Iron Chef. Next time you watch
it, imagine these are your managers. As in business, each is given the
same key ingredient, raw materials, time, workplace, and after one
hour, each ends up with a completely different interpretation of what
great food should look like. Fabulous results, but 'different.'
Bobby Flay, Gordon Ramsey, Jamie Oliver, Anthony Bourdain, Lynn
Crawford, the list is long and distinguished. They are all great but
they are not interchangeable. Each can excel in a restaurant, but they
cannot excel in every restaurant. Each has their own style, their own
idea of what great food is.
Certainly some chef's are better than others but what's more important
is that in many instances both chefs are excellent, though their results
are so different. In your restaurant only one chef, or one manager, can
actually excel. Only one can take you to your goals.
That's my point here. We may think we can choose between great managers
but in truth only one will succeed in your kitchen. The other, though
great, would create results your company just can't integrate or make
use of. Great chef, wrong kitchen. Fit, culture, feel, values, so many
variables.
Choose carefully for the success of our business depends on it. Where
you have critical choices to make for key positions, please call me.
Management projects requiring executive fit, skills and culture tailored
for your organization is what we do.
Thank you,
Wolfgang
Jack Welch said, "with the right people in place, things just get
better. With the wrong people in place, things just get worse."
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