{"id":122766,"date":"2012-08-23T12:40:56","date_gmt":"2012-08-23T12:40:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thecuriousbrain.com\/?p=122766"},"modified":"2012-08-23T12:40:56","modified_gmt":"2012-08-23T12:40:56","slug":"the-perception-gap-what-customers-want-and-what-executiv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecuriousbrain.com\/?p=122766","title":{"rendered":"The Perception Gap: what customers want and what executives think they want"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/socialmediaobservatory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/2012PG.jpeg?resize=546%2C963\" alt=\"\" width=\"546\" height=\"963\" \/><\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/socialmediaobservatory.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">socialmediaobservatory <\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/2012.pivotcon.com\/research-files\/infographics\/2012PG.jpeg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> pivotcon.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"tumblr-crosspostr-linkback\"><a href=\"http:\/\/thecuriousbrain.com\/?p=32895\" title=\"Go to the original post.\" rel=\"bookmark noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">The Perception Gap: what customers want and what executives think they want<\/a> was originally published on <a href=\"http:\/\/thecuriousbrain.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Curious Brain<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>via socialmediaobservatory and pivotcon.com The Perception Gap: what customers want and what executives think they want was originally published on The Curious Brain<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[467,360],"class_list":["post-122766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-other-stuff","tag-info-graphic","tag-social-media"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":122767,"url":"https:\/\/thecuriousbrain.com\/?p=122767","url_meta":{"origin":122766,"position":0},"title":"The Perception Gap: what customers want and what executives think they want","author":"thebrainbehind","date":"23\/08\/2012","format":false,"excerpt":"via pivotcon.com Original Article","rel":"","context":"In &quot;all other stuff&quot;","block_context":{"text":"all other stuff","link":"https:\/\/thecuriousbrain.com\/?cat=1"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/2012.pivotcon.com\/research-files\/infographics\/2012PG.jpeg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/2012.pivotcon.com\/research-files\/infographics\/2012PG.jpeg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/2012.pivotcon.com\/research-files\/infographics\/2012PG.jpeg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":144842,"url":"https:\/\/thecuriousbrain.com\/?p=144842","url_meta":{"origin":122766,"position":1},"title":"When AI Becomes the Boss: Why Even CEOs Should Worry About Their Digital Replacements","author":"thebrainbehind","date":"10\/01\/2025","format":false,"excerpt":"Picture this: A CEO sits in her corner office, reviewing quarterly reports not to make decisions, but to understand choices an AI has already made. 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