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To Get Consumers to Trust AI, Show Them Its Benefits

Harvard Business Review

But even when the technology is ready to use and has been shown to meet customer demands, there’s still a great deal of skepticism among consumers. In order to understand trust in the relationship between humans and automation, we have to explore trust in two dimensions: trust in the technology and trust in the innovating firm.

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How to Build a Strong Relationship with a New Boss

Harvard Business Review

How should you establish a positive, productive working relationship with your new manager? Your new manager likely has a lot on her plate, so take responsibility for establishing a great working relationship from the start. But it was so sensitive to me, so emotionally intelligent to me as the new manager.”

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Customer Reference Programs at The Tipping Point

Harvard Business Review

Buyers increasingly expect to check with their peers before they'll purchase from a company — using social media, peer communities, old fashioned live events and conferences, personal and professional networks, and other connective tools. This means they want to talk to your customers. Social media understands this and facilitates it.

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How to Write a Cover Letter

Harvard Business Review

Here’s how to give hiring managers what they’re looking for. Chances are the hiring manager or recruiter is reading a stack of these, so you want to catch their attention. With social media, there’s no excuse to not be able to find the name of a hiring manager,” says Glickman. Case study #2: Catch their attention.

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Customer Reference Programs at The Tipping Point

Harvard Business Review

Buyers increasingly expect to check with their peers before they'll purchase from a company — using social media, peer communities, old fashioned live events and conferences, personal and professional networks, and other connective tools. This means they want to talk to your customers. Social media understands this and facilitates it.

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Solving Facebook's Customer Advocacy Challenge, and Yours

Harvard Business Review

This is an area of explosive growth for several reasons: Buyers demand customer content, but it takes too long and is becoming too expensive to create customer case studies and success stories the old fashioned way. Managing customer advocacy programs. And once you do, corporate approvals can take forever.

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The New Calculus of Competition

Harvard Business Review

Cut corners, "manage" your earnings, sub-sub-subcontract. Consider a mini-case study: America. That economy, and those companies, will pursue not just fast food, fast fashion, venti skinny soy extra caramel mochaccinos, and McMansions, slightly faster, cheaper, bigger — but stuff that's a quantum leap better.