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Unexpected Leadership Lessons that Mobsters Can Teach Lawful Leaders

Leading Blog

The Mafia values immorality, loyalty, resourcefulness, and steadfastness and attracted and retained mobsters with these values. Staying in the family required unyielding loyalty and a code of silence. Wannabe Mafioso often waited decades before becoming made men.

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Retain Your Top Performers

Marshall Goldsmith

Leaders are debating the changing nature of work and the perceived decline in job security (the lifelong career at a benevolent company is a fading memory) and the erosion of corporate loyalty. The CEO of a leading telecommunications company recently embarked on an innovative approach.

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Building Partnerships

Marshall Goldsmith

As security has diminished, so has blind loyalty. The same trend is occurring in pharmaceuticals and telecommunications. Traditional “bonds” between employees and organizations have changed. Employees no longer expect that their organizations will provide them with job security.

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5 Ways to Increase Your Cross-Selling

Harvard Business Review

The financial services firm USAA prizes its relationships with customers and consistently earns the highest customer loyalty scores in the industry for both its U.S. telecommunications industry found that up to 60% of customers split their services across multiple providers for mobile phone, landline, TV, and internet services.

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Pricing Problems and The New York Times Digital Subscription

Harvard Business Review

If Netflix is where you want it to be, when you want it to be there, they know that breeds loyalty. It would be one thing if The New York Times was in a relatively non-competitive space like telecommunications or health insurance.

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How Customers Perceive a Price Is as Important as the Price Itself

Harvard Business Review

telecommunications carriers now compete fiercely on price as they try to win new customers. How can companies get more credit from consumers for their pricing, so they can build traffic and earn loyalty? Financial asset managers have been out-price-cutting one another in exchange-traded funds in a bid to gain market share. and Europe.

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The Hidden Wealth Beyond Net Promoter

Harvard Business Review

Net Promoter Score (NPS) is perhaps the best known customer loyalty tool around today, based on the entirely sound principle that the more customer promoters you have (i.e., That makes powerful sense, and the continued growth and success of Net Promoter is a testament to the idea's relevance and value.