The Company I Keep: My Life in Beauty
- What will it take to have a profitable textile business? 2. What will it take to never be surprised again?
James A. Belasco • Flight of the Buffalo: Soaring to Excellence, Learning to Let Employees Lead
I learned in the customer case discussed just above that how you handle the divorce is as important as the completion itself.
James A. Belasco • Flight of the Buffalo: Soaring to Excellence, Learning to Let Employees Lead
highlights from Danny Meyer’s autobiography via David Senra:
1. I had an uncontainable drive to win.
2. The inception of Shake Shack actually began with a humble hot dog cart. Small as the project was, I took this cart quite seriously. I was asking myself, "Who ever wrote that rule that you can't push the envelopes of excellence and hospitality for
... See moreThe cultural fit had to be just right, too. It was this issue that the partners would spend the most time agonizing over. The five Benchmark partners felt keenly the closeness of a basketball team; in moments of private vanity they liked to think of themselves as the Chicago Bulls in the early nineties, but it wasn’t apt—this was a team that was kn
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