Friday, November 11, 2011

Why Loyalty Matters: The Groundbreaking Approach To Rediscovering Happiness, Meaning And Lasting Fulfillment In Your Life And Work By Timothy Keiningham, Lerzan Aksoy

Why Loyalty Matters: The Groundbreaking Approach to Rediscovering Happiness, Meaning and Lasting Fulfillment in Your Life and Work

Why Loyalty Matters: The Groundbreaking Approach to Rediscovering Happiness, Meaning and Lasting Fulfillment in Your Life and Work
By Timothy Keiningham, Lerzan Aksoy

List Price: $24.95
Price: $7.98 & eligible for FREE Super Saver Shipping on orders over $25. Details

Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
Ships from and sold by Amazon.com

46 new or used available from $0.01

Average customer review:
(24 customer reviews)

Product Description

"Why Loyalty Matters" provides compelling insight into how loyalties, large and small, offer the prescription to the emptiness many feel in their lives, and to the increasing fragmentation found in communities through failing businesses.

Product Details
  • Amazon Sales Rank: #1054231 in Books
  • Published on: 2009-07-07
  • Original language: English
  • Number of items: 1
  • Dimensions: 1.00" h x 6.10" w x 9.00" l, 1.00 pounds
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • 224 pages
Editorial Reviews

From the Publisher
"In good times loyalty is important; in challenging times it's essential. Why Loyalty Matters is the best book on loyalty ever written."
--Michael Watkins, bestselling author of The First 90 Days and co-founder of Genesis Advisers

"This is a supremely practical book with a profoundly moral message: that the quality of our lives, the productivity of our organizations, and the depth of our relationships are inextricably related. This book should not be used only as a guide for leaders, but as a guide for life."
--Joseph Grenny, New York Times bestselling co-author of Influencer: The Power to Change Anything

"Loyalty is a key ingredient in creating a high performance culture. Those leaders, athletes, or coaches who can leverage the power of loyalty have a distinct home field advantage. Why Loyalty Matters is the first playbook of its kind."
--David Kasiarz, Senior Vice President, Global Compensation and Benefits, American Express

"Why Loyalty Matters is a wonderful, timely book. Reading it can improve your relationships, your work, and actually make you happier."
--Tal-Ben Shahar, New York Times bestselling author of Happier

"Why Loyalty Matters is fun to read, practical to do, and invaluable to your success."
--Keith Ferrazzi, New York Times bestselling author of Never Eat Alone

"The idea of loyalty is much more than a platitude, it is the foundation by which people develop successful businesses and happy lives. Anyone who seeks to cultivate loyal customers, employees, and loved ones should not only read this book, but mark it up as a reference guide."
--Adrian Gostick and Chester Elton, New York Times bestselling authors of The Carrot Principle

"Loyalty matters! It's so direct and fundamental that we lose sight of just how important it really is. Keiningham and Aksoy brilliantly illustrate that the key to lasting success and happiness--in all parts of life, not just work--hinges on our human ability to be loyal. The message of Why Loyalty Matters is timeless--and timely."
--Stewart Friedman, bestselling author of Total Leadership: Be a Better Leader, Have a Richer Life

"As the CEO of 2,400 employees ranging from veterans to boomers, Xers to Nexters, it is challenging to understand motivation and engagement. Why Loyalty Matters is a brilliant and thought-provoking book that not only identifies issues, but also provides real-life answers."
--Britt Berrett, President & CEO, Medical City & Medical City Children's Hospital, Dallas, TX

"Why Loyalty Matters looks at loyalty in bold, new ways. By taking both a broad and deep view of loyalty--and how it affects our life, our work, and our societies, Keiningham and Aksoy have provided a promising roadmap for our future. Timely, useful, and fun to read!"
--Katherine Lemon, Professor of Marketing, Boston College, and Editor of the Journal of Service Research

About the Author
Tim Keiningham is a world-renowned authority in the field of loyalty measurement and management. He is Chief Strategy Officer and Executive Vice President for Ipsos Loyalty, one of the world's largest research organizations.

A prolific author, Tim has coauthored numerous books on loyalty and service: Loyalty Myths, The Customer Delight Principle, Service Marketing and Return on Quality.

Tim is also an acclaimed scientific researcher, having won numerous awards for his research. He is one of only a very small number of scientific researchers to have twice won best paper from the Journal of Marketing, the most prestigious scientific journal all of management and economics (as measured by the citation index).

Residence: Wayne, NJ

Lerzan Aksoy is an acclaimed expert in the science of loyalty management. She is Associate Professor of Marketing at Fordham University, New York, NY

Lerzan has coauthored and co-edited several books on loyalty and service: Loyalty Myths, Customer Lifetime Value and Profit Maximization Through Customer Relationship Marketing.

Timothy Keiningham and Lerzan Aksoy are two of the world's most highly acclaimed loyalty experts. Tim is global chief strategy officer at Ipsos Loyalty, one of the world's largest market research firms. Lerzan is associate professor at Fordham University in New York City.

Keiningham and Aksoy have written and coauthored eight books on loyalty and service. Previous to Why Loyalty Matters, they coauthored Loyalty Myths, which was ranked as the Number 4 best business book of 2006 by The Globe and Mail newspaper (Toronto, Canada), one of the 30 best business books of 2006 by Soundview Executive Book Summaries, and was a 2007 finalist for the Berry-AMA Book Prize for Best Book in Marketing.

Their groundbreaking research on the importance of loyalty has received over a dozen prestigious scientific awards. For their research together, they have been awarded:

*Marketing Science Institute / H. Paul Root Award from the Journal of Marketing for the article judged to represent "the most significant contribution to the advancement of the practice of marketing."
*Citations of Excellence "Top 50" Award (top 50 management papers of approximately 20,000 papers reviewed that year) from Emerald Management Reviews.
*Outstanding Paper Award (best paper) from the journal Managing Service Quality two years in a row (2007 and 2008).

Internationally renowned seminar leaders and speakers, consultants, and authors, Keiningham and Aksoy are seasoned media veterans and widely sought presenters who frequently address professional audiences around the world.

-----

Luke Williams is a Senior Project Manager at Ipsos Loyalty, where he leads the day-to-day activity of large-scale, international loyalty engagements for the firm.

Customer Reviews

Most helpful customer reviews

12 of 13 people found the following review helpful.
5About Why Loyalty Matters by Keiningham & Aksoy
By Timothy Keiningham
Watch Video Here: http://www.amazon.com/review/R3JQ66Y7XPESE6 The authors of Why Loyalty Matters, Timothy Keiningham and Lerzan Aksoy, provide an introduction to the book.

NOTE: We apologize for needing to use the video review process to upload this video, but our publisher was informed that Amazon was unable to upload our video at the present time under the author section. We will remove this review when Amazon is able to upload the video.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.
5Faltering Loyalty Demands Attention
By Doug Pruden
CEOs worldwide cite customer loyalty as one of their most important strategic objectives. Managers want the greater productivity and staff retention that results from employee loyalty. Consumers want greater loyalty from the brands they buy. Employees feel they deserve loyalty in form of a safe, stable environment in which to work. Individuals seek the fulfillment in their lives that comes from loyal friends, family neighbors and co-workers. Unfortunately, as we see in the research presented here by Keiningham, Aksoy, and Williams, the sense of loyalty in these areas generally has been decreasing throughout our lifetimes.

Our "loyalty sickness" needs attention and this book provides a wake-up call and a start on the road to recovery. As the authors remind us, loyalty is not instinctive in human nature - we all need constant training in the "art of loyalty". That's why "Why Loyalty Matters" is an important read for us all as citizens, as business managers and executives, and as individuals.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.
5loyalty does matter
By Ahu Parlar
fun and easy to read. thought provoking. I really enjoyed reading this book! And it is excatly what we need in out time, in today's world. A must-read book for all the politicians, decision makers, opinion leaders and ordinary people like myself! :) Makes you think and reconsider things...

http://astore.amazon.com/amazon-book-books-20/detail/1933771720

 

 

No comments: