Audiobooks by Joseph Michelli

Customer Magic – The Macquarie Way: How to Reimagine Customer Experience to Transform Your Business

It takes a special kind of magic for a challenger brand to achieve seemingly impossible customer-centric results. It’s that magic that makes Australian telecommunications company Macquarie Technology world leaders in award-winning customer experience. Joseph A. Michelli—the bestselling author of books about brands renowned for their stellar service and outstanding growth, such as The Ritz-Carlton, Mercedes-Benz, and Starbucks—was so impressed by Macquarie’s ability to deliver transformative customer experiences that he felt compelled to write this book. Customer Magic is a practical, easy-to-read guide that, consistent with Macquarie’s commitment to delivering customer value, shares transferrable knowledge on how to identify and solve customer pain points; craft a compelling unique value proposition; attract, select, grow, and retain customer service talent and subject matter expertise; set, measure, track, and incentivize mission-critical business goals and customer-driven growth; innovate solutions that meet your customers’ stated and unstated needs; and maintain a growth mindset and leave a legacy of success.

Joseph Michelli (Author), Joseph Michelli (Narrator)

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The Starbucks Experience: 5 Principles for Turning Ordinary Into Extraordinary

You already know the Starbucks story. Since 1992, its stock has risen a staggering 5,000 percent! The genius of Starbucks's success lies in its ability to create personalized customer experiences, stimulate business growth, generate profits, energize employees, and secure customer loyalty-all at the same time. The Starbucks Experience contains a robust blend of home-brewed ingenuity and people-driven philosophies that have made Starbucks one of the world's 'most admired' companies, according to Fortune magazine. With unique access to Starbucks personnel and resources, Joseph Michelli discovered that the success of Starbucks is driven by the people who work there-the 'partners'-and the special experience they create for each customer. Michelli reveals how you can follow the Starbucks way to reach out to entire communities; listen to individual workers and consumers; seize growth opportunities in every market; and custom-design a truly satisfying experience that benefits everyone involved. Filled with real-life insider stories, eye-opening anecdotes, and solid step-by-step strategies, this fascinating book takes you deep inside one of the most talked-about companies in the world today. For anyone who wants to learn from the best-and be the best-The Starbucks Experience is a rich, heady brew of unforgettable user-friendly ideas.

Joseph Michelli (Author), Jonathan Yen (Narrator)

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Stronger Through Adversity: World-Class Leaders Share Pandemic-Tested Lessons on Thriving During the

COVID-19 has disrupted business and life in ways we never imagined. Within days of the outbreak, Joseph Michelli-the world-renowned business expert who has cracked the leadership codes of Starbucks, Airbnb, Mercedes-Benz USA, and many other top companies-went to work. He contacted 140+ senior leaders at major companies about their specific challenges and how they were meeting them-getting raw yet thoughtful real-time insights into a crisis that will define an entire generation of leaders. The result is Stronger Through Adversity. In this business guide for our times, Michelli distills best leadership practices that can be used in any company, in any industry. Organized into four main themes-Set the Foundation, Build Connections, Move with Purpose, and Harness Change-Stronger Through Adversity provides a deep dive into the methods, tactics, and approaches leaders have used to keep their company afloat and to position it for success long after the pandemic. You'll get invaluable insights into crisis management, keeping employees and customers safe, maintaining a culture of engagement, and rapidly innovating. Applying powerful leadership methods used by Microsoft, Starbucks, Google, DHL, Target, Verizon, Kohl's, Marriott, and many others, you'll seize and hold the competitive edge in your industry.

Joseph Michelli (Author), Joseph Michelli (Narrator)

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Mercedes-Benz. Driven to delight

Esta es la historia de cómo Mercedes Benz supo identificar los deseos, necesidades y sueños de sus clientes. El plan que ayudó a hacer de Mercedes-Benz una de las organizaciones más efectivas del mundo en el servicio al cliente. El sólo nombre de Mercedes-Benz hace que te imagines lujo, innovación, calidad y desempeño, pero se necesita algo más que un producto de clase mundial para superar a la competencia. Por eso, los ejecutivos de Mercedes-Benz crearon experiencias únicas para sus clientes que estuvieran alineadas con sus autos legendarios. Mercedes-Benz Driven to Delight revela el plan de acción que utilizó esta compañía en Estados Unidos para catapultar a la empresa al primer lugar en los rankings de estudios nacionales de satisfacción al cliente, al tiempo que mantuvo el crecimiento del negocio. Esta es la historia de cómo la organización supo identificar los deseos, necesidades y sueños de sus clientes. En este libro aprenderás cómo: -Crear una gran visión para generar experiencias excepcionales al cliente. -Identificar las necesidades cambiantes, requerimientos y deseos de tus clientes. -Trazar los recorridos de tus clientes clave y los puntos de contacto de alto valor. -Evaluar la percepción del cliente durante todo el proceso de servicio. -Resolver sus necesidades con rapidez y mejorar constantemente el proceso de entrega. -Asociar las recompensas y el reconocimiento con una excelente experiencia del cliente en tu organización. -Con valiosas lecciones aprendidas directamente de los empleados de Mercedes-Benz, testimonios de fanáticos de la marca e innumerables consejos para crear tu propio mapa del éxito, este libro te muestra cómo afinar tu estrategia de negocios, deleitar a tus clientes e inyectarle combustible a tu equipo en el mediano y el largo plazo.

Joseph Michelli (Author), Bern Hoffman (Narrator)

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The Airbnb Way: 5 Leadership Lessons for Igniting Growth through Loyalty, Community, and Belonging

New from bestselling author Joseph Michelli! How Airbnb has disrupted the hospitality industry for unparalleled success-critical lessons that apply to any 21st Century business No one understands better than Joseph Michelli how businesses create and leverage world-class customer experiences. Over the past decade, Michelli has guided businesses in human experience transformation and revealed how Starbucks, Zappos, Mercedes, and other top companies design and execute the strategies that made them the undisputed leaders of their industries. Now, Michelli turns his attention to major disrupter, Airbnb. In The Airbnb Way, he shows how innovative leaders have managed to build an unique brand by inspiring and engaging a community of hospitality entrepreneurs-a feat unparalleled in the shared economy. Inside, you'll find: * Airbnb's strategies and practices that drive customer engagement and loyalty * How to provide phenomenal customer service in the shared economy * Proven principles for getting the most from all stakeholders-including those who share resources and services * Exclusive interviews with Airbnb leaders, hosts, and guests that provide invaluable information for your business The shared economy is the future, but it introduces business challenges never before faced: How do you serve a broad range of customers across varying geographies through a distributed network of 'partners? Airbnb has solved the puzzle, and Michelli shows you all the pieces-and how they fit together.

Joseph Michelli (Author), Joseph Michelli (Narrator)

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Driven to Delight: Delivering World-Class Customer Experience the Mercedes-Benz Way

New York Times bestselling author shares an inside look at how Mercedes-Benz transformed themselves into a best-in-class, customer-obsessed organization. Driven to Delight offers an exclusive, behind-the-scenes look at CEO Steve Cannon and his leadership team's ambitious, multi-pronged strategy to elevate the company's customer experience to best-in-class across all brands and industries. The author worked closely with leaders inside the organization to understand the customer experience transformation as a top operational and cultural priority for Mercedes-Benz. This audiobook gives readers an exclusive, all-access look at senior leadership's vision, strategy, and tactical steps to create and sustain the wide-sweeping actions needed to deliver the best customer experience.

Joseph A. Michelli, Joseph Michelli (Author), Joseph A. Michelli, Joseph Michelli (Narrator)

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The New Gold Standard

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.

Joseph Michelli (Author), Joseph Michelli, Tom Parks (Narrator)

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The Zappos Experience

Zappos. The name has come to stand for a new standard of customer service, an amazing online shopping experience, a great place to work, and the most impressive transformational business success story of our time. Simply put, Zappos is revolutionizing business and changing lives. Now, Joseph Michelli, author of the internationally bestselling business books Prescription for Excellence and The Starbucks Experience, explains how Zappos does it—and how you can do it in your industry. The Zappos Experience takes you through—and beyond—the playful, offbeat company culture Zappos has become famous for. Michelli reveals what occurs behind the scenes at Zappos, showing how employees at all levels operate on a day-to-day basis while providing the “big picture” leadership methods that have earned the company $1 billion in annual gross sales during the last ten years—with almost no advertising. Michelli breaks the approach down into five key elements: Serve a Perfect Fit—create bedrock company values Make it Effortlessly Swift—deliver a customer experience with ease Step into the Personal—connect with customers authentically S T R E T C H—grow people and products Play to Win—play hard, work harder When you enhance the customer experience, increase employee engagement, and create an energetic culture, you can’t help but succeed. Zappos has woven these five key components into a seamless strategy that’s the envy of business leaders. Now that strategy is yours. With The Zappos Experience, Joseph Michelli delivers a package for instant success right to your doorstep. All you have to do is open and use it.

Joseph Michelli (Author), Joseph Michelli, Tom Parks (Narrator)

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Leading the Starbucks Way

One of the best-recognized and admired brands in the world, Starbucks singlehandedly transformed the ordinary delivery of coffee into a cultural phenomenon—a result of the company’s exemplary leadership practices. Joseph Michelli, author of the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and BusinessWeek bestseller The Starbucks Experience, explains that the international success of Starbucks begins with a promise: To inspire and nurture the human spirit—one person, one cup, and one neighborhood at a time. Michelli offers a perspective on the leadership principles that drove the iconic coffee company’s resurgence from serious setbacks during the economic downturn—one of the few true turnaround stories of this time. And the company continues to grow dramatically, entering new markets and channels with fresh products and technologies. In Leading the Starbucks Way, Michelli establishes five actionable principles that fuel long-term global sustainability at Starbucks and that can be used in any company, in any industry: • Savor and Elevate • Love to Be Loved • Reach for Common Ground • Mobilize the Connection • Cherish and Challenge Your Legacy Leading the Starbucks Way is a penetrating look at the inner workings of one of today’s most successful brands. The company gave Michelli one-on-one access to a variety of employees (called partners) to write this book—from baristas to senior leaders, including Howard Schultz, chairman, president, and chief executive officer. In short, success is all about loving your product, loving your customers, and loving your employees. Sincerely. Without fail. Even in the face of business challenges.

Joseph Michelli (Author), Joseph Michelli, Tom Parks (Narrator)

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Prescription for Excellence: Leadership Lessons for Creating a World Class Customer Experience from

THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES AND WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER! "Like any business, a hospital must be true to its core values in order to succeed. 'Trickle-down values' start at the top with the best leadership, so that all the stakeholders understand and carry out the institution's mission. That is the gift that David F einberg has brought to U CLA. I am in awe of his management skills." -Lynda Resnick, owner of Pom Wonderful, Fiji Water, Teleflora, and Wonderful Pistachios "With clear purpose, unwavering principles, and steadfast leadership, the people at UCLA have established a new bar, a compelling promise, for what healthcare can and should be." -David M. Lawrence, M.D., former CEO, Kaiser Permanente "An absorbing and educational account of a large institution's astonishing transformation. The strong, courageous, and focused leadership of David Feinberg and his outstanding team is evident on every page. A tremendous lesson for all large enterprises." -William E. Simon, Jr., cochairman, William E. Simon & Sons "Most leadership authors describe how to apply common-sense principles. Michelli is a notable exception. He artfully describes the compelling, uncommon leadership practices that transformed UCLA Health System. The resulting lessons are plentiful and powerful for today's business leader." -Lee J. Colan, Ph.D., author of Sticking to It: The Art of Adherence About the Book: Joseph Michelli, author of The Starbucks Experience and The New Gold Standard, is among the world's top authorities on the principles of creating an organizational culture dedicated to service excellence. In these bestselling books, he examines how leading service companies dominate their respective industries with innovative customerexperience strategies. Now, Michelli turns his attention to one of the most complex, controversial, and critical industries-healthcare. In Prescription for Excellence, Michelli provides an inside look at an organization that has become the envy of its industry-and explains how you can dominate your own industry by using the same approach. UCLA Health System is revered worldwide for its top-tier patient/customer care. Great physicians, nurses, researchers, and staff are only part of the equation; UCLA's overall success is a result of organization-wide collaboration that is driven by leaders with a shared vision of unyielding excellence. Michelli breaks down UCLA's approach into five simple principles: Commit to Care Leave No Room for Error Make the Best Better Create the Future Service Serves Us From administrative offices to operating rooms to research centers, continued adherence to these five principles has guided UCLA to financial strength, social significance, and sustainability. The best part is that these principles translate to any industry, so you, too, can achieve similar goals. Michelli gives you the tools to adapt UCLA's ideas, systems, and leadership principles into your own best practices. Whether it is a healthcare organization, a financial institution, or a neighborhood hair salon, good business begins and ends with customer connection. When all workers in an organization focus on providing quality care for those they serve, success inevitably follows. Business is always personal; UCLA's leadership ensures that this simple truth drives every UCLA employee, every day. Apply the lessons Michelli spells out in Prescription for Excellence to create a system that ensures that your people take business personally, day in and day out.

Joseph Michelli (Author), Tony Craine (Narrator)

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The Starbucks Experience: 5 Principles for Turning Ordinary Into Extraordinary

WAKE UP AND SMELL THE SUCCESS! You already know the Starbucks story. Since 1992, its stock has risen a staggering 5,000 percent! The genius of Starbucks success lies in its ability to create personalized customer experiences, stimulate business growth, generate profits, energize employees, and secure customer loyalty-all at the same time. The Starbucks Experience contains a robust blend of home-brewed ingenuity and people-driven philosophies that have made Starbucks one of the world's 'most admired' companies, according to Fortune magazine. With unique access to Starbucks personnel and resources, Joseph Michelli discovered that the success of Starbucks is driven by the people who work there-the 'partners'-and the special experience they create for each customer. Michelli reveals how you can follow the Starbucks way to Reach out to entire communities Listen to individual workers and consumers Seize growth opportunities in every market Custom-design a truly satisfying experience that benefits everyone involved Filled with real-life insider stories, eye-opening anecdotes, and solid step-by-step strategies, this fascinating book takes you deep inside one of the most talked-about companies in the world today. For anyone who wants to learn from the best-and be the best-The Starbucks Experience is a rich, heady brew of unforgettable user-friendly ideas.

Joseph Michelli (Author), Dick Hill (Narrator)

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