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Communication & influence · Pitching ideas

You want the board to fund an eight-figure warehouse automation program — goods-to-person robotics — but the payback stretches past three years and last quarter's margins slipped. You have ten minutes. How do you build the pitch?

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I open on the problem the board already feels, not the robots: labor is our fastest-rising cost line and peak-season temp fill rates are dropping every year — we're one bad hiring market from missing service commitments.

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