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When Your Hero Dies

Tailwind

His self-effacing ways were such that he didn’t negotiate hard on his own compensation, to his detriment, and to the eternal shame of the skin-flint owner of the Detroit Red Wings, Jack Adams. Murray Pratt President & CEO Tailwind Transportation Software Request a Demo Humility Gordie was a quiet superstar.

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Five Reasons SMBs Suddenly Make Sense For Forwarders

Freightos

Alibaba’s Jack Ma recently urged 3,000 US small businesses to do just that at a conference in Detroit, and he is making good on his vision to take down trade barriers that are holding smaller businesses back from buying and selling globally. Speaking in Detroit in June 2017, Jack Ma encouraged US sellers to increase their sales abroad.