Synopses & Reviews
Discover the secrets of world-class leadership! When it comes to refined service and exquisite hospitality, one name stands high above the rest: The Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company. With ceaseless attention to every luxurious detail, the company has set the bar for creating memorable customer experiences in world-class settings. Now, for the first time, the leadership secrets behind the company's extraordinary success are revealed.
The New Gold Standard takes you on an exclusive tour behind the scenes of The Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company. Granted unprecedented access to the company's executives, staff, and its award-winning Leadership Center training facilities, bestselling author Joseph Michelli explored every level of leadership within the organization. He emerged with the key principles leaders at any company can use to provide a customer experience unlike any other, such as:
- Understanding the ever-evolving needs of customers
- Empowering employees by treating them with the utmost respect
- Anticipating customers' unexpressed needs and concerns
- Developing and conducting an unsurpassed training regimen
Sharing engaging stories from the company's employees--from the corporate office and hotels around the globe--Michelli describes the innovative methods the company uses to create peerless guest experiences and explains how it constantly hones and improves them.
The New Gold Standard weaves practical how-to advice, proven leadership tools, and the wisdom of experts to help you create and embed superior customer-service principles, processes, and practices in your own organization.
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From the author of the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and BusinessWeek Bestseller, The Starbucks ExperienceLeadership lessons from the company that turned customer service into an art form
The Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company. The name says it all. When it comes to quality, style, and unsurpassed service, this international company has set the gold standard for delivering the highest level of customer experience-which companies in all industries strive to meet. Now, for the first time, this world-class luxury hotel group has given bestselling author Joseph Michelli unprecedented access to their executives, staff, and award-winning Leadership Center training facilities. You'll discover the five key principles behind The Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company's unparalleled success and customer service innovations for which they are famous. For executives and managers at all levels, this book is pure gold.
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Set the “Gold Standard” for your industry.
- Define and Refine
- Empower Through Trust
- It's Not About You
- Deliver 'Wow!'
- Leave a Lasting Footprint
“Required reading for anyone who wants to learn how to create passionate employees and customers!” --Ken Blanchard, co-author of The One Minute Manager® and The One Minute Entrepreneur™
“The Ritz Carlton is the best hotel chain in the world because of the unique experience it offers. This book shows you how to install the same customer-focused attitude toward service that makes a world leader." --Brian Tracy, author of The Way to Wealth
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Bar and restaurant expert and host of Bar Rescue Jon Taffer offers a no-nonsense strategy for making your business successful by creating the right emotional reactions in your customers.
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If theres anyone who can prevent a bar or restaurant from going belly up, its Jon Taffer. Widely considered the greatest authority in the food and beverage, hotel, and hospitality industries, he runs the biggest trade show in the business and has turned around nearly 1,000 bars and at least that many restaurants.
As host and co-producer of Spike TVs Bar Rescue, a documentary-style series, Taffer gives struggling bars one last chance to succeed with a mixture of business acumen and tough love. Now hes offering his no-nonsense strategy for eliciting just the right emotional reactions in customers to everyone.
Raise the Bar distills the secrets to running a successful enterprise with Reaction Management, a strategy and philosophy Taffer developed and uses in his business and on Bar Rescue. It works whether youre running a storefront operation or a web-based company, whether youre manufacturing widgets or providing a service.
Taffers overarching philosophy is this: All business is about creating the right reactions in your customers. Even better: You can control those reactions to a very large degree. Raise the Bar is the definitive manual on transforming a bar or restaurant with actionable, proven strategies for immediate impact.
About the Author
Joseph A. Michelli, Ph.D., is an internationally sought-after speaker and business consultant whose clients include Bridgestone Firestone, Nokia, The Hartford Insurance Group, and UCLA Health System. The author of the bestselling The Starbucks Experience, he has appeared on The Glenn Beck Show and CNBCs On the Money.
Table of Contents
Introduction: Open for Business 1 1. You Sell One Thing: Reactions 9
2. You as a Reaction Manipulator 24
3. Money Is in Reactions, Not Transactions 48
4. Employees, the Engine of Reaction Management 69
5. Four-Walls Marketing 95
6. Interior Works 129
7. Visibility Is Money 160
8. The Revenue Response 180
9. Innovation and the Risk of Wrong Reactions 208
Conclusion: Last Call 221
Appendix: Creating the Perfect Menu 225