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I’d written previously about Goodhart’s Law, which goes along the lines of, once a metric becomes a goal it ceases to be a good measure. Now, I choose the words “metric”, “goal”, and “measure” all deliberately because they mean slightly different things (even if their subject is the same). A measure is the most generic [...]
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 [...]
When I left my last internal, corporate CX gig to go back into consulting, I wasn’t interested in taking on another full-time job. But a series of continuing interactions with recruiters and start-up founders has made me curious about it so from time to time I poke around on job boards and take a look more [...]
I recently took part in a discussion among CX experts regarding FCR, short in our parlance for First Contact Resolution. That it used to be called First Call Resolution speaks to one point I want to make. We struggled with this in the last job I had as the Director of CX: How to even define FCR. Some [...]
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. [...]
Business philosophers, book writers, keynote speakers, and basically anybody with an opinion on the subject will say that one key to success for an organization is to foster and encourage creativity and curiosity. That’s surely a good start, but where the rubber really meets the road and awesome things start happening is when members of [...]
I recently fielded a question from someone regarding moving NPS ratings from 8s to 9s. I asked why that was important. It was noticeable that the question was posed in terms of numerical scores, rather than moving Passives to Promoters, so I was curious. Digging a little further I found that the source of the question [...]
On several occasions I’ve had the opportunity to share an anecdote about a leader who once, in exasperation during a conversation I was having with him about Customer-centricity sort of threw up his hands a bit and exclaimed, “well, Z, we could just give every Customer a Ferrari, then they’d be happy.” Without missing a [...]
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 [...]
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