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Nowadays logistics is essential for almost any type of business. The ongoing discussion on climate change has recently led to the development of a new concept that goes by the name of “sustainable logistics”: a series of practices and processes which aim at improving the sustainability of supply-chain activities, ranging from the supply of raw materials to the transformation processes, the packaging, the storage, the distribution and the management of the end-of-life cycle of products. Also known as “green logistics”, this new approach targets the reduction of the environmental footprint by considering all the companies’ logistics activities which may impact…

Phil Jackson, one of the most famous NBA coaches, based his success on a fundamental principle: “The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team.” The importance of creating a high-performing team does not apply to sports only: in our contemporary society, it is vital for businesses as well if they really want to succeed in such a competitive world. More often than not, the success of a project depends on how quickly and efficiently single members of a group manage to work together as a team. Although in the last couple…