January

2004

Three years ago, Saks Fifth Avenue faced a serious challenge in attracting and welcoming new customers. The difficulty would be to manage the “soft side” of the business -- what customers and employees felt. Here’s how Saks gets and keeps new customers -- that is, how it remains exclusive without excluding anyone.
The giant retailer keeps prices low -- but its stock value high -- by engaging employees, who in turn engage customers
If your company has removed all employee-related roadblocks to creating customer engagement and has identified the right performance outcomes, you’re ready for the next step: to align teams and practices to create customer engagement.
Dr. Bruce Avolio, an expert on leadership development, shares his insights on why great leaders are self-aware -- and also willing to sacrifice their selfish interests.
In this month’s excerpt from Animals Inc: A Business Parable for the 21st Century, Mo discovers that there are books on every conceivable aspect of running a business -- and few of them make any sense. His 10 management lessons are confusing and contradictory. What’s an executive pig to do?

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