I have admittedly NEVER been good at this. I am the consummate first child who has always been a people pleaser. As such, I find myself in situations where I have agreed to do more than any human should ever volunteer to do. Those around me, professionally and…
We just spoke to a prospect regarding their Supplier Diversity program and I was reminded of something that we had started to talk about pre-COVID. In fact, COVID stopped a benchmarking research project we were about to launch called “Reimagining Supplier Diversity – SD 2.0”. As you know,…
I have spent the last several weeks training a client on how to “sell” their recommendations to their internal Stakeholders. As Sourcing / Category Management / Supply Chain professionals we ARE playing the role of an internal consultant (whether we recognize it or not). To be effective in…
There’s that word “governance” and personally it makes me cringe. It reminds me of what we are bombarded with in the news every day – chaos, partisanism, division, in-fighting, etc. (all very negative) but Governance can be positive and effective and is THE BEST way to get decisions…
Yes, yes I know you’ve heard us say this many a time before but it bears repeating because a number of us are still not convinced. And the experts are still focusing on it so I thought it deserves a repeat appearance. None other than LinkedIn, one of…
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