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Tag Archives: customer
Cloud cuckoo-land
“What matters to me as a customer is getting everything for free. I’d appreciate it if all organisations could just go ahead and arrange that please. No, I didn’t think so.” This comment left on a recent post shows the typical command … Continue reading
Posted in clarity of purpose, command and control, customer, Demand, systems thinking, vanguard method
Tagged customer, Demand, study, what matters
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What’s the purpose of a-SHUT UP AND TAKE MY MONEY!
I went into PC World last week to help make them into a business. I was going to do this by making myself into a customer of theirs. Until that happens, PC World is not a business, it is just … Continue reading
Posted in command and control, customer, systems thinking
Tagged customer, customer satisfaction, drucker, pc world
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What colour is my work?
Here are coloured beads in 2 jars. A man (a slightly famous games designer in his 60s) every day takes a bead from the right jar and pops it into the jar on the left. Each bead represents a day. … Continue reading
Posted in customer, me doing it, purpose, systems thinking
Tagged customer, support service, value
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Empty chairs and Teddy Bears
Who’s the most important person in your meetings? In Amazon, it’s an empty chair. When Amazon was starting out Jeff Bezos , the founder, made sure that at every meeting there was an empty chair brought to the boardroom table … Continue reading
Zombie Deming takes issue with a poster
Oh dear! Somebody should have warned him! So, what would cause a perfectly sane manager to stick “WORK HARDER” posters up and not expect to be lynched? Command and control thinking as at it’s heart control through commands. The purpose … Continue reading
Posted in customer, deming, systemz comix, Uncategorized
Tagged customer, deming, systemz comix
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The Victoria Pendleton post
I am not what I think I am. I am not what you think I am. I am what I think you think I am. Got that? It’s called “the looking glass self” theory. Briefly, people construct their identity based on … Continue reading
Posted in command and control, customer, psychology, systems thinking
Tagged customer, script, TA
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9 questions about your cake and you
Organisations are layer cakes. There is a long way between the cherries on the top and the damp base at the bottom. Answer these 9 questions to align yourself in the cake and find out what that means for you … Continue reading
Posted in command and control, customer, deming, purpose, systems thinking, Uncategorized
Tagged customer, layer
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Magical thinking
“New Customer Service Standards:- New Customer Service Standards have been launched. Cards, leaflets and posters will now be appearing round the building to reinforce this message to all staff.” Appeared today. Will take effect when magical pixie dust has been … Continue reading
3 reasons why job descriptions are phooey
Silly. Un-needed. Harmful at times. They not worth the paper they are written on. The paper they are written on Read on for why!
Posted in all wrong, clarity of purpose, customer, Uncategorized
Tagged customer, get knowledge, systems thinking, thinking not tools
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