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      Winning on Purpose

      Winning on Purpose

      Winning on Purpose
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      The companies with the highest Net Promoter Score℠ in their industry have delivered over 2x the returns of the stock market overall in the last decade. Why?

      Because great leaders embrace a higher purpose to win, and Net Promoter Score (NPS) shines as their guiding star.

      Few management ideas have spread so far and wide as the Net Promoter Score and System. Since its conception almost two decades ago by customer loyalty guru Fred Reichheld, thousands of companies around the world have adopted it – from industrial giants such as Mercedes-Benz and Cummins to tech giants like Apple and Amazon to digital innovators such as Warby Parker and Peloton.

      Now, Reichheld has raised the bar yet again. In Winning on Purpose, he demonstrates that the primary purpose of a business should be to enrich the lives of its customers. Because when customers feel this love, they come back for more and bring their friends—generating good profits. This is NPS 3.0 and it puts the Golden Rule – treat customers the way you would want a loved one treated – at the heart of enduring business success. As the compelling examples in this book illustrate, companies with superior NPS consistently deliver higher returns to shareholders across a wide array of industries.

      But winning on purpose isn't easy. The author also explains why many NPS practitioners achieve just a small fraction of the system's full potential and presents the newest thinking and best practices for doing NPS right. He unveils the Earned Growth Rate (EGR) which provides the first reliable, complementary accounting measure that can truly leverage the power of NPS.

      With keen insight and moving personal stories, Reichheld distills the essentials and advances the thinking and practice of NPS. Winning on Purpose is the must-read story of the management phenomenon of our time – and your indispensable guide for inspiring customer love within your own teams and utilizing Net Promoter to achieve both personal and business success.

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      Meet the Authors

      Meet the Authors

       

      Fred Reichheld

      Bain Fellow | Boston

      Fred Reichheld is the creator of the Net Promoter system of management, the founder of Bain & Company’s Loyalty practice, and the author of five books, including the New York Times bestseller The Ultimate Question 2.0. He is currently a Fellow and Senior Advisory Partner at Bain, where he has worked since 1977. He is based in Cape Cod and Miami.

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      Darci Darnell

      Partner | Chicago

      Darci Darnell is the global head of Bain’s Customer practice. She has served in multiple global leadership roles and today sits on the firm’s top elected governance committee. She is based in Chicago.

       

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      Maureen Burns

      Partner | Boston

      Maureen Burns is a Senior Partner in Bain’s Customer practice. She is one of Bain’s foremost experts on the Net Promoter System and Customer Loyalty. She is based in Boston.

       

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      Praise

      Reichheld is a true pioneer in his field . . . his practical ideas earn a high Net Promoter Score.

      —Adam Grant, New York Times–bestselling author, Think Again

      This book is fantastic! Net Promoter is more relevant than ever in the digital world.

      —Brad Olson, Chief Business Officer, Peloton

      [Reichheld’s] most important work to date. It proves that the primary purpose guiding all great organizations is to enrich the lives of customers.

      —John Donahoe, CEO, Nike

      This book shows how NPS provides companies with both a moral compass and a powerful tool for success.

      —Zeynep Ton, professor, MIT Sloan School of Management; author, The Good Jobs Strategy

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      Winning on Purpose is the latest in 25 years of critically acclaimed books about loyalty

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      • Forbes

        Top Business Books of 2021

        Winning On Purpose: The Unbeatable Strategy of Loving Customers by Fred Reichheld (Harvard Business Review Press)—I’m a huge Fred Reichheld fan and have been a proponent of companies using the NPS (Net Promoter Score) to measure customer satisfaction and loyalty. Winning On Purpose is about NPS 3.0, which is Reichheld’s take on the golden rule—treat customers the way you would want a loved one to be treated. When customers feel the love, they come back to do more business with you, bringing their friends and loved ones along with them. Of course, he backs this up with stats, facts and empirical proof that companies with high NPS scores outperform laggards.

        Forbes

        • Customer Experience
        • dic 12, 2021
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        Opinion: This surprising investing strategy crushes the stock market without examining a single financial metric

        I am not a professional stock picker, but over the past decade my portfolio has beaten the stock market by a factor of three to one.

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        • Customer Experience
        • dic 8, 2021
      • Inc. Magazine

        7 Ways to Be a Truly Customer-Focused Business

        Happy customers quickly become your biggest advocates, reaching far beyond friends and family, and they make traditional marketing efforts pale in comparison for growth, loyalty, and new customer acquisition costs. I was happy to see quantified evidence of this in a new book, Winning on Purpose, by Fred Reichhheld, creator of the Net Promoter system of management.

        Inc. Magazine

        • Customer Experience
        • dic 8, 2021

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