The Robots are Here and There is Fear
I thought I would conjure up the spirit of the US patriot Paul Revere who (during my school years) was credited as shouting, “The British are coming! The British are coming!” With solid scholarship, it appears Paul Revere likely never shouted those words at all. In fact, the words he did say – apparently something more…
Customer Experience Lessons from Television Advertising’s Biggest Day In America
First, notice the title of this blog! You will see that I didn’t mention the name by which people typically refer to the season-ending major sporting event where commercials play a central role. Therein is my first lesson: Trademarks matter. Virtually every phrase used to describe that event has been trademarked and the equity created around it…
Supercharge Your Business by Letting Go
During the last several months, The Michelli Experience added a new division – Business Supercharged (consulting/coaching services for an exclusive group of entrepreneurs and mid-sized business leaders). Previously, I worked almost entirely with senior leaders in Fortune 500 companies. As I embarked on this new set of products, I spoke with many small and mid-sized…
Want a Free Franchise? A Hypothetical with Real-World Implications
Let’s pretend I gave you a company. Awful nice of me right? Well, maybe not! The company is a chain of video stores. Remember those? If you are old enough to recall the video rental phenomena, the landscape for that industry was dominated by Blockbuster and Hollywood Video, but there were a panoply of local…
Lead People Not Technology: Interacting to Succeed
Recently an interviewer asked me a frustrating question, “Why are we constantly watching leaders on television who are boastful and self-serving?” My answer, “Because the leaders we see on television in the United States are predominantly politicians. Those politicians, be they Republican or Democrat, often place their political careers above the broader issues of the…
Leading with the GOOD: A must have for customer experience success
I am convinced that if you want to offer consistently outstanding customer experiences, you will need to align your organization around a fundamental belief. Namely, that “people are intrinsically good.” Philosophical and Practical Okay, this blog may seem a bit esoteric and in the purview of philosophers, not business leaders. We all know that philosophers,…
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