Jeffrey Gitomer

What has the last twenty years taught me about the next twenty?

I’m celebrating my 20th year of writing about sales, networking, loyalty, trust, attitude, leadership, business social media, and personal development. My core of information transformed into a body of work that includes 11 books – all bestsellers. I did it while you were watching TV. I chose to write instead of watch. Last week I […]

StrategyDriven Resource Management Article

Resource Management – Value of Effective Resource Management

All organizations are resource limited and it is this limitation that forces executives and managers to become effective at prioritizing the deployment of company assets or risk marketplace failure. This reality places effective resource management at the heart of what it means to be a StrategyDriven organization – the deployment of organizational resources for the optimal achievement of mission goals.

Jeffrey Gitomer

A celebration of consistency. A legacy of insight.

This is the 20th anniversary of my first column. Sales Moves first appeared in the Charlotte Business Journal on March 23, 1992. The column was an instant success. It soon found its way to Dallas, Atlanta, Denver, Philadelphia, and a bunch of other cities. My column has appeared in more than 250 publications. Mark Ethridge, […]

StrategyDriven Risk Management Best Practice Article

Risk Management Best Practice 3 – Procedure Annotation and Commitment Tracking

Maintaining compliance with regulatory requirements, industry guidelines, and organizational commitments is the responsibility of every employee. Compliance typically occurs on a day-to-day basis through the performance of common policies, processes, and procedures. Subsequently, most organizations embed the actions necessary to achieve compliance within their instructional manuals. Ensuring these actions are both followed and remain in place over time is key to a successful compliance program.

Leadership Inspirations – Experience

“The trouble with using experience as a guide is that the final exam often comes first and then the lesson.” Anonymous

StrategyDriven Podcast Video Edition 4 – Employee Engagement: Untapped bottom line potential

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 principle, best practice, and warning flag articles found on the StrategyDriven website. Episode 4 – Employee Engagement: Untapped bottom line potential explores the principle components […]

StrategyDriven Organizational Accountability Warning Flag Article

Organizational Accountability Warning Flag 1 – Equality of Outcomes

No two individuals are exactly alike; therefore, each uniquely contributes to the organization. Subsequently, it is reasonable to expect that each individual’s efforts will result in a unique value contribution to the organization. In the accountable organization, this value is proportionately rewarded. Thus, no two individuals should expect to consistently receive the same reward outcomes.

StrategyDriven Expert Contributor Hank Moore

The Big Picture of Business: Been There, Done That

People Often Say They Have… But Really Haven’t! How to Pick the Right Consultants for Your Company Selecting the most appropriate consultant for your company and optimizing their expertise is the greatest challenge facing a decision maker. It’s lonely at the top. Certain kinds of objective information cannot come from within your own camp. True […]

Recommended Resource – Creative Thinkering

Creative Thinkering: Putting Your Imagination to Work by Michael Michalko About the Reference Creative Thinkering by Michael Michalko provides readers with actionable methods to tap into and broaden their natural creativity. Aimed at those who question their imaginative abilities, Michael reveals a systematic approach to generating new ideas through the association of two or more […]

StrategyDriven Risk Management Article

Risk Management – Value of Effective Risk Management

Most think of risk management as an insurance policy, the price paid to help prevent potentially negative outcomes. Such a view leads to the conclusion that risk management is a business expense with a highly subjective value proposition. Risk management, however, offers companies a great deal of value and StrategyDriven would suggest the insurance view is far too narrow. Instead, effective risk management enables a business to accelerate its operations and market entry, to become more aggressive, an approach that in today’s fast paced marketplace environment is immeasurably valuable.