Bliss - Chief Customer Officer 2.0: How to Build Your Customer-Driven Growth Engine

Jeanne focused our leadership team on embedding her five competencies into how we do business. Using the content described here, she united us in redirecting how we develop and grow our business and customer relationships.

Doug Holte, President, Irvine Company Office Properties

I guarantee that you will dog-ear this book and refer to it repeatedly to achieve success in your customer experience transformation and leadership role.

Gavan Duff, Chief Customer Officer, MSA, The Safety Company

It's wonderful to see Jeanne Bliss come out with another great book. Chief Customer Officer 2.0 is full of sound, practical advice for leaders who want to help their organizations become more customer-centric. I highly recommend it for anyone who cares about customer experience.

Bruce Temkin, Managing Partner of Temkin Group, Co-Founder, Customer Experience Professionals Association

Jeanne Bliss was the first to bring the chief customer officer role and customer leadership to us. With this book she continues to be a guardian and beacon to customer experience executives around the world.

Kerry Bodine, Coauthor of Outside In: The Power of Putting Customers at the Center of Your Business

Jeanne's five competencies in this book gave us a clear and concise path for improving client experiences and uniting our leadership team.

Dan Schrider, CEO, Sandy Spring Bank

If you believe, like I do, that companies in today's increasingly commoditized world need to be customer-driven and experience-focused, then grab Jeanne Bliss's Chief Customer Officer 2.0 off the shelf, read, and absorb it. Create such a position dedicated to developing a growth engine around the individual, living, breathing customers of your company, fulfill that position, or align with that person. Or, you know, be commoditized.

Joe Pine, Coauthor, The Experience Economy and Infinite Possibility

This is simply the most important book on your reading list right now to help you drive your customer experience transformation.

Joe Wheeler, Executive Director, The Service Profit Chain Institute

There is no one more qualified to write this book than Jeanne Bliss, a visionary and leading light in the search for what customer-centric leaders must do to propel their organizations to greater success. Read Chief Customer Officer 2.0 to capitalize on Jeanne's decades of experience as a practitioner and coach, and learn how to truly embed customer-centric competencies into your organization.

Bob Thompson, CEO of CustomerThink Corp. and author of Hooked On Customers: The Five Habits of Legendary Customer-Centric Companies

Make this book first on your reading list! Jeanne Bliss's thought leadership and ability to unite a leadership team and clarify this work takes years off your customer experience transformation.

Yves Leduc, President, Velan, Inc.

No matter your role in business, run to the cash register with this book. In Chief Customer Officer 2.0, you are provided a model, set of filters, tangible game plan, and the tools you will need to enjoy rewarding and sustainable growth that comes from delighting your customers. The book you are holding is approachable, transformational, and in keeping with the incredible thought leadership Jeanne Bliss has offered throughout her customer-obsessed career!

Joseph Michelli, New York Times bestselling author of Leading the Starbucks Way, The Zappos Experience, and The New Gold Standard

This book should be a reality show because almost every company needs a makeover to make customers a priority again. Chief Customer Officer 2.0 is the best guide for your own successful makeover!

Jeffrey Hayzlett, primetime TV and radio host, speaker, author, and part-time cowboy

Jeanne Bliss has the experience and wisdom to guide you through the process of creating a customer-driven organization.

Shep Hyken, customer service expert and New York Times bestselling author of The Amazement Revolution

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For All the Leaders Who Grow Their Businesses by Improving Customers' Lives

I've been doing this work for so long, that sometimes while I'm waxing on, a Chief Customer Officer (CCO) client will ask, Can you write that down? I don't often do that, because my goal in coaching CCOs and leadership teams is for them to find their own united voice. To help them emerge as customer leaders. We unite the CCO and executive team in focusing their organizations on customer-driven growth. On replacing reactivity and survey score addiction with embedded competencies that became part of the business engine. My job is behind the scenes to ensure they don't fall into the same potholes others before them have, and to help them accelerate their transformation as swiftly as possible.

In the past ten 10 years, since writing and publishing