The core personal consumption expenditures price index, the Federal Reserve's preferred inflation metric, is expected to increase 0.4% in January from December when the official figure is released Thursday. It would be the second month in a row of acceleration and could prompt the Fed to hold off on lowering rates until it is certain that inflation is going down. Also due this week are durable goods orders and the Institute of Supply Management's manufacturing data for February.

Freight logistics services provider Flexport is relaunching Convoy as a business-to-business marketplace for smaller truckers and carriers to access global shippers with features including access to real-time information, shipment tracking, pricing and on-time performance data. Flexport bought Convoy's intellectual property assets and technology last year as the freight logistics services provider seeks to create a unified platform for global shipment.

Many companies have been updating their warehouses with advanced technology such as automated storage and retrieval systems but have been overlooking their fire protection systems, which are often outdated and serve manual operations, says Tracey Bellamy, chief engineering officer for Telgian Engineering and Consulting, a fire protection company. Bellamy says companies should identify any hazards in the facility and carry out large-scale fire tests to design a protection system for each hazard.

Walmart's Project Gigaton, which aimed to remove 1 billion metric tons of greenhouse-gas emissions from its supply chain, hit that goal in seven years instead of the 13 years the retailer originally projected. The program, which doesn't charge suppliers to participate, found the top use case was emissions reduction, followed by avoidance and sequestration, which includes carbon storage.

Australian researchers plan to embed wireless charging technology for heavy vehicles on a stretch of road of just less than a mile as part of a $5.4 million initiative. Mehdi Seyedmahmoudian, a professor of new-energy technology research at Swinburne University in Melbourne, said electrifying commercial vehicles will contribute "to a greener, safer and more efficient transport sector."

LinkedIn's new guide to B2B marketing approaches gives businesses a playbook for navigating privacy challenges and performance tracking of digital campaigns. More than 90% of marketers believe that changes in privacy regulations will make first-party data strategies an important part of their success, according to a study by LinkedIn and Boston Consulting Group.

As cookies are phased out, marketers must examine data strategies, focus on customers, and evaluate their processes for setting goals and key performance indicators, writes Anteriad Vice President Nikki Candito. Candito stresses the importance of finding out which marketing elements depend on cookies and notes that brands might find contextual targeting a valuable option.

Some leaders seem to have superhuman abilities to overcome adversity, spot new opportunities and create growth, but fatal flaws such as hubris, fear and a blindness to alternative strategies could doom their efforts, writes executive coach Ed Batista. Focusing on antidotes such as humility, vulnerability and self-awareness can help leaders lean into the best parts of their abilities and overcome their weaknesses, Batista notes.

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