Richard Milam

Ensuring your business’s data integrity empowers profitable business decisions

A business’s life source is its data, and with the recent data breaches and cyber attacks, the state of a business’s data has become a top concern. Organizations rely on their data in order to make critical operational, tactical, and transactional business decisions that significantly affect the survival and livelihood of their company. The data […]

StrategyDriven Expert Contributor Hank Moore

The Big Picture of Business- Anniversaries Honor the Past and Build Support for the Future

Anniversaries are important milestones. Organizations reflect on their heritage and accomplishments. In doing so, they build and widen stakeholder bases, enabling organizations to grow for the future. I’ve recommended anniversary celebrations to client companies before. In each case, the results were phenomenal, because they took the effort to mount anniversary celebrations. In 1978, I was […]

Improve Marketing Emails to Boost Sales

Everyone has experienced the sensation of being overwhelmed by seemingly useless emails filled with coupons, special offers, information about new product launches and other messages you do not have time to read. Business users sent and received on average 121 emails a day in 2014, and this is expected to grow to 140 emails a […]

Jeffrey Gitomer

It’s a GREAT year so far… or is it?

How’s it going? I mean this year so far? Accomplishing what you thought you would? On the path of amazing achievement? Or are you stuck in neutral, or worse, reverse? I am AGAINST ‘having your best year ever,’ but I am in favor of ‘having a great year.’ How’s your year so far? Having a […]

Coping with Workspace Envy, What to do when your workspace options are limited

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to have table-sized touchscreen tablets like they do at Microsoft? Or to work in colorful open spaces like Airbnb’s new headquarters in San Francisco? For many companies, budgets are tight and options are limited — so there’s no way you can purchase funky new furniture let […]

Jeffrey Gitomer

Have your BEST year ever? Or have a GREAT year?

I’m challenging you NOT to have your BEST year ever. Rather, have a GREAT year. A great family year. A great achievement year. A great money year. A great health year. The secret of ‘great’ is NOT to start with ‘it.’ The secret of ‘great’ is to start with ‘you.’ ‘IT’ is I’m gonna buy […]

StrategyDriven Resource Management Article

To Outsource Is To Grow: Why It’s Good To Hand Over The Reins

One of the major problems faced by business owners all over the world is knowing when to let go. There are plenty of reasons why. As a company owner, you are used to making the decisions and there is a good chance you like to keep things under your control. As much as you like […]

StrategyDriven Expert Contributor Hank Moore

The Big Picture of Business – The Making of a Classic: Houston Legends. How Entrepreneurs and Business Made City Grow.

My sixth book is Houston Legends, a definitive history of a dynamic global capitol. Houston was the first word spoken from the moon. It is the hub of the world’s energy industry, headquarters of medical innovation and entrepreneurial phenomena. For 200 years, Houston has been the funnel to international commerce. Houston Legends contains secrets of […]

StrategyDriven Expert Contributor Hank Moore

The Big Picture of Business – How and When to Collaborate, for Best Business Advantage.

The biggest source of growth and increased opportunities in today’s business climate lie in the way that individuals and companies work together. This article is a follow-up to my last column, “Collaborations, Partnering and Joint-Venturing.” Situations Which Call for Teams to Collaborate Business Characteristics. Most industries and core business segments cannot be effectively served by […]

StrategyDriven Expert Contributor Hank Moore

The Big Picture of Business – Collaborations, Partnering and Joint-Venturing… Priority for Business.

The biggest source of growth and increased opportunities in today’s business climate lie in the way that individuals and companies work together. It is becoming increasingly rare to find an individual or organization that has not yet been required to team with others. Lone rangers and sole-source providers simply cannot succeed in competitive environments and […]