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How Do Freight Brokers Find Great Work-Life Balance?

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Henry David Thoreau knew it in 1854 and some of the most successful people in our society today know it now : defining your own success is critical to job satisfaction. With new technology firmly on their side, and freight broker bonds ensuring high industry standards, today’s freight brokers are showing the rest of us how it’s done.

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What we need to be. Building the Defence logistician ? Part Two

Logistics in War

By David Beaumont. This has proven difficult to achieve in environments and times where authorities have been spread throughout the organisation, and where priorities and emphasis in responsibility have not been given. David Beaumont is a serving Australian Army officer. What we need to be. Being a logistician is difficult.

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5 Ways Manufacturing Companies Can Find the Deeper Secrets Behind the Numbers & Data That Don’t Lie

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And this dishonesty appears wherever we have imposed what David Boyle calls ‘The Tyranny of Numbers’. One of my favorite recent finds, via Henry Mintzberg, looks at the creation of statistics which justified British World War II aircraft expenditure: “As Eli Devons (1950:Ch. Newspapers and when the dog leaks on the floor.

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What we need to be. Building the Defence logistician – Part Two

Logistics in War

By David Beaumont. This has proven difficult to achieve in environments and times where authorities have been spread throughout the organisation, and where priorities and emphasis in responsibility have not been given. Over the next month we’ll be publishing a number of popular posts on as broad a range of topics as possible.

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Some reading suggestions, while you wait in the airport!

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Dubner (William Morrow, 2006) Publisher’s Blurb: “Through forceful storytelling and wry insight, [the authors] show that economics is, at root, the study of incentives — how people get what they want, or need, especially when other people want or need the same thing.” Levitt and Stephen J.