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Innovative Service Leaders Nurture Trust

Lead Change Blog

He was the CEO of one of the most innovative service companies on the planet. Innovative service leadership relies on the naturalness of valued relationships instead of “proper” dealings, artificial structures, and contrived pecking orders. It takes trustful leadership to nurture employees who consistently deliver innovative service.

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Featured Leading Voice: Chip Bell

Lead Change Blog

This month we are featuring Leading Voice Chip Bell , author, renowned keynote speaker on innovative customer service, and consultant/speaker to such organizations as Microsoft, Nationwide, Marriott, Lockheed-Martin, Cadillac, Ritz-Carlton, Caterpillar, Verizon, USAA, Harley-Davidson, and Victoria’s Secret.

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Generating Data on What Customers Really Want

Harvard Business Review

Managers use cost-related data as an objective input for decision making, since they consider it both reliable and reasonably predictable. Disruptive innovation practitioners have just such a tool for reliably predicting customers’ behavior. Innovation Strategy' How do you do that? Persuading with Data. An HBR Insight Center.