Four Keys to Leading Change with Success

By Kyle Steffens, Manager-Strategic Accounts, AmeriFleet

“Change is the only constant.” We’ve all heard it over and over, and it’s true!

Change surrounds us in all aspects of our daily lives; it challenges us as individuals and as organizations to adapt and do it quickly. The pace of change is also astonishing.

How do we and the organizations we manage cope with the frequency and lightning pace of change? What can we do to help lead ourselves and our peers through these stressful yet exciting times?

Distracted Driving — Generational Performance

[Editor’s note: Mark Boada] -- A Plea from a Teen on Distracted Driving

We’ve heard for years now about the scourge of distracted driving, but it’s not often that we hear it from a teenager, as in this essay by 14-year-old Neleh Vigneau Sargeant. As you read her remarkable plea, keep in mind the following:

• Traffic accidents are the leading cause of death for people 15 to 20 years old.
• According to the U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, not teens but drivers aged 30 to 39 show the highest rate of cell phone distraction in fatal crashes.
• Parents set the example: teens whose parents drive distracted are two to four times as likely to drive distracted as teens whose parents do not.

By: Neleh Vigneau Sargeant, Grade 9, Newbridge Academy

Behavioural psychologist David Strayer claims that talking on a cell phone is as bad as drunk driving because you are four times more likely to be in a crash.

I remembered this fact as I sat on my school’s hockey team bus, watching the bus driver take a call while driving with 15 of my teammates aboard. The driver looked to be in his 30s and seemed to be very comfortable splitting his attention between the road and his phone, while the other passengers didn’t even notice the dangerous situation. I knew that I should speak up and regret that I didn’t, but this experience led me to look further into distracted driving, in particular, whether skill levels while multi-tasking behind the wheel differ by generations.

The Unique Challenges of Operating and Managing a Government Fleet

By Robert Martinez, Deputy Commissioner, New York City Police Department

Day in and day out, fleet managers are pulled in many different directions.

Some fleet managers are a one-man show, while some have a staff of more than four hundred people. There are fleets of five vehicles and fleets of 50,000 vehicles.

Government fleet managers get to see the fruits of their labor every day. Whether it’s a fire truck or a police car responding to an emergency or sanitation truck picking up garbage, the fleet manager is making it happen.

How Supply Management Certification Ties in with Fleet

Certification in Supply Management covers all the core business competencies needed to make the best decisions from a procurement standpoint - and it ties in very neatly with fleet management.