Sysco sets 2030 goals for electric trucks, renewables | Central Garden & Pet swings to loss in fiscal Q4 | Amazon is fined by Italy for anti-competitive actions
Sysco plans to have more than one-third of its big-rig trucks be electric-powered by 2030, the same year it hopes to have all operations fueled solely by renewable energy. Also, Sysco will work with suppliers to get them to cut their carbon emissions.
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Supply chain delays are showing early signs of easing but aren't expected to return to normal operations until sometime next year, industry executives say. Backlogs at US ports are likely to improve early next year as the holiday season ends in the US and factories in Asia close for a week in February to celebrate Lunar New Year.
The ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, Calif., will again delay fines on carriers whose cargo spends excessive time on the docks, noting that such volume has dropped by 33% since the fines were announced Oct. 25. Port officials say they will reevaluate the situation next week.
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Salespeople often avoid pursuing challenging deals in favor of engaging with prospects that are more likely to buy, writes Anthony Iannarino, but a better approach involves separating the sales pipeline into short-term and long-term opportunities. Use the "Year Zero" approach, which acknowledges that you won't win a dream client in the first year of your relationship, to put your company in position to serve those clients once they see the need to solve a key problem.
Business-to-business marketers can create better customer experiences and foster brand loyalty by engaging emotionally with audiences, writes iResearch Services CEO Yogesh Shah. Use thought leadership content to build trust, monitor social media to discover the issues that really matter to prospects and imbue every touchpoint with empathy, Shah advises.
Negative, uncooperative colleagues can cause unnecessary stress and low morale in any workplace. Psychiatrist Mark Goulston shares several tactics to deal with difficult people and situations to help make the work environment healthier.
The choice is not between culture and strategy, but rather both must "be embedded in the management system and the allocation of resources, because together these support the decisions to invest in the critical few behaviors that disproportionately drive performance," writes coach and interviewer David Lancefield. He offers a blueprint for discovering the connections of culture and strategy.
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