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Six social-media skills every leader needs

Organizational social-media literacy is fast becoming a source of competitive advantage. Learn, through the lens of executives at General Electric, how you and your leaders can keep up. FEBRUARY 2013 • Roland Deiser and Sylvain Newton Few domains in business and society have been untouched by the emerging social-media revolution—one...
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The interpersonal skills of employees ultimately make or break the customer experience.

Customer Defection Market leaders have recalibrated customer expectations about the character of one-to-one interactions with employees. How likely are customers to punish a company for failing to meet those expectations?    • Fifty percent of all U.S. respondents were “somewhat” to “very” likely to defect to a competitor after a single bad experience with a brand....
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