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CX professionals are the best (and worst) Customers

The Wall Street Journal has a daily column called “Best of the Web Today.”  Its originator, James Taranto, created it as a bit of a light-hearted end-of-the-day quick-hit piece with a bit of political commentary thrown in as well.  A recurring gag is to make little jokes about headlines published around the Web that, regardless [...]

By |2020-12-14T16:36:57+00:00December 14th, 2020|Consulting, CX Culture, CX Jobs, CX Strategy, CX Thoughts|Comments Off on CX professionals are the best (and worst) Customers

Some non-CX thoughts on Tony Hsieh

The turn in the narrative regarding Tony Hsieh’s death has been striking over the past few days as stories (like these in the Journal and Forbes) began to come to light based on accounts from those who knew him better than the rest of us who had merely admired him from afar.  While the universal [...]

By |2020-12-09T16:12:24+00:00December 9th, 2020|CX Culture, CX Thoughts, Leadership|Comments Off on Some non-CX thoughts on Tony Hsieh

Unnecessary escalations

This spring and summer have been rough on travel.  My partner and I actually had a hotel cancel our reservation after the world ended.  It was complicated by the fact that we’d used a combination of credit card points and cash to make the reservation for two different rooms, one for us and one for [...]

By |2020-11-30T16:57:07+00:00November 30th, 2020|CX Culture, CX Strategy, CX Thoughts|Comments Off on Unnecessary escalations

Good CX Principle #3: Take on the stress

Today I’m posting the third article in a five-part series on the Principles of Good CX.  There’s an intro to the series here, and parts one and two are here and here, respectively. I’ve previously mentioned the tongue-in-cheek observation that our jobs would all be a lot easier without the Customers, right?  (Forget that our jobs [...]

By |2020-11-16T15:46:23+00:00November 16th, 2020|CX Culture, CX Strategy, CX Thoughts, Principles of Good CX|Comments Off on Good CX Principle #3: Take on the stress

Good CX Principle #1: Get it Right

In my time as a CX professional, I’ve developed what I call the Five Principles of CX.  I’ll go through them over the course of five articles starting here with the first one:  Get It Right (GIR).  (I posted an introduction to the series here.)  Although not universally the case, and it’s not a good [...]

By |2020-11-11T19:25:28+00:00November 11th, 2020|Consulting, CX Culture, CX Strategy, CX Thoughts, Principles of Good CX|Comments Off on Good CX Principle #1: Get it Right

For a CX leader, don’t hire from within your industry

There’s a meme going around LinkedIn these days about a job posting that requires of the ideal candidate experience that’s physically impossible:  a history of use of a platform or programming language that’s longer than the language’s existence in the first place.  There’s even been a mocking job posting put up with a cascade of [...]

By |2020-09-17T13:33:10+00:00September 17th, 2020|CX Culture, CX Jobs, CX Thoughts, Leadership|Comments Off on For a CX leader, don’t hire from within your industry

Dynamism over products or services

There are articles all over the place and books overloading shelves in the business section of the stores having to do with strategies and branding.  One of the theories that I find appealing is that, when it comes to strategies and visions and missions, it’s important to leave your products or services out of these [...]

By |2020-09-03T14:51:39+00:00September 3rd, 2020|CX Culture, CX Strategy, CX Thoughts, Leadership|Comments Off on Dynamism over products or services

Building a Customer-centric culture

Here is the final post in a series about building a world-class CX program in your organization.  I introduced the component parts here, expounded on aligning your CX strategy here, delved into the Voice of the Customer here, and showed how to put it into action with your Process Engineering program here.  Now it’s on [...]

By |2020-08-19T14:54:33+00:00August 19th, 2020|CX Culture, CX Strategy, CX Thoughts, Leadership|Comments Off on Building a Customer-centric culture
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