Jeffrey Gitomer

Leadership actions that are not an option for leaders.

“Where’s the action? Where’s the game?” is a line in the song “Oldest Established” from the immortal Broadway show (and my personal favorite) Guys and Dolls. For the uninformed, the show is about a craps game and a leader named Nathan Detroit. The movie version stars Frank Sinatra and Marlon Brando and won all kinds […]

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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 […]

Jeffrey Gitomer

Leadership words that need to be banned. Forever.

Pabulum leadership words really bug me – but not as bad as they may bug you if they’re uttered by your leader. Leaders are known by their words, deeds, actions, values, principles, and by the people they attract both on their team and in the world, but… It’s their words that set the tone for […]

StrategyDriven Expert Contributor Hank Moore

The Big Picture of Business: Fine Wine, Aged Cheese and Valuable Antiques. Professionals Who Go the Distance.

A professional’s career and their collected Body of Work encompass time, energy, resources, perseverance and lots of commitment in order to produce. This holds true for any company, institution and for any person. There are three key ingredients in developing deep leadership roots. Long-term success for the company and a healthy career for the individual […]

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

What you listen to can determine your mood and your fate.

Everyone has their own time machine. The only question is: how are you using it? The time machine I’m referring to is music. The music you grew up with and the music you listen to every day. I refer to it as the ‘music transportation department’ because the right song can transport you back to […]

StrategyDriven Expert Contributor Hank Moore

The Big Picture of Business: Why a Company Would Improve? The Art of Learning From Failure to Get Better.

Success is just in front of our faces. Yet, we often fail to see it coming. Too many companies live with their heads in the sand. Many go down into defeat because it was never on their radar to change. A colleague recently complained about her corporation: “Things are much the same at this company, […]

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 […]

StrategyDriven Podcast Episode 45 – Marketing & Sales: Closing the Value Gap

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 best practice and warning flag articles on the StrategyDriven website. Episode 45 – Marketing & Sales: Closing the Value Gap examines the evolution of the […]