The Four Cornerstones of a High Performance Culture, part 4

4. Strategic planning creates the platform for a healthy company. Strategic planning is a critical part of growing a successful business. A high performance work culture needs a system that makes sure that employee goals are aligned and everyone is focused on the right stuff. About the Authors Since working for his family’s boating business […]

StrategyDriven Tactical Execution Article

Tactical Execution – Improving Cross-Functional Performance

It’s difficult enough for a manager to align, streamline, and make efficient those business operations under his or her direct control; adding one or more other work groups to a process’s execution exponentially increases this challenge. Consequently, organizations stand to gain substantial productivity benefits through better cross-functional process execution.

Leading Through Volatility

As I write this on April 5, 2012, the Dow is above 13,000 and all indications point to signs of recovery. Notice the disclaimer, ‘As I write this.’ If we have learned nothing else in the past four years, let us remember that a stable, predictable economy may be a thing of the past. We […]

The Four Cornerstones of a High Performance Culture, part 3

3. Create corporate mission & values that employees are aligned with. The foundational material — mission and values — of a company can be critical to the overall success of the organization – but they’re often forgotten. The corporate mission and values are created by the senior leadership team, captured on posters, and strategically tacked […]

StrategyDriven Talent Management Best Practice Article

Talent Management Best Practice 3 – Know the Organizational Value of Each Employee

Do you really know the organizational contribution value of each individual working for you?

Jeffrey Gitomer

How have you progressed since the third grade?

“What I did on my summer vacation.” Every one of you have given a speech, or written a paragraph or essay about what you did on your summer vacation while you were in grade school. You wrote about the lake, the mountains, or the week at the beach. Or you gave a speech and your […]

Knowing Your Value

Knowing Your Value Women, Money, and Getting What You’re Worth by Mika Brzezinski About the Reference Knowing Your Value by Mika Brzezinski is a self confession and personal growth story about how a now prominent MSNBC morning show host discovered, demanded, and won compensation more inline with that of her peers. The story is complimented […]

The Four Cornerstones of a High Performance Culture, part 2

2. Have High Performance Work Teams throughout your company. Teams are powerful constructs, and high-performance ones do not spring up by magic. By the same token, business teams are not the answer for every performance issue. In corporations, while the talk is about teams and working together, there is actually a focus on individual performance. […]

StrategyDriven Budget Management Best Practice Article

Budget Management Best Practice 3 – Monthly Budget Presentations

Monthly business budget presentationBudget performance is important to the successful management of any organization and to the personal performance of individual executives and managers. Consequently, budget reviews occur on a monthly or quarterly basis; allowing enough time to pass for meaningful trends to develop but not so much time that corrective action could not be taken so to ensure a business group remains on budget.
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Jeffrey Gitomer

What’s the reason beyond BLAME? Maybe it’s YOU!

I overheard sales dialog on the airplane this morning. “He (the customer) has never responded to one of my emails, and never calls me back. The ONLY time he calls me is when he needs something.” Then back to devouring this week’s edition of US Weekly magazine. Sound familiar? Why do salespeople blame other people […]