VoyageLA Interviews Common Cargo President Shirley Burke

VoyageLA posted an interview with Common Cargo President Shirley Burke this month.

Within the interview, Mrs. Burke shares how Common Cargo CEO Devin Burke went from VP of Gross sales for Common Cargo in 1991 to proudly owning the corporate with Mrs. Burke in 2000.

The husband and spouse crew went on to develop Common Cargo from an 8 worker operation into what it’s immediately.

Issues Mrs. Burke attributed their success to within the interview are:

• Prayer, belief, and reliance on God.
• Attracting and retaining the most effective and brightest expertise. Hiring and surrounding ourselves with folks smarter than us and who share our core values and rules.
• Studying, studying, and by no means ceasing to develop and develop ourselves as leaders.
• Passing on what we’ve discovered to others and serving to develop them to their full potential in enterprise and life.

After all, simply because the Burkes have had nice success as house owners of a freight forwarding firm within the worldwide delivery business, it doesn’t imply issues have at all times been easy crusing.

Within the interview, Mrs. Burke provides a captivating take a look at a number of the challenges she and Mr. Burke confronted alongside the highway to success as enterprise house owners. These challenges included working with a partner and an enormous monetary problem early of their possession of the corporate.

There are nice takeaways to be gathered from Mrs. Burke’s sharing of those challenges.

Not solely does Mrs. Burke share what it takes to work with a partner, she additionally shares precisely how she and her husband received by means of a monetary problem that would have ended their firm.

Afterward, Mrs. Burke takes a second to share precisely what a freight forwarder is and what units Common Cargo other than different freight forwarders, its core values: C.A.R.E. C – Prospects, A – Out there, R – Resourceful, E – Evolving.

To learn the entire interview, which is actually price doing, observe this hyperlink to VoyageLA.com.

VoyageLA is a publication targeted on the Los Angeles space. It’s the flagship publication of Voyage Media, which has expanded with publications masking different cities as properly.

Right here’s how the corporate describes its mission and editorial ethos:

Our small crew of 40 has been working exhausting to create a brand new sort of media for our neighborhood. As you flick thru our tales you’ll discover that a lot of our interviews aren’t as polished as you’ll discover elsewhere within the media. That’s intentional – we consider that far too many within the media filter, edit, and polish away the persona of interviewees and consequently a lot of what we see within the media feels prefer it’s coming from the identical individual, the identical voice, and many others.  We expect it’s vital for media to extra authentically characterize the communities they serve and so we attempt to make sure that voices of these we characteristic leap off the web page.

We additionally suppose artists rock.  We love small companies, mom-n-pops, and hole-in-the-walls. We’re not snobs, however we aren’t keen on most chains.  We expect unbiased entrepreneurs, freelancers and different danger takers make our cities thrilling to reside in.  We cherish the insurgent spirit, we don’t suppose only a handful of huge firms ought to management all of our commerce and we expect smores with vegan marshmallows are higher than regular marshmallows. We respect folks and organizations that take the trail much less traveled.  We root for the underdogs and we nearly by no means say no to pizza.

Accordingly our mission is construct a platform that fosters collaboration and assist for small companies, unbiased artists and entrepreneurs, native establishments and those who make our metropolis fascinating.  We need to change the way in which folks spend their cash – quite than spending it with the massive, cookie-cutter firms we would like them to spend their cash with the unbiased, artistic, native entrepreneurs, small companies and artists.

And eventually, we would like the tales we share to assist in giving our massive metropolis a bit of little bit of that small city neighborhood appeal, the place folks know one another and their tales at a deeper, extra private degree.

Mrs. Burke’s interview actually provides that private look inside Common Cargo. Mrs. Burke and the remainder of us right here at Common Cargo need to thank the crew at VoyageLA for that includes her and our firm of their publication.