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Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us by Daniel H. Pink

Forget everything you thought you knew about how to motivate people--at work, at school, at home. It's wrong. As Daniel H. Pink explains in his new book, the secret to high performance and satisfaction in today's world is the deeply human need to direct our own lives, to learn and create new things, and to do better by ourselves and our world.

Drawing on four decades of scientific research on human motivation, Pink exposes the mismatch between what science knows and what business does--and how that affects every aspect of our lives. He demonstrates that while the old-fashioned carrot-and-stick approach worked successfully in the 20th century, it's precisely the wrong way to motivate people for today's challenges.

[More About This Book] Feb-07-2010

Serving Internal and External Customers by Anne Swartzlander

This unique book is a customer service training reference/workbook, with a customer-centered orientation model. Its integrated approach emphasizes a business organization's service philosophy and strategy, its systems, and the people-management policies that allow the business to succeed in the 21st century. With its comprehensive coverage of customer service communication best practices, Customer Service provides innovative concepts and techniques appropriate for both experienced and entry-level customer service providers. This interesting and informative book is necessary reading for vice-presidents, directors, managers, and supervisors in Consumer Affairs; customer service managers, directors and managers of Call Centers, managers and supervisors in Customer Relations; Customer Support managers; and Customer Service trainers.

[More About This Book] Jan-31-2010

Customer Service: Career Success Through Customer Loyalty by Paul R. Timm

Customer Service: Career Success through Customer Loyalty provides a systematic process for building service skills that all business people need. Presented in a friendly, conversational manner, the text is filled with examples that demonstrate the link between service skills and career achievement. This edition is reorganized so it is easy to see how key concepts fit together. New information is included on internal customers, emerging technologies, and stress-reducing techniques. Throughout the text, there is an emphasis on transforming good service intentions into a workable plan that exceeds customer expectations and creates loyalty and success.

[More About This Book] Jan-24-2010

The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right by Atul Gawande

We live in a world of great and increasing complexity, where even the most expert professionals struggle to master the tasks they face. Longer training, ever more advanced technologies -- neither seems to prevent grievous errors. But in a hopeful turn, acclaimed surgeon and writer Atul Gawande finds a remedy in the humblest and simplest of techniques: the checklist. First introduced decades ago by the U.S. Air Force, checklists have enabled pilots to fly aircraft of mind-boggling sophistication. Even in the immensely complex world of surgery, a simple ninety-second variant has cut the rate of fatalities by more than a third.

In riveting stories, Gawande takes us from Austria, where an emergency checklist saved a drowning victim who had spent half an hour underwater, to Michigan, where a cleanliness checklist in intensive care units virtually eliminated a type of deadly hospital infection. He explains how checklists actually work to prompt striking and immediate improvements. And he follows the checklist revolution into fields well beyond medicine, from disaster response to investment banking, skyscraper construction, and businesses of all kinds.

[More About This Book] Jan-17-2010

Domino: How Customer Experience Can Tip Everything in Your Business toward Better Financial Performance by Linda Ireland

Companies that use a target customer experience as their front domino reap the biggest rewards in profitability, growth and sustainability. For the first time, a book about customer experience belongs in the management and finance sections of every bookstore. This how-to volume, rich with practical exercises, provides a tested blueprint for defining the target customer experience and translating it into an actionable strategy that will lead to tangible financial reward.

[More About This Book] Jan-10-2010

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