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# 5 proven leadership principles Boosts customer experience excellence Exclusive insider insights & stories The New Gold Standard: 5 Leadership Principles for Creating a Legendary Customer Experience Courtesy of the Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company

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## Summary

> ✨ Lead like Ritz-Carlton, deliver legendary experiences every time!

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- **What is this?** The New Gold Standard: 5 Leadership Principles for Creating a Legendary Customer Experience Courtesy of the Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company
- **How much does it cost?** € 58.58 with free shipping
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## Key Features

- • **Empower Your Team Like a Pro:** Learn how respect and training fuel employee excellence
- • **Master the Art of Legendary Leadership:** Unlock the 5 core principles that set Ritz-Carlton apart
- • **Transform Your Customer Service Culture:** Embed world-class hospitality principles into your organization
- • **Access Insider Stories & Proven Strategies:** Real-world examples from Ritz-Carlton’s global leaders and staff
- • **Anticipate Customer Needs Before They Speak:** Discover how to create unforgettable, personalized experiences

## Overview

The New Gold Standard reveals the exclusive leadership principles behind Ritz-Carlton’s world-class customer service. Authored by Joseph Michelli, this book offers unprecedented access to the company’s executives and staff, sharing practical tools, inspiring stories, and proven strategies to elevate any organization’s customer experience to legendary status.

## Description

Discover the secrets of world-class leadership! 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 customersEmpowering employees by treating them with the utmost respectAnticipating customers' unexpressed needs and concernsDeveloping 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.

Review: Leadership, Empowerment and Devotion to excellence - It is about the essence and the philosophy behind the Ritz-Carlton Hotel chain. It has a lot of stories and interview quotes by employees and management which makes it easy to read. Very interesting and a must read for anyone in the hotel business.
Review: Nicely researched and written - Lots of great content and examples.

## Features

- McGraw-Hill

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
|---------------|-------|
| Best Sellers Rank | 188,407 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) 98 in Customer Services 245 in Company Histories 1,089 in Business & Economic History |
| Customer Reviews | 4.6 out of 5 stars 494 Reviews |

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Leadership, Empowerment and Devotion to excellence
*by A***O on 17 January 2019*

It is about the essence and the philosophy behind the Ritz-Carlton Hotel chain. It has a lot of stories and interview quotes by employees and management which makes it easy to read. Very interesting and a must read for anyone in the hotel business.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Nicely researched and written
*by T***E on 30 January 2016*

Lots of great content and examples.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Five Stars
*by F***Y on 18 August 2015*

Excellent book !

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