Have you heard: “It’s time for stakeholder capitalism” (v. “shareholder capitalism”). These terms are irrelevant to non-public companies (like most distributors). The phrase is code for legislating more -compensation, benefits, and job security – to workers which will add friction to the US economy.
Category Archives: Core Renewal
220. Election Polls, Smart Risks and Dumb Mistakes
Lessons from Bad Polling Forecasts
Massive money was spent on polls and flipping Republican senate seats. Alas, no Blue Wave happened. Key lessons:
- Models – based on past results for a complex, ever-changing system – don’t accurately predict the future.
- Money wasted on “dumb bets” (like the $300MM democrats spent trying to flip 5 Republican senate seats unsuccessfully) can’t also be invested into smarter risks.
- If you want to get rich, you must have vital information – about stable systems – that no one else has and upon which you can act.
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218. Redesign Warehouse: Value Productivity and Pay Or Lose
Warehouse Wage-War News
What’s driving this hourly-labor, news stream?
- Oct 2018: Amazon (which sets the bar) upped the ante for warehouse workers (and Delivery Partner drivers) to $15/hr. plus benefits. And, Bernie Sanders applauded!
- July 2019: AMZ announces a $700MM training budget to advance, self-selected warehouse workers to: better, technical-jobs, career paths.
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213. Improving Your Firm’s Innovation IQ
Distributors Must Innovate. Most Cannot. The Cure?
Regular readers may sense a theme that threads through my recent: blogs; curated Linkedin posts with comments; and my 12, recorded webinars. The theme? What big innovations are necessary to win at eCommerce 2023 and how to make them happen.
212. Big Cities, Big Struggles. Plan Flexibly
Big-City, Pandemic Problems:
Conference Board Survey (8/26/20): “only 27% of workplaces in the top 20 US cities will be reopened by the end of September”.
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210. The Future is Easier to Understand in Your Own Back Yard
(This week’s blog is from a frequent collaborator, Bill Wade: a career distribution expert especially for heavy duty truck and automotive parts.
Amazon is expanding US fulfillment capacity by 50% in just 2020 as they drive towards 12-hour delivery in a 24-hour day. They are doing heavy build outs in target cities including Bill’s hometown of Chicago. Parts distributors of all types will feel the heat.)
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