5 Steps to Effective Delegation
By Mike Cieri, Vice President, Mardac Consultants
A manager who does not delegate is not managing.
Delegation is accomplishing organizational purposes through the proper utilization of people.
Defined this way, delegation is equal with leadership. In fact, delegation involves skills that are necessary qualities of leaders.
Only responsibilities that demand personal attention, such as handling a performance problem, or duties inherent in the manager's job, such as setting his or her unit's goals, should not be delegated.
Michigan Finds Electronic Thieves at the Gas Pump
Remember when $4-a-gallon fuel was the biggest worry drivers had at the gas pump? State officials are tackling a new problem that might put a bigger dent in their wallets: Skimming.
Investigators have begun to find electronic machines inside gas pumps around Michigan that allow criminals to gather and store credit card information from unsuspecting drivers.
Toyota, U.S. Clueless About How ISIS Got Hundreds of Brand New Pickup Trucks
The U.S. government can’t figure out how ISIS terrorists got their hands on hundreds of brand new Toyota pickup trucks, and the Japanese automaker is stumped, too.
Top U.S. counterterror officials probed the automaker about how the Islamic State acquired a fleet of new cars after souped-up Toyota pickups loaded with weapons and packed with fighters began appearing in its propaganda videos, ABC News reported.
“This is a question we’ve been asking our neighbors,” said Lukman Faily, the Iraqi Ambassador to the United States. “How could these brand new trucks — these four-wheel drives, hundreds of them — where are they coming from?”
The Elements of Leadership
Do not miss our interview with the extremely bright and charming Kristi Webb, newly appointed president and CEO of Element Fleet Management. We sat down with her at the recent AFLA conference and asked her many questions – not just about the ongoing integration but what she thinks is important in the industry today. She was a fascinating interview.
We love the title of the On Accident Management article: How to Cut Your Fleet’s Net Accident Repair Costs by More than 20% a Year, Practically for Free! Who could resist?
Enjoy this issue, and be sure to check in at FleetManagementWeekly.com for daily updates.
Janice Sutton
Executive Editor
Toyota Developing Autonomous “Highway Teammate”
Paul Eisenstein/The Detroit Bureau
Toyota plans to roll out new technology that will allow its vehicles to autonomously navigate limited-access roadways. Dubbed “Highway Teammate,” and set to go into production by 2020, the system will be able to change lanes, merge with traffic and overtake slower vehicles.
Toyota is the latest automaker to lay out plans for the fast-emerging world of self-driving vehicles. But while its announcement is meant to underscore the maker’s technical prowess, it also reveals Toyota’s “cautious” nature, the Japanese giant still skeptical about the pace at which high-tech automobiles will be able to take over driving duties from humans.
