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Business is a Laughing Matter

Lead Change Blog

Other research indicates that people are willing to change vendors to do business with people who know how to develop good relationships. Southwest Airlines has garnered loyal customers and employees but making humor a hallmark of everything they do. Believe me, laughter followed AND bonds were created. We all laughed.

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Five Steps to Fixing Bad Apps

Harvard Business Review

In other words, what are Citibank, American Airlines, Amazon, UPS, and Volvo doing to create engaging apps that bind the user to the company, build brand equity, and provide high exit barriers for customers (and equally high entry barriers for competitors)? Leaders in this space include American Airlines and American Express.

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You Can’t Engage Employees by Copying How Other Companies Do It

Harvard Business Review

Employee trust in management and commitment to the company have been in decline for decades. Only a minority of companies have managed to buck this decline and have built companies worthy of the human spirit. It takes a careful mix of mission, management, and culture. How do they do it? Sponsored by Citrix GoToMeeting.

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The Secret to Delighting Customers

Harvard Business Review

The theme park team didn’t consult a script or seek advice from managers. Airline JetBlue has embedded this philosophy in its hiring process. Watching how the applicants interact with one another enables hiring managers to assess their communication and people skills to an extent that wouldn’t be possible in a one-to-one setting.

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Win Back Trust with Raw, Unscripted, and Real Messaging

Skip Prichard

Raw as In-Process” refers to co-development, to how brands that communicate in frequent, collaborative bursts with their public create bonds of joint ownership. Ed Bastian of Delta Airlines comes to mind. What skills should leaders be developing to market this way? Is “heroic credibility” something we can credibly manage?

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Courtside Seats to the Best (And Worst) C-Suites

Harvard Business Review

As a management consultant, I often have a courtside seat to the senior team discussions of many companies. They have to make choices across the business in terms of investment opportunities or talent development — where to place executives to develop skills as future leaders, for instance. 2) Reset the rules of the game.

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Put the “and” Back in “Sales and Marketing”

Harvard Business Review

One important way to focus the effort is by managing the sales pipeline together. “It We have found that when this process works well, marketing often takes on an expanded role by, for example, providing sales with data analytics and by supporting the development and testing of sales plays for a specific micromarket or customer peer group.