by Sam Klaidman | Apr 28, 2014 | Customer Loyalty
In many companies, the field service engineer has the most ongoing influence over her customers. She is their trusted adviser, is expected to make all problems disappear quickly, and is expected to shield the customer from home office mistakes. In the overall scheme...
by Sam Klaidman | Apr 7, 2014 | Growth
Leaders of a company, division, department, or project have to accomplish many things right to achieve their current success. They also had to do many things correctly many times. All these experiences become habits that we tend to fall back on when making decisions....
by Sam Klaidman | Mar 31, 2014 | Growth
This post describes what happens when someone is not satisfied with Consistent Experiences. Imagine driving to work on Monday on the same route you have driven for five years. You see a traffic light change from green to yellow, and for a split second, you think about...
by Sam Klaidman | Mar 24, 2014 | Customer Loyalty
The need for an empowered employee Assume that the hard drive on your computer crashed. Either a) you had continuously backed up your files to the cloud, or b) you have never backed up your data anywhere. When you call your computer manufacturer’s technical support...
by Sam Klaidman | Mar 10, 2014 | Customer Value Creation
Have you ever been certain you knew something and found out you were wrong? That happened to me. Last week, during a discussion with the CEO and the Board Chair of a new client, I was asked, “How long are we required to support our products?” My assignment is to help...
