Chapter 4Never a Customer, Always a Guest
You don’t build the product for yourself.You need to know what the people want and build it for them.
Walt Disney
In an age when consumers all across the country bemoan the state of customer service, The Walt Disney Company is repeatedly hailed as a superior service provider, perhaps the best in the world. On the day Disneyland opened, Walt himself announced the theme park’s motto: “At Disneyland, the visitors are our guests.” Since then, the bar has continually been raised to new heights in the company’s desire to delight its guests.
That visitors should be treated as guests is also a theme that emerges in nearly every movie Walt Disney made. The dwarfs welcome Snow White into their cottage; forest animals ...
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