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Title details for Customer Mania! by Kenneth Blanchard - Available

Customer Mania!

It's Never Too Late to Build a Customer-Focused Company

by Kenneth Blanchard
Jim Ballard
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In Customer Mania!, Ken Blanchard, one of America's biggest bestselling authors and inspiring business leaders, writes of the key to customer service—creating a people-oriented, performance-driven, customer-first organization.
Customer service is the single most pressing problem for business managers and people in any service or sales operation, especially at the retail level. In fact, many experts believe that you build a business from the customer up. With coauthors Jim Ballard and Fred Finch, Blanchard explains why the customer is the right starting place from which to build a successful business. By drawing on examples from the world's largest restaurant company, Yum!—owner of KFC, Taco Bell, Pizza Hut, Long John Silver's, and A&W Restaurants—the authors explain how any company, large or small, can develop a unified, people-first, customer-oriented culture. Packed with practical insights, Customer Mania! emphasizes four critical steps:

• Set Your Sights on the Right Target. The bottom line grows from taking care of customers and creating a motivating environment for your people.
  • Treat Customers the Right Way. Determine the kind of experience you want your customers to have as they interact with every part of the company.
  • Treat Employees the Right Way. Use strategies ranging from smart hiring to training and development to managing performance and creating a recognition culture.
  • Build the Right Kind of Leadership. You can't do it all yourself, so let your people put their own brains to work and then support them all the way.

    By relying on these concepts, businesses everywhere can cultivate passionate and engaged team members who contribute to the company's overall success. From CEO to middle manager to the person facing the consumer, Customer Mania! is a vital tool for enhancing their experience — and their customer's.

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      November 1, 2004

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      • OverDrive Listen audiobook

        • ISBN: 9780743544962
        • File size: 158407 KB
        • Duration: 05:30:00

    • Languages

      • English

    • Reviews

      • AudioFile Magazine
        The principal author's experience as a leadership trainer and visionary is obvious in this audio. His ideas are overpowering in their depth and relevance to the most important challenges in today's service industries. Ken Blanchard's matter-of-fact reading underscores his comfort with these principles, no doubt fine-tuned through writing his bestselling ONE MINUTE MANAGER books and his consulting with some of the world's largest corporations. In this sequel to Raving Fans, the authors tell how any retail manager can empower low-wage troops to serve customers sincerely and creatively. The ideal retail manager is humble, receptive, collaborative, empowering, and, most of all, respectful toward every team member. This should be essential music for the ears of anyone wanting to manage in retail. T.W. 2005 Audie Award Finalist (c) AudioFile 2005, Portland, Maine
      • AudioFile Magazine
        The principal author's experience as a leadership trainer and visionary is obvious in this audio. His ideas are overpowering in their depth and relevance to the most important challenges in today's service industries. Ken Blanchard's matter-of-fact reading underscores his comfort with these principles, no doubt fine-tuned through writing his bestselling ONE MINUTE MANAGER books and his consulting with some of the world's largest corporations. In this sequel to Raving Fans, the authors tell how any retail manager can empower low-wage troops to serve customers sincerely and creatively. The ideal retail manager is humble, receptive, collaborative, empowering, and, most of all, respectful toward every team member. This should be essential music for the ears of anyone wanting to manage in retail. T.W. 2005 Audie Award Finalist (c) AudioFile 2005, Portland, Maine
      • Publisher's Weekly

        November 1, 2004
        Self-described "Chief Spiritual Officer" Blanchard strikes a familiar note of ebullient optimism in this follow up to his bestsellers The One-Minute Manager, Whale Done and Raving Fans! This time the business populist chronicles the efforts of Yum! brands to build a customer-focused corporate culture. As the corporate parent of Kentucky Fried Chicken, Pizza Hut, Taco Bell, A&W and Long John Silver, Yum! operates in an industry where a 200% annual turnover rate is normal. So the company's own 40% annual turnover rate is exceptional, and its creation of a positive employee culture is no mean feat. Thus, Yum!'s survival in the fast food business--which relies heavily on the public's contact with its front line employees--provides useful lessons for any manager whose business depends upon customer satisfaction. Unfortunately, however, Blanchard's book fails to step back and address its subject objectively. Instead, the narrative reads like a spiritual revival meeting, making it difficult to separate the practical advances from the author's hype. Has all the feel-good hoopla created higher profits? Deflected competition? Raised share prices? Failures, negativity and cynicism don't find their way into this book. They are swiftly eliminated, just like people with the wrong attitude at Yum!

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