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VR Evangelist

Job Title of the Future: Linda JacobsonREAD»

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My New Blog

  Frank Harber Senior Pastor, Champions Gate Church A noted Christian speaker, apologetics expert, author and media personality, Frank Harber is the senior pastor of Champions Gate Church in Westlake, Texas. Frank ...READ»

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United They Evangelize

In one corner, we have "latte-sipping, Prius-driving, endive-munching, New York Times-reading snobs." And in the other corner, "Hummer-driving, Bible-thumping, fire-breathing, snake-handling fundamentalists." Just another skirmish ...READ»

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At Least He Was a Consistent Hypocrite

Before he was exposed as a hypocrite about homosexuality, Ted Haggard, who resigned last week as head of the National Association of Evangelicals amid a drug and sex scandal, was already a hypocrite about the environment. As we ...READ»

Moving Heaven and Earth

When it comes to global warming, Richard Cizik and Jim Ball are hell-bent on making fellow evangelicals see the light.READ»

Richard Cizik
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Evangelical Environmentalist Richard Cizik Forced Out Of The NAE

"It looked like Tony Soprano had whacked one of his own. People asked me, 'Rich, do you still have a job?'" When I profiled Richard Cizik two years ago, that's how he described the growing tension between him and the National Association of Evangelicals.READ»

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Does Your Brand Need to be Born Again?

Some brands are timeless: Tiffany's, Ivory Soap, even Coca-Cola. They're classic icons in our minds. They've stood the test of time. We know what they are and what they represent. Their brand story is clear and consistent in any day ...READ»

Ivan Glickman
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Work/Life: Policy is a dirty word

Customer evangelism tip: if you want to bring your customers closer to you, don't use the p-word, at least not to their face. Don't say "Our policy is …" because they don't want to hear about your freaking policy. They want to ...READ»

Evangelism

Quick question: Plenty of people talk about customer evangelism from the standpoint of consumers raving about companies, brands and products, but why is it that we rarely hear about customer evangelism from the standpoint of ...READ»

Circle the Wagons

Everyone at your company is a sales representative. It's true or should be. Why leave it to the biz dev folks to bring home the sales leads? The company I work at experienced fantastic growth and a "we can't lose" adrenaline. Our ...READ»

social justice - Ray Bakke

"The real challenge facing the world is not geographic distance but cultural distance."READ»

Reverence for Radicals

Reverend Cecil Williams, of San Francisco's Glide Memorial United Methodist, is on a mission: He's teaching tradition-bound congregations how to stay vital by embracing change.READ»

Bruce Anderson

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An Introduction...

Hello FC Now followers - this week is going to be fun. Interesting story that got us here in the first place. It all started with Alison Overholt's post regarding a poor customer service experience she had with Starbucks. She used ...READ»

Ivan Glickman
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Megabank Miscalculations: Still treating people like numbers after all these years

Last week in my post about coupon clippers I posted a photo of a sign I came across in Georgia. Once more with feeling: Smile Call customers by their names Thank them for their businessWe all recoil from cheesy and insincere ...READ»

Google PowerMeter

Google's New Do-Good Strategy: Hubris, Genius, or Cutback in Disguise?

The blogosphere is buzzing about a changing of the guards at Google's philanthropic arm. Larry Brilliant is stepping down from Google.org to become chief philanthropic evangelist at Google.com; Megan Smith, the company's VP of ...READ»

Ivan Glickman
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Work/Life: Dr Douglas Meyer, the Patient Evangelist

DONATE TO DR DOUGLAS MEYER'S FAVORITE CHARITY Douglas' family would like to create a functional memorial in his honor. In lieu of flowers, the family would appreciate donations made in his name, Douglas F. Meyer MD, to the ...READ»

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How to Drive a Stake into the Hearts of Shareholders

A recovery without jobs? Halfway through the current recession, it's clear things would have been different if companies had invested in stakeholders and not shareholders. We fired the very people who can turn this around.READ»

Ivan Glickman

DotComplacency: Step away from that mouse and just talk to me

EVERYONE's feeling the recessionary pinch, but online businesses – particularly those selling ephemeral and risk-based products like say, travel insurance, have a distinct advantage. No glassy storefront, no packaged inventory ...READ»

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The 10-minute solution to a customer-service nightmare

Linda's story about being rebuffed at the chocolate shop, reminds of a policy I discovered while writing about Commerce Bank, which practices customer service as if it were a retailer. Its ten-minute rule addresses the exact scenario ...READ»

Can an Old School Learn to Love New Media?

Professor James Short teaches students at the London Business School how to play by the rules of the Internet economy. His mission: To turn Europe's top b-school into a British version of a Silicon Valley garage.READ»

Action Item: The Pitch Called You

Tom Peters on creating and updating your résumé.READ»