My guest today is Frits Bisschop, Managing Director at Districon. Districon is a management consulting firm that specializes on supply chain optimization, logistics facility design and transportation networks. Based in Netherlands, Districon counts many airports, logistics providers and airlines globally as its clients.
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Ep. 2 – Patrick Nangle: Popularizing car-sharing through innovation
My guest today is Patrick Nangle, CEO of Modo Coop, based in Vancouver. Modo is the second oldest car-sharing co-op in North America and the largest in Canada. Under Patrick’s leadership and focus on innovation, Modo has been growing….
On Differentiation
For the last 40 years, transportation industry, as we know it, has been quite dull and boring. Carriers would move the freight from point A to point B and generally that would be the end of their contractual relationship with the customer. They competed with one another on price and delivery reliability (or with attempt to reach “99.9% on-time-performance”, in the industry parlance). And customers accepted it as norm…
Ep. 1 – Jim Peeples: It’s all about people
My guest today is Jim Peeples, President and Chief Operating Officer at Challenger Motor Freight – one of the largest trucking companies in Canada. Over the course of his career he ran quality, operations, air network, and even sales. Jim’s ability to effectively communicate…
Finding Hidden Gems
The idea to start Turning Gears came to me after reading two separate, but somewhat related books. Both are undeniably among the most incredible pieces in management literature. The first is Good to Great by Jim Collins and the second one is Outsiders by William Thorndike. Each author …