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How to Become a Healing Leader

Skip Prichard

Appletree Answers is a call center company created through a “roll up” of smaller companies. They got her into a hotel that night, and helped her get an apartment, helped furnish it, helped with the deposit etc. He thought, “I started this company, and a mother who works for me full-time is homeless. How is that acceptable?”

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Outsourcing the Old Folks

Harvard Business Review

The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel , a new film set in India and directed by Shakespeare in Love's John Madden (age 63), hangs its plot on the notion of "outsourcing" the elderly. They find new life instead of old age. She goes from being outsourced, to becoming a resource. Here too, Marigold's Sonny has some wisdom to impart.

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How Companies Can Identify Racial and Gender Bias in Their Customer Service

Harvard Business Review

Specifically, we audited 6,000 hotels in the U.S. On May 29, Starbucks will be closing all of its stores for its employees to receive a racial bias training. Does your company have call centers dedicated to handling customer complaints? Standardize scripts and develop rules. Map employee-customer touchpoints.

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What Circuit City Learned About Valuing Employees

Harvard Business Review

Initially rebuffed, he flew to Boston and called again only to be told the professor was still unavailable. Finally, he said, "I am staying at the XYZ hotel and will wait here as many days as necessary to see him." In a few minutes, the secretary called back and arranged an appointment for the next day.

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CMOs and CEOs Can Work Better Together

Harvard Business Review

But she also realized that the company needed to develop greater marketing muscle to drive a commercial transformation. In our experience, there are specific steps CEOs and CMOs can take to develop a working relationship that is dynamic and useful. Develop—and stick to—a marketing blueprint. Who should lead our transformation?

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