Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 21, 2012

Get the Right People : 9 Questions for Getting the Best Hires. by SuccessFactors. When it comes to hiring, it’s all about quality, not quantity. Are you getting the best? The most important decision a company makes about employees is whether to hire them. Whether a company succeeds or fails ultimately depends on whether it hired the right people to effectively execute its strategies.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 20, 2012

“All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.” Walt Disney (1901 – 1966). American film producer, director, animator, entrepreneur, and philanthropist. FREE StrategyDriven Trial Membership. Start your FREE trial membership * and receive: FULL ACCESS to StrategyDriven’s premium content for 14 days. FREE COPY of a StrategyDriven Expert Contributor book †.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 18, 2012

Building Team Power : How to Unleash the Collaborative Genius of Teams for Increased Engagement, Productivity, and Results. by Thomas Kayser. About the Book. Building Team Power by Thomas Kayser examines the structural mechanisms and behavioral traits that combined to create highly collaborative teams. Thomas provides practical, detailed methods for leaders at every level of the organization to foster and enhance the collaboration between team members in six critical areas: Mutual Trust.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 16, 2012

From birth, we as human beings have an insatiable desire to understand our surroundings. Regardless of one’s background, we tend to group and categorize things so to help establish order in our personal world. Such is the case in our business lives as well. There, like everywhere else, we attempt to assign a reason for why decisions are made, for why people act as they do, for why things are the way they are.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 15, 2012

A guy walks into a hardware store and says to the clerk, “I need a drill.”. Clerk says, “Well, not really. You want to make a hole.”. If you’re in retail and your customer comes in and says, “I need a drill,” or “I want a drill,” or “Where are the drills?” you, the salesperson, begin some response dialog. REALITY: He didn’t come for a drill. He needs a hole.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 14, 2012

Data, Data Everywhere : A Special Report on Managing Information. by SAP. Learn how businesses are transforming themselves based on the abundance of data, and benefits found in the various uses of information and the new methods of visualizing data. This special report from The Economist covers the phenomenon of the Data Deluge–everywhere you look, the quantity of information in the world is soaring.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 11, 2012

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 42 – Acquiring Management Experience focuses on how to gain management experience even if one does not currently hold a management position.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 8, 2012

I get a ton of emails from people seeking insight or asking me to solve sales dilemmas. Here are a few that may relate to your job, your life and, most important, your sales thought process right no. Jeffrey, I am a marketing and sales rep for a company that sells emergency cleanup services. I visit prospective customers almost daily, mostly insurance agents and property managers, and provide value.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 7, 2012

E-commerce Marketing : How To Turn Your Website Into Profit. by Resource Nation, Inc. This buyer’s guide will outline the ins and outs of the e-commerce world, and help you figure out where to get started. You will also receive multiple free price quotes from reputable e-commerce marketing providers by phone/email. Whether you are starting an e-commerce site to compliment your brick and mortar store, or you are strictly an online company there are many factors you need to consider before y

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 6, 2012

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” Mark Twain (1835 – 1910). American author and humorist. FREE StrategyDriven Trial Membership.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 4, 2012

The Pocket Small Business Owner’s Guide to Negotiating. by Richard Weisgrau. About the Reference. The Pocket Small Business Owner’s Guide to Negotiating by Richard Weisgrau provides readers with a complete set of practices and strategies for successfully negotiating through numerous situations. Richard explores both the psychology and activities occurring before, during, and after a negotiation.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 2, 2012

All choices require the decision-maker to deal with a degree of uncertainty and ambiguity. Many times the information needed to make the highest quality decision simply does not exist, is unavailable to the decision-maker, or cannot be identified within the decision’s needed timeframe. Consequently, these information gaps are filled with assumptions – the best educated guesses of the decision-maker and his or her team – in order to allow the decision-making process to move forw

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 1, 2012

Dear Jeffrey, I am a huge fan. I recently had a WOW experience that completely coincides with your philosophy on customer loyalty versus satisfaction. Today, I received the following email from Amazon: Hello, We noticed that you experienced poor video playback while watching the following rental on Amazon Video On Demand: The Hunger Games. We’re sorry for the inconvenience and have issued you a refund for the following amount: $3.99.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 5, 2012

In eras following downturns and scandals, it is incumbent upon good companies to go the extra distance to be ethical and set good examples. Demonstrating visible caring for communities by company executives is the ultimate form of potlache. The Business Tree : Growth Strategies and Tactics for Surviving and Thriving. by Hank Moore. Any company or organization is like a tree.

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