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Texas Roadhouse and a Leader’s Legacy

Mark Sanborn

A personal note: This post is a tribute to Kent Taylor, founder and CEO of Texas Roadhouse who tragically passed in March 2021. Kent Taylor, founder of Texas Roadhouse, not only openly admits that three of his first five restaurants failed, but he has a memento from each mounted behind his desk with a plaque detailing the money lost. .

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The Internet of Things Is Changing How We Manage Customer Relationships

Harvard Business Review

And then you can view that data by shoppers’ age, gender, average spend, brand loyalty, and so on. The Future of Operations. Not only can you tell that Customer A (who has a shopping app) went into a Lord & Taylor store to buy an expensive pair of shoes (which you could know with CRM). Insight Center.

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When Digital Marketing Gets Too Creepy

Harvard Business Review

The digital marketer who effectively runs Qantas Airlines'' highly regarded — and very successful — loyalty program has an unusual iPad problem. I''ve personally and professionally experienced similar pathologies experiencing "customer support" from credit card companies, financial services firms, airlines and telecoms operators.

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Followership : Blog | Executive Coaching | CO2 Partners

CO2

Although most people do not have the personal magnetism of an Oussama Bin-Laden or a Martin Luther King, there is a subset of people who can engender a strong sense of loyalty in others. Trust is a common factor in the cost-benefits analysis, compliance with authority, or loyalty to leaders hypotheses.

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The Management Thinker We Should Never Have Forgotten

Harvard Business Review

Berwick’s talk began by deftly comparing Frederick Winslow Taylor and W. Berwick’s talk spanned a pantheon of management thinkers to show the audience just how far we have come from Taylor to Deming in the 20th century. The contrast was driven home by a full-blown reenactment of Deming’s famous red bead experiment.

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