. In today’s tight labor market, maintaining a reliable core team is difficult. Finding a team of good employees is tough enough in the best of times; in distribution operations, it’s normal to have to cycle through six or more employees for one position.. […]
One of the best instructional books for good leadership I have ever read is A Message to Garcia. It only takes a few minutes to read and I highly recommend it. Here it is: In all this Cuban business there is one man stands out on the horizon of my memory like Mars at perihelion. […]
People often think that management and leadership are the same but they are not. A good manager can be a bad leader, and a good leader can be a bad manager. Simply put, management is making sure people are doing what they’re supposed to do. Leadership is that magical quality that makes people want to […]
One of the biggest challenges we see in today’s diverse warehousing and distribution work environments is the lack of leadership by supervisors and managers. Improvements in leadership can lead to better productivity, employee job satisfaction, and retention. Good leadership skills are both subjective and objective. Many good leaders are born with the necessary subjective skills, […]
