Complaint Management Excellence: Creating Customer Loyalty through Service Recovery by Sarah Cook is a comprehensive guide that explores the importance of effectively managing customer complaints and using service recovery as a means to build customer loyalty. Cook provides valuable insights, practical strategies, and actionable techniques to help organisations handle complaints with excellence.
Hug Your Haters: How to Embrace Complaints and Keep Your Customers by Jay Baer is a compelling book that explores the power of embracing customer complaints and turning them into opportunities to enhance customer loyalty and business success. Baer provides valuable insights, real-world examples, and actionable strategies to help organisations effectively handle customer feedback and create a culture of customer-centricity.
"The Stakeholder Strategy: Profiting from Collaborative Business Relationships" by Ann Svendsen is a comprehensive guide that emphasises the importance of building collaborative relationships with stakeholders to achieve business success. Svendsen argues that in today's complex and interconnected business environment, organisations must move beyond traditional transactional interactions and adopt a more strategic, partnership-oriented approach with their stakeholders.
"Leading the Customer Experience" by Sarah Cook is a comprehensive guide for organisations aiming to deliver exceptional customer service and create long-lasting customer loyalty. Cook emphasises that in today’s highly competitive market, providing an outstanding customer experience (CX) is not just a differentiator but a necessity for businesses to thrive.
Buyology: How Everything We Believe About Why We Buy is Wrong by Martin Lindstrom is a fascinating exploration of the subconscious forces that shape our buying decisions. In this book, Lindstrom draws on extensive research and neuromarketing studies to challenge commonly held beliefs about consumer behaviour and uncover the hidden factors that truly drive our purchasing choices.
“Managing for Stakeholders: Survival, Reputation, and Success" by R. Edward Freeman, Jeffrey S. Harrison, and Andrew C. Wicks is a comprehensive examination of stakeholder theory and its application in modern business. The book argues that organisations should prioritise the interests of all stakeholders—not just shareholders—to achieve long-term success and sustainability. This approach, known as stakeholder management, involves identifying, understanding, and balancing the needs and concerns of various groups that are affected by or can affect the organisation.