Why Retail Customer Service is So Blah

I’ve seen a lot of articles lately about how retail customer service needs to step up its game to compete with online retailers. One of my friends – someone who excels at building teams who deliver outstanding customer interactions – replied to one, “Why do we experience so little good customer service, let alone great …

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Off the Shelf: Moonwalking with Einstein

Are you a fan of Benedict Cumberbatch’s Sherlock? In several episodes, he mentions in passing his Memory Palace. In each episode, we see him scrolling through a virtual screen of memories, reorganizing them, putting them together in different ways until the solution finally comes to him, seemingly out of nowhere. I thought the “Memory Palace” …

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