Organization Development

MMS Courier hosts driver appreciation events

I take to the open road, healthy, free, the world before me.”   — Walt Whitman MMS Courier held three driver appreciation events in June. The events were an excellent opportunity to demonstrate how valuable the independent contract driver team is in ensuring client deliveries are seamlessly completed safely and on-time. The team also shared critical […]

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The Rock and Roll of Delivering Excellence

“The little things in life make the biggest difference.”   — Sandy Gennaro Rock and Roll drumming legend Sandy Gennaro says “every single business on this planet exists to bring value to other people. Your product [or service] must enhance other people’s lives.” Gennaro speaks from experience gleaned over 52 years recording and performing in

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In an Agile organization everybody rows the boat.

Agility accelerates teamwork College football coach P. J. Fleck gained national notoriety with a highly motivational style fueled by a very simple call-to-action: “row the boat.” Fleck now head of the University of Minnesota football program, says “row the boat represents hope, energy, and purpose.” According to an interview broadcast by ESPN radio,  Fleck attributes

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Agility isn’t Automatic — It’s an Outcome.

“Agility energizes teamwork.” Agility is a popular word in today’s business lexicon. According to McKinsey’s Aaron De Smet “agility is the ability of an organization to renew itself, adapt, change quickly, and succeed in a rapidly changing, ambiguous, turbulent environment.” De Smet, a principal in McKinsey’s organization design group goes on to say that “agility

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Agility enables and elevates teamwork

The agile organization focuses on teamwork as the primary means of melding people, process and technology into an environment of elevated performance and continuous improvement. Christopher Mims, Technology columnist with the Wall street Journal, writes; “Alongside life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, you can now add another inalienable right: two-day shipping on practically everything.

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Diversity of talent, instruments, and voices gives organizations the vibrancy and brilliance of a Symphony

“A symphony must be like the world. It must contain everything.” Gustav Mahler, Composer and Conductor Imagine an orchestra comprised of flutes only. Or a choir entirely composed of baritones. What if Beethoven used but one note in composing a symphony? Complete nonsense, right? Like most things in life, music is at its best when

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