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Improvement Imperative

One of the many adages that most of us know is, “Why fix what isn’t broke?” The idea is that we should avoid expending time and resources to improve something that is already working, especially if there’s a risk that we might accidentally take a good thing and make it…
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What Your Employees Need

The modern workplace is a dynamic, ever-evolving environment, so much so that we must all take care to understand its intricacies to stay ahead of the curve. This is especially true when it comes to employee satisfaction. After all, the key to actualizing employee potential is recognizing and addressing their…
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Customer Service vs Customer Experience

One of the more recent buzzwords in the field of hospitality is customer experience, often abbreviated as CX. These days, you can hardly escape the term; it is the saveur du jour of business consultants everywhere. But while it seems newfangled, its coinage is most often attributed to Lou Carbone,…
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Building a Customer-Centric Foundation

The most successful companies are the ones that place the customer experience above all other considerations. Yes, that even means over maximizing profits or emphasizing growth. Those customer-centric businesses understand that you need a strong foundation before you can build the rest on top of it. They understand that profits…
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Beyond Compensation and Benefits

The specter of the Great Resignation continues to haunt most companies around the country, as droves and droves of employees are resigning to pursue other opportunities. With the workforce in so much flux, many businesses—especially small proprietorships—are rightly concerned about losing their best employees and having to deal with a…
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Employee Fulfillment

In last week’s blog, we discussed the rising tide of employee turnover straining an already delicate economy. One key Gallup quote that should haunt all of us is, “Fifty-two percent of voluntarily exiting employees said their manager or organization could have done something to prevent them from leaving their job.”…
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The Tide of Employee Turnover

While The Great Resignation has thrust the problem of employee-turnover into the spotlight recently, it turns out that it’s not actually a new challenge. It’s been a long, long time since the norm was individuals working the breadth of their careers for one company and retiring with a pension. In…
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Caveat Emptor – Let the Buyer Beware

As the proverb instructs us, buyers should always be vigilant when making purchases, even going so far as to say that it’s a buyer’s responsibility to evaluate a product before agreeing to part with his money. You’d be right to think this principle is a bit unfair; after all, sellers…
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