StrategyDriven Expert Contributor Hank Moore

The Big Picture of Business – Developing The Talent for Business to Succeed

A Primer on the Workforce, Levels of Jobs, Plateaus of Professionalism It’s lonely at the top. Corporate executives must develop themselves for the next level and to be useful to their companies and communities in the future. This is a primer for executives and the heirs apparent to company leadership. Critical topics include leadership development […]

StrategyDriven Podcast Episode 40 – The Big Picture of Business: Learning from the Recession and Moving Forward

StrategyDriven Podcasts focus on the tools and techniques executives and managers can use to improve their organization’s alignment and accountability to ultimately achieve superior results. These podcasts elaborate on the best practice and warning flag articles on the StrategyDriven website. Episode 40 – The Big Picture of Business: Learning from the Recession and Moving Forward […]

Jeffrey Gitomer

What is the value? Where is the value? Who perceives the value?

You have been making value perceptions and value judgments your entire life. You may call them decisions, moments of truth, or actions. Intuitively they focus around value – and your perception of it – or the weight you put toward it as these decisions or actions are taken or made. It’s the same in sales, […]

Leadership Inspirations – A Little Inaccuracy

“A little inaccuracy saves a world of explanation.” Clarence Edwin Ayers (1891 – 1972) Institutional economist

Jeffrey Gitomer

The hard side of training, and the soft side of learning.

When a new sales representative is hired, a company provides what is known as orientation and ramp up. Once those elements are complete, the company believes the salesperson can go out and begin earning money. First, it’s a heavy dose of product training. The company and their trainers will spend days, sometimes weeks, on ‘what […]

StrategyDriven Expert Contributor Hank Moore

The Big Picture of Business – The Realities of Branding… Slogans that Mislead

It is both comical and sad to analyze certain promotional hype that one hears. Some companies claim that purchasing their product is the ‘be all, end all’ panacea for life’s dilemmas. If only you will buy their version of ‘The Answer,’ then you can surely fast-forward your way to instant riches, success and an easy […]

Recommended Resource – The Leader Phrase Book

The Leader Phrase Book: 3000+ Powerful Phrases That Put You In Command by Patrick Alain About the Reference The Leader Phrase Book by Patrick Alain provides professionals with the ‘right thing to say’ across a multitude of situations and spectrum of approaches. These phrases can help anyone prepare for interactions of all kinds with seniors, […]

Jeffrey Gitomer

What are you ready for? What are you waiting for?

I’m all Apple all the time. Since 1984. So far, Apple and Steve Jobs have changed the way computers run, revolutionized the mobile phone, and revolutionized the way music is distributed to a point that all retailers, distributors, manufacturers, producers, music groups, and recording artists are totally dependent on Apple for a sizeable share of […]

Leadership Inspirations – Throwing Things Away

“There are many things that we would throw away, if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.” Oscar Wilde(1854 – 1900) Irish writer, poet, and playwright

The Advisor’s Corner – Can a Manager Really Do It All?

Question: How can managers possibly do everything presented on the StrategyDriven website? StrategyDriven Response: Managers should be able to perform all of the best practices presented on the StrategyDriven website as these focus on the manager’s primary role – to manage people, resources, and their deployment. It is when managers are ‘working managers,’ doing the […]