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Empowerment: Are you a micro manager?
By Rick Johnson
Athletes can be "over-coached." Are your employees being "over-managed?" Rick Johnson examines the differences between merely delegating tasks and empowering employees by encouraging them to be creative and innovative.
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Tough times: How bad are they?
By Tim Reynolds
The economy is slowing down and the sub-prime loan crisis has had a negative effect. But just how bad are things? And will they get worse before improving? Tim Reynolds has some suggestions about what businesses can do to stay above the financial madness. Read more


 

Shipping costs start to crimp globalization
By Larry Rohter
Think the price of fuel makes your commute to work more expensive? Imagine the impact fuel costs are having on the global supply chain—enough that a "neighborhood effect" is resulting, where businesses are placing factories closer to home in order to cut back on transportation costs. Read more

Mexico's appeal continues for U.S. distributors
By Joe Nowlan
Mexico’s economy is growing slowly but surely these days. As a result, it continues to draw manufacturers and distributors of all sizes. Read more

2008 Big 50

ID’s annual list of the largest industrial distributors is online now.

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SPECIAL REPORTS
 Big 50 2008: Our Annual List of the Largest Industrial Distributors
 61st Annual Survey of Distributor Operations
 2008 Compensation Survey
 Distributors, manufacturers and trade groups work to find industry's next generation of leaders
 Brown Smith Wallace Distribution Software Guide
ON-DEMAND WEBCASTS
>> Exit Strategies for the Family Business Owner
>> Coaching for Sales Success
>> Overcoming Price Objections
Commentary:

China’s Olympic venture

For the next couple of weeks, worldwide attention will be focused on China and the Olympic Games. 

Once the athletes go home, though, many challenges the country has been facing will remain. And many of those are affecting the country’s reputation as the center of global manufacturing.

Despite recent price drops, fuel costs are still high, and that has meant shipping costs are making the cost of globalization higher than ever.

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-Joe Nowlan,
Associate Editor
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