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Is the Customer Really Always Right? A Hotel Company Invests in its Employees First

Posted by Dawn Marie Bailey What if you turned the service philosophy “the customer is always right” on its head and considered your employees first? What would happen to your customer service?...

From Take Work to Make Work

Posted by Harry Hertz , the Baldrige Cheermudgeon For me, it started with e-mail on my laptop computer, progressed to cell phones, and then to text messages. When I accepted my first managerial...

Innovative Leadership Behaviors, Customized for You

Posted by Dawn Marie Bailey How can you develop as an innovative leader? A recent Harvard Business Review article by Katherine Graham-Leviss looked at “The 5 Skills that Innovative Leaders Have in...
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highly recommend

Marguerite Morgan, Hospital Administrator, Florida State Hospital
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The opportunities for improvement from this report were
truly amazing. ...As the CEO, I have seen a tremendous
amount of resurgent energy in our employees...
I highly recommend the new Baldrige
Collaborative [Assessment].

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