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Jan 2020
23m 32s

Setting a High Bar for Your Customer Ser...

Harvard Business Review
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Horst Schulze, cofounder of The Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company, started out cleaning ashtrays as a busboy before working his way up through some of the world's best hotels and becoming COO of Ritz-Carlton and later CEO of Capella Hotel Group. He shares the principles of stellar customer service to which he credits his success — and explains how they apply to eve ... Show More
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