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Add purpose to your goals so they’re meaningful

I write a lot about understanding why you’re doing something as a means of helping you to decide what to do and how to do it.  It’s an idea I’ve stolen from Simon Sinek who wrote a whole book about it in fact.  His book was general and strategic but I also apply it to [...]

By |2020-08-29T19:44:48+00:00June 17th, 2020|CX Strategy, CX Thoughts, Measures & Metrics, VoC|Comments Off on Add purpose to your goals so they’re meaningful

Don’t excuse it…solve it!

Customers don’t care about why you can’t get it done; they just want you to get it done.  Before you say that that sounds unfair, I’m not suggesting they want you to defy the laws of physics and make the impossible possible (well…usually they don’t).  Let me give you a small—yes, trivial—example: The other day [...]

By |2020-08-29T19:44:34+00:00June 10th, 2020|CX Culture, CX Strategy, CX Thoughts|Comments Off on Don’t excuse it…solve it!

Don’t try to be Zappos…Just do better than the DMV

There’s a saying in CX:  You’re not only competing against your industry peers, you’re also competing against Zappos.  While folks in the shoe business can take that sentiment seriously and literally, the idea is that Customers these days are getting more used to outstanding experiences from certain brands.  Besides the online shoe retailer, people point [...]

By |2020-05-22T15:41:20+00:00May 22nd, 2020|CX Strategy, CX Thoughts|Comments Off on Don’t try to be Zappos…Just do better than the DMV

Making the best of a bad situation

There’s saturation of Covid-19/coronavirus blogging these days, so I’m mostly avoiding it.  Naturally with a caveat like that, this’ll be a post about…Coronavirus of course.  But this isn’t about coping or stress or health-in-a-lockdown or how-everything-will-be-different or whatnot. Right as everything was beginning to hit, I was actually in Las Vegas speaking at a conference.  [...]

By |2020-08-29T19:42:41+00:00May 7th, 2020|CX Strategy, CX Thoughts, Leadership|Comments Off on Making the best of a bad situation

Hiring your CX Team

One of the most fulfilling things I’ve ever done as a leader was build a team.  Whether I’m actively looking or get a random call from a recruiter, usually the most intriguing potential aspect of a job is getting to hire people for a team.  I’ve learned a lot of lessons over the years about [...]

By |2020-08-29T19:41:08+00:00April 24th, 2020|CX Culture, CX Jobs, CX Strategy, CX Thoughts, Leadership|Comments Off on Hiring your CX Team
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