Kyle Harrison
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Driven to Delight

Driven to Delight: Delivering World-Class Customer Experience the Mercedes-Benz Way
Author
Joseph A. Michelli
Published
2015
Pages
288
Recommended
Once
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A case study of the customer-experience overhaul Mercedes-Benz USA ran under Steve Cannon, written with access to the company: how a dealer network it did not own was persuaded to standardise on a single service standard, and what was measured to know whether it worked.

Why it’s on the list: Appears on @mastersinvest’s 2025 reading list, a feed that skews heavily toward company and founder biography.

Where I saw it: @mastersinvest’s “2025 Reading … so far” list, August 20, 2025, listed there as “Mercedes — Driven to Delight”. The full 46-title list is transcribed on 2025 Reading So Far… (tweet).

Connections

  • 2025 Reading So Far… (tweet) — the list this came from.