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Creating A Customer-Centric Culture – The Disney Way

Tanveer Naseer

One of my clients once defined it as what employees do when everything else is stripped away or what they do when no one is looking. More recently, executives have learned that creating a customer-centric culture can lead to a huge competitive advantage. The following is a guest piece by Bill Capodagli. In 2005, J.

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How to Conduct a “Customer Listening Session” | Top Executive.

Tony Mayo

2 A simple, high-return method of learning from your happy and unhappy customers, of knowing your customers better while making them more loyal to you is to listen to them. There are many ways to do this. After meeting with the customers, I brief the client executive team on what I have learned. Plan to have 6-12 participants.

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Keeping Your People Engaged in Tough Times

Marshall Goldsmith

Heskett and W. These employees recommend new employees to the organization, and participate in efforts to improve current products, services, and processes. Here are three things you can do to maintain and foster an ownership culture: 1. Marshall: I hear this concern every where I travel these days. Who doesn't? Earl Sasser, Jr.

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To Be an Authentic Leader, Practice Every Day - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM DISNEY INSTITUTE

Harvard Business Review

It is a question we are hearing more frequently from participants in our Disney Institute training courses. In his book The Culture Cycle , James Heskett defines culture in a simple way: “It’s often explained as being ‘the way we do things around here’ – what goes and what doesn’t.”