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		<title>Rethinking the Relationship</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Since their inception, call centers have been infamous for high turnover (especially in the outsource world). While this is no revolutionary statement, I recently had the realization that by my mid-twenties I had personally fired, or overseen the termination, of over 1,000 people (an average of about 200 people a year). I believe my personal [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://chriscrosby.net/blog/2010/08/30/rethinking-the-relationship/</link>
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		<title>My favorite start-up got bought :-(</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Following on the heels of my post last week about the Google acquisition of MetaWeb, my favorite start-up Ellerdale announced that they’ve been acquired by Flipboard. As a reminder: Ellerdale, founded in 2008, has developed a Web Intelligence technology that applies semantic analysis to large, real-time data streams to extract relevant and valuable information. To [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://chriscrosby.net/blog/2010/07/23/my-favorite-start-up-got-bought/</link>
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		<title>RE:The Mega Meta Opportunity (and Google buys Metaweb)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well, less than 24 hours after I posted The Mega Meta Opportunity, Google announced their acquisition of Metaweb. Normally this is where I would insert some smirky comment like “damn I’m good”. But admittedly I’d never heard of Metaweb and just got lucky on the timing of the announcement. Instead, I’ll be grateful to Google [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://chriscrosby.net/blog/2010/07/16/rethe-mega-meta-opportunity-and-google-buys-metaweb/</link>
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		<title>The Mega Meta Opportunity</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Seth Godin provided a teaser on his blog today about the lurking opportunities with metadata (information about information) that I’d like to expand on: Many people and organizations are contributing to this mass of data, but few are taking advantage of the opportunity to collate it and present it to people who desperately need it. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://chriscrosby.net/blog/2010/07/15/the-mega-meta-opportunity-2/</link>
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		<title>Achieving the Status Quo</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One reason I love the Call Center world is that it breeds into you a passion for goal attainment. Everyday when you walk in the door you have a clearly defined set of short-term and long range objectives that must be met. You come in every morning, review your plan over a cup of coffee, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://chriscrosby.net/blog/2009/11/30/achieving-the-status-quo/</link>
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		<title>Goaling</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Setting and achieving goals is one of the most misunderstood and undervalued practices in the world. Most people confuse goals with wishes. Goals have passion and motivation as their impetus and force you to develop a strategy to achieve them. A wish is simply a desire to have or do something, but you put no [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://chriscrosby.net/blog/2009/10/30/goaling/</link>
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		<title>Agent Occupancy and Churn</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I’ve been pondering lately some the practices and methodologies in the Contact Center industry that are out dated and in need of a new approach. One thing that comes to mind is how people measure and manage “Agent Occupancy”. My first lesson in Occupancy came in the summer of 1995 when I transitioned from the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://chriscrosby.net/blog/2009/04/01/agent-occupancy-and-churn/</link>
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		<title>10 Things to Think About with the Future of Contact Centers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Some random musing on some things we need to be thinking about and mantras we need to depart from in order to move call centers forward. Call it too much caffeine on a Monday night…&#160; Soon a Contact Center won’t have a “center” at all We’ve moved from “Calls” to “Contacts”; “Interactions” is the next [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://chriscrosby.net/blog/2009/03/10/10-things-we-need-to-be-thinking-about-in-contact-centers/</link>
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		<title>No Boundaries</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Just read a great post from Seth Godin on “Boundaries.” He breaks the handling of obstacles into two basic categories: Rigid boundaries: What do you do when you hit a wall? Do you have a tantrum? Spend countless resources trying to scale the unscalable? Or do you accept reality and put your energy into something [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://chriscrosby.net/blog/2009/01/08/no-boundaries/</link>
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		<title>Culture and the Customer Experience</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I just read the article Asia’s Call Center Woe’s that discusses an Asia-Pacific consumer survey about customer service. The thesis isn’t a new one: Customer Care matters now more than ever; if your consumers aren’t happy with the customer service you are providing, they will switch to your competitor.&#160; What struck me though is what [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://chriscrosby.net/blog/2008/12/23/culture-and-the-customer-experience/</link>
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