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Putting your Employees First in the Hybrid World

Decker Communication

While I loved all my roles, one in particular really helped me grow as a leader — managing a call center in financial services. The energy in a call center is incredible. Nothing could beat the excitement of the market close, especially on a big day where the market was either way up or way down.

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Putting your Employees First in the Hybrid World

Decker Communication

While I loved all my roles, one in particular really helped me grow as a leader — managing a call center in financial services. The energy in a call center is incredible. Nothing could beat the excitement of the market close, especially on a big day where the market was either way up or way down.

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The Big Picture of Business – Avoid the Tired, Trite Terms: Encourage Original Thought, Focus on Priorities and Strategy

Strategy Driven

Used out of context, words become excuses, gibberish, rationales and basically wastes of energy. The ‘brand’ is a marketing term. ‘Customer care’ means that customer service is palmed off on some call center. Words count. Put together, they reflect corporate culture. About the Author.

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Why Great Leadership Can Always Use More Cowbell

Terry Starbucker

Those “extras” always stand out – in fact, they typically provide an extra dose of positive energy that makes a huge difference for anyone who comes under their spell. We came up with a cover letter to go with the shirt, personally signed by me, and then, at our weekly management conference calls, I started to hand them out.

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A Step-by-Step Plan to Improve CMO-COO Collaboration

Harvard Business Review

If it’s all about the operations then you lose sight of the customer. For example, a call center may pride itself on completing X percentage of service calls within 30 seconds, but that’s not a valuable metric for determining overall customer satisfaction – or what the customer then does after that service interaction.

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Emerging-Market Engineers Power Global Innovation

Harvard Business Review

Its Gen2 "machine-room-less" product replaced woven ropes with flat polyurethane-coated steel belts for savings in noise, energy consumption, and space, eliminating the traditional rooftop "machine room." (One One such example is a rack-mounted storage server system for the "cloud computing" market. Original Design Manufacturers.

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The Rebirth of the CMO

Harvard Business Review

Instead, the last few years have seen a proliferation of C-suite titles that include a component of marketing. This diversity reflects not only a deepening understanding of the connection between growth and customer satisfaction, but a much greater awareness of what marketing can do to help forge that bond.

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