StrategyDriven Professional Development Article

Professional Development Best Practice 1 – Maintaining Annual, Three, and Five Year Development Plans

The StrategyDriven Professional acts deliberately and with focus on achieving his or her short-term and long-term goals. Like any business seeking to optimize effectiveness and efficiency, these professionals develop for themselves annual, three-year, and five-year plans complete with near-term actions building on longer-term milestones and monitored by a comprehensive set of quantifiable performance measures. It is through using this plan that the StrategyDriven professional optimizes his or her efforts to achieving their ultimate personal objectives; minimizing the amount of effort wasted on superfluous activities.

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Practices for Professionals – Bring Options, Not Problems

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IT’S NOT ABOUT WORK-LIFE BALANCE. IT’S ABOUT SETTING PRIORITIES: 5 Reasons Why Focusing On Priorities Not Balance Makes Life Better

As a kid, I spent summers on my grandparents’ farm in Georgia. At harvest time, all hands were required in the field—everybody from my seven-year-old self to my seventy-year-old grandmother. If rain was coming, we pushed hard, missing meals and getting little sleep. Maintenance on the farm would slide. Personal needs would be set aside. […]

Jeffrey Gitomer

What can you do to get better? Follow the masters.

I began this year in retrospect by reading a 60-year-old book on the masters of selling. The book, titled “America’s Twelve Master Salesmen,” was written and published by B.C. Forbes & Sons in 1953. The book was based on the fact that each one of these master salespeople had one extremely powerful overriding principle or […]

StrategyDriven Management and Leadership Article

How to Employ Leadership Fundamentals… or Falter

Reddit, the on-line bulletin board system that posts entertainment, social networking and news content, gained a high profile, attracted Rock Star investors and a $500 million valuation. Then, it executed several strategic moves with seemingly little communication and proceeded to churn its executive ranks through a revolving door. In the process, Reddit upset nearly everyone; […]

5 Things All Entrepreneurs Can Learn About Success from Donald Trump

Love him or hate him, one thing’s for sure: all entrepreneurs can all learn a few things about success and leadership from Donald Trump. While The Donald continues to make headlines for his aggressive campaign to clinch the GOP nomination in the race to the White House, politics aside, it’s easy to see why Trump […]

Three Millennial Mindsets to Embrace and Encourage

What drives leadership performance? Is it having the right principles or the right mindset? Some may say neither do. Principles and mindset are not discussed often as being performance indicators. Communicating a vision, hiring the right people, and designing the right systems are more often highlighted as ways leaders can ensure performance. Although each are […]

Get Better Results by Looking at Your Team Differently

Why do you pay your team members? If you asked them, they might answer “You pay us to work.” If you ask an office-based worker what ‘work’ means to them, you’ll get a list of typical workday activities. They read and write emails. They write reports. They go to meetings and attend conference calls. Those […]

Jeffrey Gitomer

Want to Start Making an Attitude Change? Take Attitude Actions.

I define attitude as, “The way you dedicate yourself to the way you think.” Think negative or think positive is a choice and a process. Negative is (unfortunately) an instinctive process. Positive is a learned self-discipline that must be studied and practiced every day. To achieve a POSITIVE attitude, or as I have named it, […]

StrategyDriven Expert Contributor Hank Moore

The Big Picture of Business- When the Rules Don’t Fit the Game, Corporate Cultures Reflect Business Progress and Growth

Every business, company or organization goes through cycles in its evolution. At any point, each program or business unit is in a different phase from the others. Every astute organization assesses the status of each branch on its Business Tree™ and orients its management and team members to meet constant changes and fluctuations. It’s not […]