It’s nearly impossible to find someone in today’s world who hasn’t felt the impact of COVID-19. That’s true for both business and personal lives. Some of these effects will prove transitory. However, there is a list of potentially long-term business effects resulting from the pandemic. Shutdowns resulted in the closure […]
Business Development
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Last week, I posted an IdeaXchange blog that discussed how to set effective business goals. The goal of setting goals is not to post utopian or “pie in the sky” expectations, but to set goals that are achievable. In the blog I detail the following tips: Get buy-in from company […]
Inflation, COVID variants, supply chain bottlenecks…everywhere you look, challenges to business growth keep expanding. It seems as though every day, another report comes out that forces organizations to review and revise forecasts, goals, and planning. Last week, an article in Transport Topics detailed the diminished prospects economies (and thereby businesses) […]
I recently wrote an article in FleetOwner discussing the bi-partisan infrastructure bill which finally was signed into law. Now it’s time to hear from a NationaLease member. Tom Fleming is Chairman and CEO of Aim NationaLease and Aim Integrated Logistics. He also sits on the NationaLease Board of Directors. We […]
When COVID-19 exploded, shortages were an everyday discussion, but the hope that shortages would be short-term isn’t panning out, especially when it comes to semiconductors…and that’s bad news for the trucking industry. Earlier this year, I wrote a blog on how the “just-in-time” inventory formula failed to consider the impact […]
When heat reaches extreme levels in places not prepared for it, many businesses suffer. Our industry has its own issues to deal with. In May of this year, I wrote an IdeaXchange blog describing how the private fleets are making investments in green initiatives as noted in the National Private […]
There is light at the end of the pandemic tunnel. But some trends have emerged that will affect businesses for the long haul. There have been a number of announcements over the past week that are positive, but there are warning signs within that news. On a positive note, vaccinations […]
People don’t quit their jobs…they quit their bosses. In the movie, Horrible Bosses, employees consider unique and unacceptable ways of getting out from under terrible, abusive supervisors. Fortunately, that’s not the way people handle that situation. Unfortunately, the employee usually ends up leaving the company. If the person was, by […]
There are those who see the challenges created by a crisis and grow to meet those challenges. The same is true for businesses. My recent IdeaXchange blog, printed in full below, asks some tough questions. What will your answers be? “I honestly cannot think of one thing that was not […]