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When I was a very young journalist, full of bravado and barely concealed insecurity, Ed Kosner, editor of Newsweek, hired me to do a job I wasn't sure I was capable of doing. Thrown into deep water, I had no choice but to swim. But I also knew he wouldn't let me drown. His confidence buoyed me.

The more leaders make us feel valued, in spite of our imperfections, the less energy we will spend asserting, defending and restoring our value, and the more energy we have available to create value.

google_protectAndRun("ads_core.google_render_ad", google_handleError, google_render_ad); Essay on Supply Chain Management: Challenges of the Supply Chain Management The main goal of any business concern is to meet the two broad objectives of reducing cost and obtaining the maximum customer satisfaction. If the business world was a quiet and fully predictable environment, these objectives can be met easily.

The unmanageable and manageable categories are, large complex supply chains having hundreds of unexpected events occuring every day, generating the need to trigger hundreds of re-planning cycles to maintain a constant balance between demand and supply. With this perspective in mind, probably the magnitude of the gap that exists between current Supply Chain Management processes and full Supply Chain Management optimization is very high.