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Leadership Inspirations – Opportunity and Work

“I believe that opportunity looks a lot like work. I never had a job in my life that I was better than.” Ashton Kutcher American Actor “I sometimes met rich young people, enemies by temperament of every painful effort, who had been forced to take up a profession. Their nature and their fortune permitted them […]

Recommended Resources – Promote Yourself

Promote Yourself: The New Rules for Career Success by Dan Schawbel About the Book Promote Yourself by Dan Schawbel provides tangible advice for gaining the visibility necessary for career advancement without appearing to be overtly self-serving. Dan delves into the hard and soft skills needed for success in today’s professional world as well as what […]

Jeffrey Gitomer

Are your sales historical or hysterical?

Summer’s over. Back to school. Boy, there are some memories. High school. College. Subjects you loved, subjects you hated. Teachers you loved, teachers you hated. THE QUESTION IS: What did you learn in school? What lessons are you still using? I have 2.5 major, early and later school-learned lessons I am grateful for: 1. Grammar […]

Jeffrey Gitomer

Using Instagram is not an option; it’s an opportunity!

QUESTION: Why did Facebook pay one billion dollars for Instagram? ANSWER: So that instead of worrying about how many people joined Instagram (and abandoned Facebook), they could brag about it. Are you on Instagram? I am. All of my family is. ALL of my family is. Daughters, granddaughters, in-laws, outlaws. All of them. All of […]

Jeffrey Gitomer

Like me! Why should I like you? Eh, I have no idea!

If you can remember that far back in Facebook history (2007), it started as a ‘fan’ page. Then one day (way back in 2010), out of the blue, Facebook decided to change it to a ‘like’ page. Why did they change it? Here’s their reason: “To improve your experience and promote consistency across the site, […]

The Emerging Strategy of Innovative Service

The world of the customer has dramatically changed. The tough economy has made customers more value conscious, demonstrating far more caution in how they spend their hard-earned dollar. The proliferation of self-service (while a blessing when it works) has made customers more frustrated when they feel trapped in a process with no live person to […]

Jeffrey Gitomer

The POWER of Sales Success. It’s all within you!

Last week I talked about the power of sales success and gave you the first ten personal powers you need to possess in order to have all of the sales success you desire. As a professional salesperson, you want more selling power and this two-part article reveals the sources. Let me share with you the […]

Key Leadership Strategies to Identify, Manage, and Prevent Office Idiocy

Office Idiots are those individuals whose actions, inaction, antics, and ridiculous behaviors generate widespread dissatisfaction and undercut the performance and productivity of fellow employees near and far and at any job level. Importantly, an organization’s leadership plays a critical role not only in terms of identifying office idiocy, but also from the standpoint of taking […]

Jeffrey Gitomer

The POWER of Sales Success is 100% in Your Control

Every salesperson wants to think of him or herself as powerful but, if asked, would have no idea where their power actually comes from. Most salespeople fail to understand their own power. The reason they don’t is that there is a heavy concentration on what cannot be controlled or what is not being done. This […]