Leadership
Prepare your successor and step down with grace
Succession is not an event, but a process, writes Alaina Love, who outlines three immediate actions leaders can take now.
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Customers
Does your business suffer from toxic customers or clients?
Toxic customers come in different flavors and circumstances. Naphtali Hoff outlines some you may meet in your business.
Travel
How to serve return-to-base business travelers
This piece is the last of four installments in a series exploring strategies for the hotel, lodging, meetings, and travel industries to effectively cater...
Infrastructure
Gevo’s Patrick Gruber on What’s Next for Sustainable Aviation Fuel
Can a sustainable fuel actually be carbon negative? Dr. Patrick Gruber from Gevo says yes. Yes, it can.
Leadership
Are you, as a leader, suffering from BMS?
Leaders of any gender or era can suffer from BMS -- boomer male syndrome -- if they rely on old-school tactics of command and control, says S. Chris Edmonds.
Infrastructure
Double Feature: E-Liability and Virtual Power Purchase Agreements
Learn more about environmental liability (E-liability), which is a simple, accurate, and verifiable calculation for the total cradle-to-gate emissions of any product or service. Also hear what companies should know when considering virtual power purchase agreements.
Consumer Insights
It’s not too early to talk about winter flavor trends
The most prepared restaurant operators are thinking past the flavors of fall to what’s ahead for the critical holiday and winter flavor trends.
Development
Sagacious leaders free up other’s wisdom — for free
Wisdom is all around us, Larry Robertson writes, and suggests top leaders seek out that wisdom and encourage their teams to do the same.
Infrastructure
Colgate-Palmolive’s Vance Merolla on Squeezing the Most Out of Sustainability Efforts
Vance Merolla, Senior Vice President of Global Sustainability at Colgate-Palmolive, discusses how that company tackles sustainability across all its products and brands.
Food
Getting the most out of urban grocery store design
Architecture and construction executives shared case studies and advice for getting the most out of urban grocery store design at the FMI Energy & Store Design Conference.
Food
Building the refrigeration technician workforce of tomorrow
Finding ways to recruit and retain refrigeration technicians will be key for HVAC and refrigeration suppliers and the retailers they serve, especially as they make the transition to natural refrigerants, a panel of experts said during a session at FMI -- The Food Industry Association's Energy & Store Development Conference this week in Baltimore.
Marketing
Brand partnerships: Epic crossovers every business needs
Brand partnerships are key to unlocking unlimited possibilities when it comes to building a brand's audience. SmartNews’ AJ Brustein dives into 3 factors that consumer-facing brands must keep in mind in order to get the most out of their collaborations.
Sponsored
Facing the building services hiring challenge
This piece is sponsored by TEAM Software by WorkWave In a tight labor market, commercial cleaning companies need help both recruiting and retaining a...
Education
Exploring teacher professional learning opportunities at the Smithsonian
The Smithsonian Institution offers many free professional learning opportunities for teachers, often held during the summer.
Analysis
AI is making networking and social skills more critical. Are your students prepared?
Social skills are a must for landing a job, but today's students lack the confidence to talk easily with adults. Here are ways to help.
Infrastructure
How Companies Are Leveraging Solar-As-A-Service
Harald Overholm, the co-founder and CEO of Alight Energy walks us through current solar trends in the Nordics and the rest of Europe
Digital Technology
Retail media: Why growth is moving off-site and in-store
Retail media is evolving fast – and Brandcrush’s Teresa Aprile details three key opportunities: in-store revival, off-site audiences and standards for measurement and process.
Leadership
Sexist humor at work is even more toxic than you thought
Sexist humor in the workplace may seem harmless, but new research shows it could undermine the careers of both men and women.
Infrastructure
Optimizing the Grid to Electrify Everything
3M's Terry Collier shares his insights on the latest technologies and strategies to bring more renewables online and enhance grid stability and resiliency.
Leadership
Advice on expanding overseas in uncertain times
Gavin O’Loughlin offers five steps for US companies seeking to expand their business to the European Union.
Digital Technology
How publishers can diversify revenue streams
For publishers to diversify their revenue streams, they have to know their audience and their content, before they can generate competition.
Consumer Insights
How stories are selling the new crop of fancy foods
Specialty food brands and their founders told their compelling startup stories at the Summer Fancy Food Show in New York City last month.
Sponsored
Online recipes influence what home cooks add to carts
Consumers are increasingly turning to online recipes for home cooking inspiration, and these recipes directly influence what they put in their grocery carts. Chicory’s “2023 State of Online Recipes” report explores how consumer packaged goods brands can tap into the power of online recipes to connect with consumers.
Consumer Insights
FMI leader lays out 6 imperatives facing the food industry today
Leslie G. Sarasin, president and CEO of FMI -- The Food Industry Association -- lays out six imperatives facing the food industry today and how the association is working with members to address them with a big-picture outlook.
Leadership
There is no cruise control in leadership
It would be handy to be able to put our leadership on cruise control, but Steve McKee writes it's better to learn to handle the curves.
Marketing
What reading trends mean for content marketers
Here is a three-pronged approach for content marketers to develop copy and content to engage with readers and keep them coming back.
Edtech
4 ways to humanize your school-home communications
Video messages, social media and personalization via a school-home communications system have helped make stronger connections.
Education
Do you have the school safety measures necessary for a safe learning space?
Prevention, preparedness and response are the three legs of the school safety stool. Technology offers helpful school safety measures.
Healthcare
New option on the horizon for children with PANS
Pediatricians may have a new option for treating children with PANS
Education
Do you have the school safety measures necessary for a safe learning space?
Prevention, preparedness and response are the three legs of the school safety stool. Technology offers helpful school safety measures.
Sponsored
Four tips to engaging with your customers post-purchase
How to keep customers coming back for more after their initial purchase.
Education
Physical school safety changes we made after a shooting at our middle school
An Idaho superintendent shares lessons learned after a school shooting and changes made to enhance school safety.
Career-Technical Education
Offering prior learning credits helps increase earning power
Getting college credit for prior learning can help people slash thousands of dollars from tuition and reduce time needed to complete a degree.
Sponsored
How AI can personalize the shopping experience
How ecommerce retailers use AI to improve customer satisfaction.
Education
National Teacher of the Year finalist: Alaskan village “unlike anything else in the world”
Frist-grade teacher Harlee Harvey of a rural village in Alaska is one of 5 finalists for the National Teacher of the Year.
Infrastructure
Farm-Powered Sustainability with John Hanselman from Vanguard Renewables
Learn how the agriculture sector is becoming more sustainable through the use of anaerobic digesters that take food waste and cow manure and turn it into products like natural gas, fertilizer, bedding for cows and cash for farmers.
Digital Technology
How to leverage marketing data automation in 2023
Data automation can breathe new life into that marketing data you’ve been collecting over the years, much of which is likely siloed and unorganized.
Education
Shifting focus: 4 ways to take a new view
Landing in a new environment or situation offers the opportunity for shifting focus, letting leaders exercise different approaches.
Food
What’s the big deal with small-format retail?
Whether it’s to fill a niche in suburban towns, plug into urban markets or meet the needs of college communities, many retailers – from traditional “big-box” to grocers and more – are adjusting their store models by shifting to smaller-format stores that occupy a fraction of the square footage of their traditional store models.
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Q&A: How to pair vegetables with turkey for nutritious meals students will gobble up
Familiar flavors can entice students to try new foods and eat more vegetables, and turkey is an especially appealing and versatile option for school foodservice operators, chef and nutritionist Brenda Wattles says in this interview.
Food
SmartSummit: Transformative technology trends and innovations in grocery retail
How grocery retailers are using new technology to glean shopper data, streamline operations and improve customer satisfaction.
Food
Q&A: Poly Cal expert, FMI execs talk responses to food inflation
Cal Poly's Ricky Volpe and FMI's Andy Harig and Heather Garlich meet with SmartBrief for an exclusive discussion on food inflation, consumer behavioral changes and grocery retailers’ adoption of new technology.