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Customer Service

An annotated collection of 3 books on customer service, spanning 2001 to 2016. Featuring works by The Disney Institute & Theodore Kinni, Tony Hsieh, Jay Baer — each with editorial commentary oriented to digital product practice.

Be Our Guest: Perfecting the Art of Customer Service

The Disney Institute & Theodore Kinni, 2001 · Disney Editions (revised 2011)

The Disney Institute's book on how Disney designs customer experience — a careful account of an operation that has been obsessed with the details of user experience for longer than most of its readers have been alive. Th…

Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose

Tony Hsieh, 2010 · Business Plus / Hachette

Hsieh's account of building Zappos and the culture that made it distinctive — specific hiring practices, obsessive customer service, the explicit investment in employee happiness as a business strategy. The book is part…

Baer's central claim is counterintuitive: customer complaints in the age of social media are not a problem to be managed but a rare source of concentrated feedback, and ignoring them (which most companies do) costs more…