StrategyDriven Expert Contributor Hank Moore

The Big Picture of Business – Developing The Talent for Business to Succeed

A Primer on the Workforce, Levels of Jobs, Plateaus of Professionalism It’s lonely at the top. Corporate executives must develop themselves for the next level and to be useful to their companies and communities in the future. This is a primer for executives and the heirs apparent to company leadership. Critical topics include leadership development […]

StrategyDriven Podcast Episode 40 – The Big Picture of Business: Learning from the Recession and Moving Forward

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 40 – The Big Picture of Business: Learning from the Recession and Moving Forward […]

Leadership Inspirations – A Little Inaccuracy

“A little inaccuracy saves a world of explanation.” Clarence Edwin Ayers (1891 – 1972) Institutional economist

Jeffrey Gitomer

The hard side of training, and the soft side of learning.

When a new sales representative is hired, a company provides what is known as orientation and ramp up. Once those elements are complete, the company believes the salesperson can go out and begin earning money. First, it’s a heavy dose of product training. The company and their trainers will spend days, sometimes weeks, on ‘what […]

Recommended Resource – The Leader Phrase Book

The Leader Phrase Book: 3000+ Powerful Phrases That Put You In Command by Patrick Alain About the Reference The Leader Phrase Book by Patrick Alain provides professionals with the ‘right thing to say’ across a multitude of situations and spectrum of approaches. These phrases can help anyone prepare for interactions of all kinds with seniors, […]

Leadership Inspirations – Throwing Things Away

“There are many things that we would throw away, if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.” Oscar Wilde(1854 – 1900) Irish writer, poet, and playwright

Jeffrey Gitomer

It’s not being best, it’s setting the standard.

When I say the words, ‘set the standard,’ what comes to your mind? Is it personal standards of yours? Is it standards that your business sets? Is it standards you have in your mind about other people? Is it standards you have in your mind about other products? When you go to a restaurant and […]

The Advisor’s Corner – Can a Manager Really Do It All?

Question: How can managers possibly do everything presented on the StrategyDriven website? StrategyDriven Response: Managers should be able to perform all of the best practices presented on the StrategyDriven website as these focus on the manager’s primary role – to manage people, resources, and their deployment. It is when managers are ‘working managers,’ doing the […]

StrategyDriven Practices for Professionals Article

Practices for Professionals – Make Your Electronic Calendar Visible

"Individuals should be ready and willing, at all times, to have their work observed by their manager."


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Leadership Inspirations – Actions Speak Louder Than Words

“What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.” Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 – 1882) American essayist, philosopher, and poet