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Success Begins with Quality Customer Service

Chart Your Course

A recent Bain Capital Customer Loyalty study found that consumers are four times more likely to do business with a company that provides good customer service versus a competitor that offers a lower price. Retention Is Key.

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Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)

Coaching Tip

The goodwill and more passionate relationship generated within the community translates into a far higher demand for our products and services, into more love and loyalty for our brand, and so into major contributions to the bottom line. This creates a virtuous cycle through which everyone is enriched.

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Five Reasons WHY Leaders Need Emotional Intelligence Training

The Center For Leadership Studies

McKinsey recently noted, “Numerous studies show that in a business-as-usual environment, compassionate leaders perform better and foster more loyalty and engagement by their teams. However, compassion becomes especially critical during a crisis.” The secret of organizational change is empathy. Harvard Business Review. Harvard Business Review.

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Just for Entrepreneurs: How to Choose the Right Financial Adviser

Strategy Driven

Titus III, CPA/PFS, AIFA founded AMDG Financial and AMDG Business Advisory Services in 2002 based on his 15 years’ experience at two large accounting firms working with Fortune 50 clients. As a fee-only fiduciary adviser, his loyalty is to his clients: he places their interests ahead of his own or his firm’s.

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Marketing to Women: A book review by Bob Morris

First Friday Book Synopsis

Marketing to Women: How to Understand, Reach, and Increase Your Share of the Largest Market Segment Marti Barletta Kaplan Business (2002) How to Succeed in the World’s Largest Market Segment In this uniquely informative volume, Barletta answers three separate but related questions: “What makes women a worthwhile market?”, “Why market differently (..)

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Love is at the Heart of Strong Leadership

The Practical Leader

These are the same managers loudly pronouncing goals of higher employee engagement and increased customer loyalty. He shows that the most successful organizations create fanatical loyalty that goes way beyond reason to highly charged emotional connections. The L-word makes hard-nosed managers squirm. ” Ya gotta love it!

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The Answer to Short-Termism Isn’t Asking Investors to Be Patient

Harvard Business Review

Toyota has a class of shares that gives investors “loyalty dividends” if they hold onto them for five years. Third, even taking the existence of a large shareholder as given, loyalty dividends encourage only holding for the long-term, rather than stewardship. Some companies take matters into their own hands.