Month: August 2017

Leading with the GOOD: A must have for customer experience success

I am convinced that if you want to offer consistently outstanding customer experiences, you will need to align your organization around a fundamental belief. Namely, that “people are intrinsically good.” Philosophical and Practical Okay, this blog may seem a bit esoteric and in the purview of philosophers, not business leaders. We all know that philosophers,…

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United Airlines: Big Data to the Rescue of the Passenger Experience?

It’s hard to believe it has been seven months since United Airlines faced the first of three monumental customer experience debacles. Here’s a walk down that pothole-riddled memory lane: January 22nd all domestic flights were grounded for 2.5 hours due to a problem with a computer system that provides technical information to pilots. February 8th…

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Guilt or Greatness? Associations that Affect Customer Perception

When I was a kid, one of my mother’s favorite “mom-isms” was…tell me who you run around with and I will tell you what you are. Like many of my mom’s seemingly esoteric pearls of wisdom, that phrase was probably lost on me in my youth. Today, however, I understand the power of associations –…

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Differentiation Strategy: Flying on Segmentation, Experience Design, & Relevant Messaging

There must be something wrong with me. I am generally content with my airline experiences and I have a lot of them. I’ve also been willing to forgive many of the service breakdowns I’ve experienced as a traveler – as long as I can get to my venue safely and in advance of the time…

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Recovering Business Trust: Listen, Admit, Apologize, Fix

This will be my third and final installment on what has become a mini-series about trust and business. Over the past couple blogs, I reported a trust gap, emphasized the need to extend trust to customers, and outlined an initial list of qualities possessed by trustworthy leaders. This week I’ll look at one of the…

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