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Managing Knock Your Socks Off Service, Second Edition Revisions by Chip R. Bell and Dave Zielinski
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Managing Knock Your Socks Off Service, Second Edition Revisions by Chip R. Bell and Dave Zielinski

by Chip R. Bell, Ron Zemke
May 2007
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
231 pages
5h 8m
English
AMACOM
Content preview from Managing Knock Your Socks Off Service, Second Edition Revisions by Chip R. Bell and Dave Zielinski
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“Emotionalizing”
the Yardstick:
Why Customer
Satisfaction
Isn’t Enough
Customers perceive service in their own unique,
idiosyncratic, emotional, irrational and totally human
terms. Perception is all there is.
—Tom Peters
Management Consultant
For as long as we can remember the promised land of service-
focused organizations—the accomplishment that, once
achieved, suggested they’d arrived among the ranks of cus-
tomer service exemplars—has been represented by two
sought-after words: customer satisfaction.
When customers report being “very satisfied” or “satis-
fied” on our surveys, we take it as a sign of their continued
loyalty, believing they’ll continue to spend their dollars with
us and recommend us to others. Yet the truth is that while sat-
isfying ...
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