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Change Management: Invest in the Journey
Change is hard. Intentional change, whether building new processes or eliminating old ones, is especially hard. It’s one thing “to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,” but actually doing something about it is tough. Too many consultants, coaches, and...
LinkedIn Live: Self Care is a Team Sport
For anyone who missed it, we hosted our very first LinkedIn Live event last Thursday! We were excited to follow up on our Peak Season Webinar from October and share some easy, low/no cost tactics to help logistics leaders maintain themselves and their teams during the...
Webinar: Personal Peak Season Prep
Our very first Live Webinar is in the books! We can't say thank you enough to everyone who attended, and we hope you walked away with some useful tools to tackle Peak Season and beyond. For anyone who missed it, the video is available here:...
U-Curves: The Geometry of Being a Professional
There’s a very good chance this simple curve is the most important thing you’ll see on the internet today. The concept of the U-Curve (inverted from the actual letter in most cases) is one of the most persistent and useful models for understanding and maximizing our...
Sifted Podcast: Shipping Nightmares (And How to Avoid Them)
Our CEO Jess Windham joined Caleb Nelson and the crew from Sifted on the most recent episode of their podcast, LeaderShipping. With Peak Season upon us, logistics leaders are losing bandwidth by the day. Jess dives into why this matters, and the effect it can have on...
GRI’s Across Modes
Earlier this month, FedEx released their much-anticipated 2023 GRI. As we’ve all come to expect around this time of year, analyses of the carrier’s new rates have dominated shipping conversations in the subsequent weeks. We did our own deep dive into their...
FreightPOP Interview: Mastering Logistics and Tackling Team Burnout
Our CEO Jessica Windham recently sat down with leading TMS provider FreightPOP for their Leaders in Logistics feature. At Solving Work, focusing on people's wellbeing is our number one priority. In this feature, Jess shares the risks of failing to prioritize your...
Carrier Crisis: Diversify Now to Avoid Catastrophe Later
This summer has been the most dramatic carrier crisis in logistics since the 2020 lockdown. There were tense negotiations between UPS and Teamsters over a new contract. Yellow announced they were declaring bankruptcy and shutting down operations. Labor agreements up...
Bubble Wrap: A Multi-Purpose Tool
This may surprise you, but bubble-wrap can be a very effective leadership tool. Stay with me ... When it comes to shipping, bubble-wrap is often used to protect fragile goods in transit. But in my role as a leader, I’ve found another creative way to use bubble-wrap to...
Mitigating a Fragile Market
Many businesses take their logistics for granted. How products move is usually an after-thought, secondary to the product itself. But certain events have the power to highlight the importance of logistics to the flow of every day life. Especially when those events can...