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		<title>Business Management Books: The 25 Most Influential &#8211; Ever!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 May 2013 16:00:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Skelton</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Book Club]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In 2011, TIME Magazine assembled a list of what may be considered to be the 25 Most Influential Business Management Books of the modern era. Great books are timeless. They outlive their creators. They live on in the thoughts of their readers. They endure for generations and even centuries, in print or in digital format. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Marine Logistics: The Largest Ships Afloat!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 May 2013 13:00:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Skelton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So you think you know big. What you are about to read redefines the term &#8220;big&#8221;. In February of 2011, Mærsk line announced that it had commissioned Korea&#8217;s Daewoo to build the world&#8217;s largest ship. At a cost of  US$190 million, the 400 meter-long  &#8217;Triple-E&#8217; class behemoth will carry 18,000 TEU containers, 2500 more than the vessel [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Retail Renaissance: Supply Chain Best Practices Support New Marketing Channels</title>
		<link>http://supplychainalmanac.com/3536/retail-renaissance-supply-chain-best-practices-support-new-marketing-channels/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Apr 2013 14:00:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Skelton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just what is retail? I have had an intimate relationship with retailing for many years, and I am not sure that I really know the answer myself. I suppose that one might say at its most fundamental level, retailing is the process of establishing a connection with a consumer or end-user in order to facilitate [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Seven Tools of Quality</title>
		<link>http://supplychainalmanac.com/745/problem-solving-in-operations-management/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Apr 2013 22:00:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Skelton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Seven Great Tools by: John Skelton, Senior Editor Just what methods, specifically, might the supply chain practitioner use to assist in the solving of problems from an analytic perspective.? The following tools and techniques are frequently referred to as the “Seven Basic Tools of Quality.”All may be used to identify the root causes of problems: Pareto Analysis: Also [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Toxic Workplace: The Culture of Fear</title>
		<link>http://supplychainalmanac.com/94/the-toxic-workplace-avoiding-the-culture-of-fear/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Apr 2013 11:00:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Skelton</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ethics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Not only does fear destroy any sense of team spirit and pride, but it also shuts down important communication channels, inhibiting the flow of creative, constructive, and corrective ideas upstream. Just how might the front-line employee fall victim to fear at the workplace? In the 1992 classic movie Glengarry Glen Ross, Alec Baldwin masterfully portrays [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reshoring: A Viable Option?</title>
		<link>http://supplychainalmanac.com/2821/reshoring-a-serious-strategic-option/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Apr 2013 13:53:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Skelton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A significant trend regarding the repatriation of production operations into the USA from Asia  - otherwise known as re-shoring &#8211; is starting to emerge. Big American manufacturers are taking very seriously the option advocated by Harry Moser (The Reshoring Initiative)  - and many others &#8211; that by conducting a complete and objective assessment of all [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Inventory Record Accuracy: A Critical Operations Fundamental</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Mar 2013 17:15:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Skelton</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Inventory]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Can you imagine driving a car through a rain storm, without engaging the windshield wipers? Most of us wouldn&#8217;t dare try this. It is simply too dangerous. The performance capabilities of the car beneath us  - be it a 20-year-old sedan or a brand new SUV &#8211; would matter less to us than whether the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Crazy Bosses and Great Leaders: Is there a Middle Way?</title>
		<link>http://supplychainalmanac.com/4420/crazy-bosses-and-great-leaders-is-there-a-middle-way/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Mar 2013 22:29:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Skelton</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Leadership]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Certified Supply Chain Professional]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[What kind of a person is your boss? Because most of us work in such close proximity to our supervisor, we cannot help but ask ourselves that question on a regular basis. After all, they exert enormous influence on our lives both within and outside of our place of work. . Is your boss an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Child Labour: Poison to the Ethical Supply Chain</title>
		<link>http://supplychainalmanac.com/3485/child-labour-poison-to-the-ethical-supply-chain/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Mar 2013 00:00:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Skelton</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ethics]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[forced labor]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[For children, school is the best place to work. According to the International Labour Organisation, there are over 215 million children working across the world and of these 115 million are thought to be involved in hazardous work. The number of those between the ages of 5-14 and engaged in child labour is estimated by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Work Cells: The Heart of Lean</title>
		<link>http://supplychainalmanac.com/2503/work-cells-the-heart-of-lean/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Feb 2013 00:00:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Skelton</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Lean]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The &#8220;work cell&#8221; can be a pretty mysterious beast to anyone working outside of the Lean Six Sigma arena. But the simple fact is that most people already know how to design a work cell, whether they know it or not. It really is a matter of taking some rather common sense principles, and using [...]]]></description>
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