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Customer Satisfaction: don't let a good crisis go wasted
Customer satisfaction is important, there is no much debate on this in modern business as there is vast research that backs the aforementioned statement with data. Yet, despite the parade of evidence that depicts the obvious, many struggle with why and most importantly, what are the actionable steps one should take to reach high customer satisfaction levels. No customer wants to leave, ever! We should always start with why.
History Funnel: Pandemics Repeat Themselves as Farces
The current coronavirus pandemic, buzzwords and phrases like flattening the curve and death rates per country’ or per million, debates over the availability of medical devices, the likely impact on the national and global economy dominate the news headlines. We’ve probably seen the word ‘unprecedented’ used more in the past two months than it has in the past decade. But is this health crisis really unprecedented? And, if history is indeed a playbook for the future, what comes next?
History Funnel: Does Richer mean Happier?
The notion of a modest life that fulfills both heart and spirit rather than personal wealth and ambition is perceived as a relatively new one. But this is something that was tapped many centuries ago in ancient China, India, and Greece. Is there a definitive answer to the polarizing question? Solon and Croesus debate over happiness Croesus was a great king in 560 BC who ruled the land of Lydia, which is the northwest coast of today’s Turkey.
History Funnel: Who is the CEO in your Family?
Some might think Mother’s Day is an odd excuse to talk about leadership. After all, mothers are perceived as the embodiment of care, emotional intelligence, and unconditional love, aren’t they? So, How does that fits into the model of modern leadership? Leadership Stereotype Care, emotional intelligence and unconditional love don’t match with the broadly established notion of a leader: a fearless and aggressive Alpha Male who knows all the answers and what needs to be done in any given situation.
History Funnel: Troy, The Epic Battle Of A Boss Versus A True Leader.
Agamemnon and Odysseus were the leading characters of Homer’s epic poems and they were both kings. But that’s where their similarities stop. What can we learn from their leadership during Trojan War in a battle of styles that echoes through the ages? Fear versus Nobility Agamemnon was the King of Mycenae who called for the Trojan expedition (13th century BC) on the pretext of beautiful Helen being stolen from his brother Menelaus, King of Sparta.
History Funnel: Sparta, The Secret Behind The Shield
History Funnel is a collection of stories from Ancient Greece and the lessons they can teach us about ethical and inspiring leadership in the modern business world. This is Sparta: the Secret Behind the Shield Although Spartans’ determination to win or die in battle is legendary, little do we know about the lifelong system that ensured their team effort was a flawless killing machine. And even so, was this extensive team-building system the only secret ingredient in their recipe for success?
History Funnel: Was Socrates the First Modern Leader?
Everybody knows the name Socrates. For most of us, it’s synonymous to philosophy itself. But what was it that made him so wonderfully distinctive that he’s remembered and revered thousands of years after his death? And what valuable lessons do his teaching method hold for modern leadership?
History Funnel: How Athenian Democracy Made People Stretch Beyond Their Comfort Zones
Athenian Democracy was an unprecedented social experiment that prevailed over time. But how come this system go so far? And was Athenian Democracy the epitome of empowering leadership? Laying the Ground for People Power We all know that democracy was born in Athens. Athenians were the civilized, the philosophers, the democrats, the dreamers that built the Parthenon.
History Funnel: Is Succession the Weakness of Empires?
Even in Hollywood movies, the narrative is crystal clear. Alexander the Great was a charismatic, noble and the person who conquered pretty much the whole world back then. It goes without saying as he is the one called “the Great.” His father Philip II is at best described as just a barbaric warlord who practically spent his whole life drunk and spreading terror throughout ancient Greece.
History Funnel: Leadership Is Not For Rolling Stones
Once upon a time there was an Athenian named Alcibiades. Alcibiades was in favor of the newly implemented system of democracy although he was a descendant of an aristocratic family…so he was a friend of the common people and thus we already like him. He was a student of Socrates, which pretty much means he went to both Harvard and Yale at the same time. He was a winner at the Olympic Games. By winner back then they meant first place only. Period.
How You Can Monitor How Your Team Works
If you run a business, you’ll understand how important it is to ensure that your team is running smoothly in order to be achieving the best results. It doesn’t matter if you run a small business or if you are the CEO of a global company. Making sure that you are achieving the goals that you have set for your team is very important in keeping your business running as best as it can. One of the ways that you can ensure that your company is running smoothly is by monitoring how your team works.
History Funnel: Odyssey Or How To Buy Your Ticket For The Titanic
In one of many civil wars between Greeks, the two main tribes, Achaeans and Trojans stood against each other. The prize was not beautiful Helen, as the bedtime story narrates, instead it was the control of trade for the Aegean Sea. I’m sure you are not so romantic not to realize that no matter how furious a betrayed husband can be, 10000 Greeks did not come together to bring back an unfaithful wife.
Insurance Every Family Needs
The thought of insurance can be overwhelming. You might not know where to start, or what you need. As a result, it often ends up getting put on the backburner. Having the right types of insurance coverage, however, is essential for protecting your financial future, and the financial future of your family. Here are some of the types of insurance coverage that every family needs to have. Life insurance is an essential insurance coverage that you should have, especially if you have a family.
Writing For Money - How you can Sell All You Write
If you are writing for your money, you need to sell all you write. Amazingly more than enough, it is possible to certainly do this, if you approach it the right way. It is less complicated than you imagine: you simply have to convert your focus. What do I actually mean by that? I am talking about that rather than considering what you long for; you have to think about exactly what your customers want.
3 Ways Smart Business Owners Nurture Talent
As a business owner, you should always be on the lookout for ways to nurture talent in your employees. Of course, you want all of your employees to grow in some way, but you particularly want to make sure that the most talented and naturally gifted members of your team are able to reach their full potential. These real cream-of-the-crop workers are the ones that will make the best targets for future leadership positions in your company.
How to Manage Your Corporate Identity?
Most of the staff is unable to keep regular updates about the templates of corporate identity. Most of the staff will try to make a newer document from an old file present on their desktop which will turn out to have some incorrect and old assets. Legal information will also be used in that newer file drawn out from the older one. Thus, making all these things really complex.
Essential tools for improving workforce communications
You always have to be on top of data flow in your workplace, and sometimes a massive influx of data can trigger harmful effects rather than beneficial ones. Thankfully there are a lot of allies that we have in order to better control the data flow between companies and employees. Such a helping hand is offered by a Workforce Communications Platform because it has the power to improve communications and engagement among others.
What kind of insurance do you need for your business?
Insurance is a must for every business. There are many risks for every business, and if something happens to yours, you will be the one who will have to pay for everything unless there is an insurance. However, things are not that simple, there are many types of insurance and you should be informed about all of them. This is one of the most important types of insurance. You must have it whether you own the space or lease it.
Fallacy of Cashless Britain: A preconceived notion that disregards the Shadow economy
Britain is on its way to be cashless. An emerging British phenomenon, much-hyped since the Government introduced uncompromising security protected £5 notes and £1 coins. A recent report published in the Telegraph suggests that Britain is verging to be cashless and ranks in terms of usage as the third country behind Canada and Sweden. Consistent with this, a report by Imperial College corroborates that Britain is leading to be cashless or at least nearly cashless.
The CEO’s Most Important Job Is Also The Least Desirable
Think about the work you do as the CEO. What is the best part of your work? Chances are, you enjoy the challenge and responsibility and reward of building exciting, long-term strategies that will see your company well into the future. Perhaps you love the thrill of inspiring and leading your team to growth and success, creating happy stakeholders. All of these are essential jobs of the CEO, and of course there’s nothing wrong with anticipating these exciting responsibilities.
4 Tax Tips for Rookie Entrepreneurs
As an entrepreneur, you’re confronted with the same two certainties in life that everyone else faces: death and taxes. Your priest can help you with the former. We’ll take a crack at the latter. 4 Tax Tips to Keep in Mind Anyone who receives a W-2 from a company is considered an employee of that company and enjoys some of the tax benefits that come with it – namely that the employer pays half of the FICA taxes.
How to Find Good Investors for the Small Business
In recent times, the way you go searching for investors has evolved. These days, with limitless social networking opportunities and minimal business boundaries of distance, interaction, and regulations, this world has become a global place. You have several possibilities handed to you at the same time, on a smaller plate. Making use of these positives, let’s examine precisely where we can easily find future investors and recommendations on choosing the best ones.
Six Ways to Effectively Lead Millennials
Not a day goes by that I’m not asked the question, “How can we lead these millennials?” I am to the point now that I generally just laugh at first and then quickly answer, “You lead them like you lead others.” That usually gets me a blank stare and then some form of a follow-up question that usually starts with, “But…” Sure, there is much chatter. And there are a lot of social media posts about this generation.
How To Get A Home Loan With Negative Credit?
It’s almost impossible to get a home loan with Bad Credit Rating. But if you manage your finances and shop around, you may get lucky. Following, we are giving you some quick tips that will land you a mortgage despite having negative credit rating on your financial score. Get a copy of your credit if you were rejected in the first place. This is your chance to improve on your past behavior, so make it count. Make sure you know every negative record.
5 Business Tips Every Investor Should Use In 2018
Equity investors in businesses buy a piece of the business and get a partial ownership in the business. Equity investors invest in small businesses and provide capital to these businesses almost always in the form of cash. In exchange for their investments, these business investors get a small percentage of the profits or losses that the company makes.
What are the 5 factors affecting the on-demand food delivery service
Food delivery market is on the rise and it’s not a new business sector. Parcel food orders have been part of the restaurant since time immemorial, but this sudden rise in the no. of startups focused on on-demand food delivery indicates that a big force has come into play. And that indication is towards internet coupled smartphones creating an environment of 24/7 connectivity. The consumers have gotten very used to the concept to on demand, thanks to the 24/7 online concept.
6 Things To Consider Before Opening A Cafe
If there are two things that get you really fired up, it’s great food and great people. Where they come together in perfect union is in your café, the one you’ve been dreaming of opening up. It’s where you get to design the best experience a customer has ever had, and you get to do it day after day. More than serving what is sure to be the best food and coffee in town, it’s all about making people happy that gets you out of bed in the morning.
7 Practices to Lead Your Business into a Better Future
In any industry, tech or traditional, there’s one essential leadership challenge that keeps CEOs awake at night. It’s how to develop the capacity to meet the next disruption. Leaders need to be able to co-sense and co-shape the next disruption and build an eco-system of partners to actualize that opportunity. To achieve this requires leaders take a journey both personal and systemic — departing from the well-trod path of the usual solutions to a place with the most potential.
Do You Know Slow Loading Website Is Killing Your Business
The world is moving fast in the digital era, where everyone wants a solution on one click of the button. Today, from bricks and mortar to newspaper vending is online. To keep your business alive, you should have a business website. But, what if your website shows content slowly? Do you know that in the fast-moving world slow means dead? Here are the reasons why a slow loading website is killing your business. Slow loading website will irritate your potential customers.
Top Three Trends in Online Sports Betting
Online sports betting is a fiercely competitive industry. If you want evidence for this fact, just watch the number of bookmaker adverts aired before, during and after a typical Premier League soccer game. Indeed, around half of the Premier League clubs wear betting brands’ logos as their principal shirt sponsor. Outside of marketing and advertising, there is a scramble for betting companies to offer something different to grab new customers or to encourage their current customers to bet on sports.
The Benefits of Using an EPOS System
With technology constantly evolving, businesses are taking advantage of new equipment to help speed up productivity and save the business money. Here are a few benefits of using an EPOS system. It is important to understand what an EPOS system is and how they have become a vital necessity in how things are sold. An EPOS (electronic point of sale) system is frequently used when we pay for a service or product.
5 Things You Should Know Before Buying Life Insurance
Purchasing life insurance for the first time is no simple task. A lot of thoughts may be racing in your mind. What is the best policy? How do I get a reliable company? How much premium is reasonable? Well, these are some of the questions that life insurance buyers, especially first-time purchasers, stress about when they decide to take that big step. Although you may not have enough information about life insurance policies, it is prudent to know a couple of basic things before making a further step.
Why is adopting the digital media important for salon industry?
In 2016, beauty industry shed more than 21,000 salons, which is almost 9 percent of the total no. of salons in 2016. It is an alarming stat. The reasons listed are various for this sharp reduction, for instance, escalating overheads, salon walkouts, salon suite/loft growth, bored customers and the standard of work. In other words, salons failed to lure customers with anything new or innovative. Moreover, salons also saw reduced profit margins and many were even operating at a loss.
4 Ways Smartphones and Tablets Can Benefit Your Business
Innovative technology continues to bombard small businesses. With more than 80 percent of small business owners using some type of mobile device for business purposes each day and 17.3 percent using them more than 10 times each day, integrating this technology into your business is likely way past due. Even if you have already begun using this tech for business purposes, there is a good chance you are failing to use it to its full potential.
Android Instant Apps: Do You Know What’s That?
If you don’t know yet, now it’s the high time you know what is Android instant apps. Let me put this in a very straight and simplistic manner; Android instant apps are a newer version of native Android apps. These are the only apps which can run without installing it on your device. These are the miniature version of the Android app without having a need to be stored on your device. Instant apps also have a different version which can be installed on the device only at the choice of the user.
China Hikes Defence Budget To $175 billion, Three Times That Of India
To modernize its armed forces, China plans to boost its military spending by 8.1 percent in 2018 (amounting to a whopping $175 billion), up from last year’s 7%. Beijing’s defense budget now stands at more than three times that of India’s. China’s President Xi has also pledged to modernize the army, promising to unveil a “world-class” armed forces by 2035. China is the world’s second-largest defense spender after the United States.
World's Most Luxurious Private Islands To Visit: Best-Kept Travel Secrets
From Calala Island in Nicaragua to Satellite Island in Tasmania, Australia, these are the world’s best and most luxurious private islands to visit. Best-Kept Travel Secrets! Destination to be discovered. The World’s Most Luxurious Private Islands To Visit 1) Satellite Island, Tasmania, Australia From $1050 a night for two (minimum two nights). In southern Tasmania – and the last stop before Antarctica – is where you’ll find Satellite Island.
These Are The 20 Most Corrupt Countries In Europe In 2017
Countries like Afghanistan, Syria, North Korea, Somalia, and Yemen dominate the most corrupt end of the scale – but CEOWORLD magazine has produced a list of low-scoring European countries, which are usually assumed to have higher standards. The annual Corruption Percept Index analyses 180 countries, and they are given a score out of 100, with low-scoring nations the most corrupt. The most corrupt European countries were found to be Russia and Ukraine, with a score of 29 and 30, respectively.
10 most and least corrupt countries in the world in 2017 corruption perceptions index
Despite attempts to combat corruption around the world, more than two-thirds of the world’s nations have high levels of corruption, according to the global watchdog Transparency International (TI). New Zealand and Denmark scored the highest scores with 89 and 84 out of 100, respectively. Finland, Norway, and Switzerland come in joint third, and Singapore and Sweden are tied in the fourth position. Countries are then scored on a scale of zero, for highly corrupt, to 100, for very clean.
Secret Tips To Upgrade Your Business With Android app
The number of mobile phone users globally for the current year stands at 5.135 billion – two-thirds of the world’s 7.6 billion inhabitants. So, a huge amount of population is on a mobile device, and these are not mere phone users, they can be your customers you can get right through a mobile app. So, what are you thinking? Yes, of course, app development is a hefty investment but an investment that can yield you a considerable amount of return. Every business is on mobile, is yours too?
4 Benefits of Supply Chain Management
For a small business to get their product on the market and readily available to their customers, many stages of production are required. In order to make money on their products, a company has to cut costs on their production and transport methods. Nearly every stage of production has costs attached to it, which means that a small business has to reevaluate everything they are doing to efficiently produce their goods.
Little Known Facts About Common causes and prevention of PCB Shortages - And Why They Matter
In PCB designing, it is crucial to understand just how PCB shorts occur, to minimize the occurrences. There are of course several causes of PCB shortages. Contamination comes in many different forms, none of which is good for your PCB. Cleaning may leave residues and films on the surface of your PCB. The dirt gets in between laminates or in between the layers of copper inside the PCB. This eventually causes the degradation and residual damage of the board.
Is Russia Turning Its Strategic Bomber Into A Supersonic Passenger Jet?
Numerous media report suggests that Russia is planning to turn its long-range strategic bomber Tupolev-160 (NATO codename Blackjack) into a new supersonic passenger jet. Russia’s Concorde! The Tupolev Tu-160 is a Mach 2+ heavy bomber with a range of about 12,300 km. It is designed to strike targets by launching long-range nuclear and conventional weapon tipped Kh-55 cruise missile. About sixteen are currently in service – 11 regular Tu-160s and five upgraded Tu-160s.
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