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Mark your calendars, Tata Crucible enthusiasts! 📅 As we journey through India, each stop brings us closer to the Cluster Finals. Curious about when we'll arrive in your city? Keep watching! Drop a comment with your city's name and join us on this exciting journey! Giri Balasubramaniam Tata Crucible #TataCrucible #TataCrucibleTurns20 #TataCrucibleCorporateQuiz #CorporateQuiz2024 #CorporateQuiz

Mark your calendars, Tata Crucible enthusiasts! 📅 As we journey through India, each stop brings us closer to the Cluster Finals. Curious about when we'll arrive in your city? Keep watching! Drop a comment with your city's name and join us on this exciting journey! #TataCrucible #TataCrucibleTurns20 #TataCrucibleCorporateQuiz #CorporateQuiz2024 #CorporateQuiz

🔊 Elevate Productivity with Sound! 🎶 This month I attended a community breakfast at Factory Berlin, where the amazing Sabine S. and Marisa Toldo shared some eye-opening insights about sound and productivity. Did you know that noise pollution ranks as the second-largest environmental cause of health problems, according to the WHO?! It leads to higher stress levels, mood swings, sleep disturbances and decreased productivity. Noise can be quite bothersome also in the workplace with coworkers chatting, coffee machines humming, and phones ringing incessantly. 😨 The good news is: there are high-quality background noises like rain, ocean waves, brown noise and white noise that can help mask disruptive sounds, reduce stress, enhance focus and boost productivity. With Noisli you can create your ideal sound environment to block out irritating noises, get into the zone quickly, increase productivity and reduce stress! 🎶🚀 And also: Happy birthday Noisli! 🎂🎉 #productivityhacks #noisereduction

Best place to celebrate a birthday!! All jokes aside, Kwik Trip seriously is the greatest gas station around! The Kwik Trip mission is to treat others as they would like to be treated and putting the consumer at such a high priority has made the chain thrive to the noteriety it has now. Given the lengthy process and supply chain of getting gas all the way to your local station from the ground of which it came, profit margins on gas are low. So low, that gas station owners can really only make their money from the goods inside the building they sell. “So what makes it so special?” Great question reader, and it is because Kwik Trip has taken out the complex supply chain of its products inside the store and sources a lot of them directly from a Kwik Trip owned kitchen. This doesn’t only make their goods delicious, it makes them extremely affordable too! We eat tasty treats, Kwik Trip still makes it’s money. This can be contained by a tight-knit geographical leash which keeps Kwik Trip mainly in Wisconsin. That turns the focus onto a narrow number of areas within the business such as food quality, cleanliness, and customer service which gave Kwik Trip the #1 spot of gas stations ranked by USA Today. In my 22 years on this Earth, I have never gone into a Kwik Trip and had a negative experience with an employee. That confidence probably comes from child care, healthcare, scholarships, 40% profit sharing, and recognition programs among many other benefits available to their staff. Regardless of what Kwik Trip does or does not do great, there is plenty that we can learn as businesspeople about how putting the consumer first instead of analyzing their consumer habits and manipulating them can really help a company thrive. The welcoming atmosphere at Kwik Trip is no joke and paired with Midwest hospitality it becomes unbeatable, so I get why this guy would want his birthday to be there!

Logistics can be a servant industry. It can also be a partner industry. If you act as a servant/order taker, you accept what's given to you. Customer says, "Hey, I need a box truck for these 15 pallets." And if you're an order taker, you say "You got it, boss." If you want to rise above being a servant/order taker, you need to become an industry partner. Customer says, "Hey, I need a box truck for these 15 pallets." And you say, "Customer, unless those pallets are stackable, you're going to need a dry van. How does that work for you?" The difference between the two is the ability to make suggestions.

Passion is key to any achievement.

It is true, and everyone who cares for us and loves us knows when any changes happen to us, if we are sad or happy, or if we need any help without asking them. That is the beauty of the relationship. #motivationalpost #inspirationalquotes #peoplecare #leadershipdevelopment #developingpeople

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