Neat little factoid from the ever-excellent newsletter of ecustomerserviceworld.
February 2025 update
People have been facilitated before: boredom, stillness, recovering attention and the undercurrents of life
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The value of not always saying something helpful
Beyond writing
Writing stuff down can easily remove us from practical reality and suppress our intuition
Inauthentic marketing: case study
An example of inauthentic direct mail, from Lincoln Financial Group. The elements that eat away at the credibility of the sender and the effect on this reader.
The volatile chemistry of trust
Interesting research from Stanford suggests that exciting brands get more trusted after making mistakes and putting them right whilst more “sincere” brands start with more trust but lose it more easily. Perhaps the sensible interpretation is that second-guessing customers can be a waste of time!
The individual transcends the bland…
BA stewardess Claire breaks the corporate ice and creates real engagment. Hats off to BA is their culture supports this sort of thing.
Customer-centricity: is it the answer?
Michael Hammer’s new book, The Agenda, is about the rise of customer power. But is customer-centricity really such a good model for business and society?
Authenticity: you can’t fake it
Thanks (again) to John Porcaro for linking me to the Customer Evangelists’ blog where I found this: OLD SCHOOL: Ad agency pays teen bloggers to
In praise of um… er….. deeper meaning
Once again, it turns out that what we do naturally has more value than we realise; whereas clever contrivances intended to “improve” our effectiveness often just destroy significance… and make us less well understood! A good lesson for all those presentation trainers and “image consultants” out there!
Follies of ranking
John Porcaro blogsmore evidence of the dangers of running businesses by crude interpretations of numbers… how superficial metrics can cover a rich tapestry of human
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An update on unhurried at work…
Three years ago I first blogged about the idea of Unhurried. It emerged from a series of conversations with my friend Antony Quinn. We share an interest in improv theatre
28 February 2017
The Harvard Business Revue
Having a bit of affectionate fun at the expense of management literature
21 March 2023
Tolstoy on managment…
Andrew Sullivan quotes Tolstoy: It seems to every administrator that it is only by his efforts that the whole population under his rule is kept going, and in this consciousness
11 November 2006
links for 2010-06-26
The myth of the opinionless man* « BuzzMachine My Competitive Advantage: I Hire Artists – ChrisAshworth.org "Show me a good artist and I will show you a highly educated, highly
26 June 2010
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