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Nice systems. How’s your service?

Yesterday, while vacationing in Breckenridge, CO over Labor Day Weekend, I bought two 100-chip sets of 11.5G poker chips at Peak-A-Boo Toys on Main Street. When we returned home last night and opened both sets, we discovered that one of the sets contained only 99 chips and was missing a

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Ignoring customers is bad for business

Earlier this month my daughter, Kennedy, brought her Bearpaw boot to me and pointed out that one of the buttons (“toggles”) used to secure the elastic laces had cracked. I took a couple of photos, located Bearpaw’s Twitter account, and posted the following tweet on April 5, 2017: @bearpawshoes How do

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Anticipatory customer service

Last week, three days before Christmas, I returned home to Denver from Manchester, NH after completing my final event of the year. For everyone who has ventured into an airport on December 22, you’re all too familiar with the long lines, delays, and various other inconveniences and setbacks that accompany

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Does your website promise more than you deliver?

Over spring break last month, like many Colorado families, we headed to Breckenridge for the week to ski and board. I had booked a 3-bedroom condominium through VRBO (Vacation Rental by Owner) at a lodge at the base of Peak 8. I booked this unit in particular because of the

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More Proof That Perception Matters

I recently developed a learning activity for a client who wanted his team of 60 commercial property managers to recognize the influence that biases, preconceived notions, and assumptions had on the quality of their tenant interactions. My client was motivated by the recurring conflict that arose whenever property managers had

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“I’m sorry. They’re all in meetings.”

Last week, I presented during a conference that was held at a full-service hotel in Denver. My contact at the event mentioned that, earlier that morning, he discovered the iron in his room was not working properly. He called downstairs to request a replacement iron and was told one would

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Are You a Genius or Smart?

The following is a guest post by Chip Bell. Chip’s latest book (with Marshall Goldsmith) is Manager as Mentors: Building Partnerships for Learning. There is a really big difference between genius and smart.  I traded in my flip phone and Blackberry for a brand spanking new iPhone at my neighborhood

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Your customer’s problem is your problem

Earlier this year, after my lawn had been aerated and fertilized, I noticed yellow grass forming along the eastern perimeter of my front yard. My initial thought was that my lawn service had inadvertently over-sprayed grass killer while treating the rock landscaping that borders the lawn. So I called and

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