Cardinal Health is "enormously proud" of ESG efforts | Sysco adding EV chargers at facility in Southern Calif. | SpartanNash hires new VP for merchandising strategy and analytics
Cardinal Health worked with BSR, a global nonprofit, to refine its environmental, social and governance program and has issued its first ESG report, in which CEO Jason Hollar said he is "enormously proud of our employees." The company cut its scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas emissions by 18% as of the end of the 2022 fiscal year, working toward its goal of reducing scope 1 and 2 emissions by half by 2030.
Sysco is upgrading the electrical vehicle charging capacity at its facility in Riverside, Calif., to accommodate 40 EV trucks and 40 refrigerated trailers at a time. The food distributor will add 2,800 electric trucks to its US fleet of 9,000 by 2030, in line with its goal to reduce carbon emissions by 27.5%.
Port activity dropped year-over-year for March at major US East and West Coast ports, with the ports in Seattle and Tacoma, Wash., experiencing the largest decrease of 37.3%. Gene Seroka, Port of Los Angeles' executive director says, "Economic conditions slowed global trade considerably in the first quarter; however, we are beginning to see some signs of improvement, including nine consecutive months of inflation declines."
Asking your team to enhance sales efforts with ChatGPT can make them more efficient, sales consultant Colleen Francis says in this video. It can provide speedy research on a potential client, offer counterarguments to objections, craft a response to an email and much more, allowing sales professionals to use or refine the result, Francis says.
Many employees today "want leaders to be their partners in growth," and these truly authentic connections require humility, for which leaders dismantle walls, build trust, and focus less on themselves and more on their colleagues, writes business coach McKinlee Covey, the co-author with Stephen Covey of "Trust & Inspire." To get there, Covey advises listening, eradicating your ego and getting to know yourself.
If you find yourself unenthusiastic about your work, putting off doing things that bring joy or feeling out of alignment with your values and beliefs, you could be, as Gregg Vanourek writes, "sleepwalking" through life. You can wake up, Vanourek notes, by focusing on what matters, practicing mindfulness and taking action on things you're procrastinating over, all while realizing it may take time to snap out of it, but once you begin, momentum will build.
