Recommended Resource – Built to Sell

Built to Sell: Creating a Business That Can Thrive Without You by John Warrillow About the Reference Built to Sell by John Warrillow highlights the many factors preventing business owners from successfully transitioning away from their companies and how to resolve this situation. All too often, business founders embed themselves within the operational fabric of […]

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 […]

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, […]

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 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 […]

Leadership Inspirations – Living

“Its not dying you should be afraid of; it’s never having lived in the first place.” Seth Rogen in The Green Hornet

StrategyDriven Budget Management Warning Flag Article

Budget Management Warning Flag 1 – Across the Board Cuts

Turbulent economic times typically require budgetary constraint and even cutbacks. As business slows and revenues decline, executives demand managers reduce spending and increase production efficiency. Waste cannot be tolerated and must be rooted out.
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Leadership Inspirations – Live for Today

“Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.” Albert Einstein Awarded the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics, named Time’s Man of the Century in 1999, and best known for his conception of the theories of special and general relativity