FROM RISK TO RESILIENCE: A LEADERSHIP STRATEGY
PREFACE By my own reckoning, these blogs are intense. They are not directly about how important or essential supply chain and logistics are; nor do they discuss how good logistics…
Blog Series Part 6: The Importance Of Strategic Leadership
What makes Applied Innovation a strategic leader’s toolkit? As strategic thinkers, we need to learn new ways of thinking [using such tools as fringe mapping] as well as different ways of…
Blog Series Part 5: The Importance Of Strategic Leadership
In Part 5 of the video blogs series, we are going to look at one particular tool in the Applied Innovation toolkit, and that is Fringe Mapping: a tool that…
Blog Series Part 4: The Importance Of Strategic Leadership
In Part 4 of the video blogs series, we’ll explore one of these tools – bias analysis. The focus of this discussion will be on cognitive biases, not stereotypical biases.…
Blog Series Part 3: The Importance Of Strategic Leadership
As businesses, and in particular as supply chain logistics practitioners and professionals, we are competent planners. But is planning enough in the 21st century? The biggest problem with the way…
Blog Series Part 2: The Importance Of Strategic Leadership
Through this series of video blogs, we are exploring the various reasons that make strategic leadership of critical importance in today’s business environment. Strategic Leadership is becoming more and more…
Blog Series: The Importance Of Strategic Leadership
Strategic leadership is becoming more and more critical in 21st century global business eco-systems. Applied Innovation is a toolkit that enables us to lead strategically. As business and supply chain…
COMPETENCY-BASED LEARNING: THE CAPACITY TO SUCCEED
The Logistics Institute is a professional organization; it is not an educational institution. It certifies the professional competence of SCL practitioners who earn designations. Earning a professional designation is not…
Developing 21st Century Leaders – Blog Series – PART 7: LEADERSHIP CHALLENGES
21ST CENTURY LEADERSHIP IMPERATIVE: As organizations continue to transition from primarily bureaucratic and transactional groups to organic networks, aka eco-systems, the necessity for individuals to become contextually intelligent increases. Organizations…
Developing 21st Century Leaders – Blog Series – PART 6 VALUES-LED ORGANIZATIONS
In the 21st Century, most companies are or can claim to be well-managed. They have made great strides towards efficiencies focused on corporate structures, operational processes, and performance excellence. We…