How to Learn and Lead with Agility | Mindset & Agility – The Rocket Fuel for Customer Experience Success
In my last post, I spotlighted social psychologist Carol Dweck’s landmark work on growth mindset and offered a link between her research and customer experience excellence. Building on Dr. Dweck’s findings, let’s dive into the first of three posts that unpack Dr. W. Warner Burke’s model of learning agility. Professor Burke is an organizational psychologist…
Remove the NOT | Mindset & Agility – The Rocket Fuel for Customer Experience Success
This is the third post in a series titled Mindset & Agility – The Rocket Fuel for Customer Experience Success. For two weeks, I’ve focused on innovation tips from the classic book A Whack on the Side of the Head by Roger von Oech. I’ll finish sharing insights from that book this week and move on…
Embrace Ambiguity, Failure, and Fun | Mindset & Agility – The Rocket Fuel for Customer Experience Success
This is the second post in a series titled Mindset & Agility – The Rocket Fuel for Customer Experience Success. Last week, we started picking mental locks outlined in Roger von Oech’s classic book A Whack on the Side of the Head. This week we’ll focus on three more thinking processes that interfere with our…
There’s More than One Way | Mindset & Agility – The Rocket Fuel for Customer Experience Success
In 1983, while pursuing a Ph.D. at the University of Southern California, I got a creative nudge from the book A Whack on the Side of the Head – How You Can Be More Creative. The book’s author, Roger von Oech (who received his Ph.D. from Stanford in the history of ideas and creativity), offered…
World-Class CX Leaders | Zameer Kassam Fine Jewelry
Recently, I have been asked to highlight companies that demonstrate breakthrough customer experience (CX) innovation. So, before I launch into another series of posts, I’ll highlight a world-class CX leader named Zameer Kassam Fine Jewelry. I won’t go into great detail about Zameer Kassam since many articles and case studies offer a deeper dive. You can…
Think Efficiency and Effectiveness | Team Member and Customer Experience Value
This is the third post in a series titled “Team Member and Customer Experience Value.” Writing for the online magazine Simplicable, technologist John Spacey defines value creation as “any process that creates outputs that are more valuable than its inputs. This is the basis of efficiency and productivity.” In my recently released book Stronger Through Adversity,…
Faster into the Future | How to Deliver Memorable Experiences in a Pandemic and Post-Pandemic World
Racecar driver Mario Andretti once said that “if everything seems under control you are not going fast enough.” His words are appropriate for automobile racing and apply to customer experience delivery as well. Tidio recently conducted a study of more than 1,000 online shoppers and confirmed a trend regarding the importance of delivery speed. Specifically,…
Emotion Drives Memory | How to Deliver Memorable Experiences in a Pandemic and Post-Pandemic World
“Our memory is enhanced by the emotion attending the event. The more intense the feelings, the more accessible the memory.” Those words from Professor Robert Dykstra have profound relevance given the intensity of emotions experienced from early 2020 to the present day. A summary article on emotions and memory written for Psychology World notes: “Emotionally…
Stronger Through Adversity | Speak Truthfully
Thank you for joining me for this series titled Stronger Through Adversity. The book by the same name is based on conversations I’ve had with more than 140 global leaders as they navigate through COVID-19. In Stronger Through Adversity, I suggest that “Before the pandemic, it was not unusual for leaders to emphasize the positives and downplay…
Stronger Through Adversity | Seek Carefully
Thank you for joining me for this series titled Stronger Through Adversity. The book by the same name is based on conversations I’ve had with more than 140 global leaders as they navigate through COVID-19. John Gerzema, the CEO of Harris Insights and Analytics, once observed, “Transparency, honesty, kindness, good stewardship, even humor, work in businesses…
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