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How have you progressed since the third grade?

Strategy Driven

GOOD NEWS IS: You can influence both your image and your reputation with your CONSISTENT PERFORMANCE. Copyright 2007-2012 by StrategyDriven, Inc. The reason I’m harping on speaking and writing is because they are the foundation of the two most important elements of your success: image and reputation. Gitomer and Buy Gitomer.

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The Eiffel Tower: An iconic monument and a critical lesson.

Strategy Driven

Dale Carnegie, author of the 70-year bestseller, How to Win Friends and Influence People , nailed it in 1915 when he penned his most dominant principle, “Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain (and most fools do).”. Copyright 2007-2012 by StrategyDriven, Inc. Reprinted with permission from Jeffrey H. Gitomer and Buy Gitomer.

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A dozen books to own and read – at least once.

Strategy Driven

How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie. Jeffrey Gitomer is the author of The Sales Bible , Customer Satisfaction is Worthless Customer Loyalty is Priceless , The Little Red Book of Selling , The Little Red Book of Sales Answers , The Little Black Book of Connections , The Little Gold Book of YES!

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The Hidden Wealth Beyond Net Promoter

Harvard Business Review

Net Promoter Score (NPS) is perhaps the best known customer loyalty tool around today, based on the entirely sound principle that the more customer promoters you have (i.e., After all, these are customers who've said they'd be highly likely to recommend SAP. Move beyond promoters to defenders. It's too passive.

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HBR's Best Videos, Infographics, Podcasts, and Slideshows of 2011

Harvard Business Review

As you take some time to reflect, relax, and renew before the year to come, we offer you our most popular multimedia content from the year that was: podcasts, videos, slideshows, and infographics that we hope help you chart a successful course in 2012. Turn Customers into Promoters. Oh look, a squirrel! Video interview. Audio podcast.

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The Comprehensive Business Case for Sustainability

Harvard Business Review

Since its launch in 2012, Flyknit has reduced 3.5 Building Customer Loyalty. When firms fail to establish good relationships with their stakeholders, it can lead to increased conflict and reduced stakeholder cooperation. This can disrupt a firm’s ability to operate on schedule and budget. ” Improving risk management.

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What We Know, Now, About the Internet’s Disruptive Power

Harvard Business Review

Supplier relationships, brand identity, process coordination, customer loyalty, and many switching costs were all forms of information. But the questions of timing and scale are still the minds of Clay Christensen and Maxwell Wessell in 2012. But every business is an information business, they stressed.

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