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A line in the sand

This post is the fifth in a series that will identify 10 different obstacles that have emerged from my analysis of customer satisfaction data. Maybe you will have encountered one or more of these obstacles in your own business? The fifth obstacle is adversarialism. Adversarialism is an attitude that conveys

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Compete FOR customers, not AGAINST them

Have you ever sensed an adversarial, “us vs. them” mentality from employees of service organizations? Perhaps you were on the receiving end of what you would describe as rude or abusive behavior? Or perhaps it was more subtle—like dismissive body language or an exasperated sigh? Maybe it did not even

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Excuse me. That’s not where the cart goes!

The other day I walked by a supermarket employee who was hanging out near the front entrance of the store smoking a cigarette. I noticed him because it always confounds me when employers permit their employees to smoke someplace where non-smoking customers have to pass through their second-hand smoke in

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