🧂Setting The Table— A Leader within it’s Niche 🧂
🔈BROADCASTING THE MESSAGE 🔈
-Invest in Your Community and the Rising Tide will Lift All Boats.🛶
Have you ever heard of the “Excellence Reflex”?? Well, if you’re apart of the 51% then you definitely have it. What is the 51%, you may ask? Don’t worry; I’ll tell you all about it!
I attended a Hospitality Academy for eleven weeks, to enrich both My life experience and career as a chef and culinary professional. During the academic duration we were assigned the fantastic reading material, “Setting the Table” by Danny Meyer.
I didn’t know it at the time but this little Tiffany blue book was to become my guiding source— the lighthouse in the distance that I knew I could rely upon for a safe haven.
This book is filled with great concepts and thought provoking ideas. Anyone can find useful information and inspiration in the chapters not solely the culinary professional. Here were my top-ten most impactful takeaways:
1. “Excellence Reflex” - This is basically the inherent feeling of doing what is right within your core, to the very best of your ability, and to the point of natural repetition, thus creating the “Reflex” of Excellence.
2. The 51% — consists of a set of soft skills as follows: (Not necessarily in this order)
— OPTIMISTIC WARMTH
— INTELLIGENCE
— WORK ETHIC
— EMPATHY
— SELF-AWARENESS
The other 49% is merely Technical Prowess, that can be taught to anyone with good character and who are possessing the other 51%!
3. LIFE DEPENDS ON AUSPICIOUS BEGINNINGS!!— You Should Always Be Collecting Dots (and Connecting Them) and Turning Over Rocks. You Never know When and Where you may make a New Connection or What Type of New Information you may stumble upon if you stay Open and Curious to Life, it’s Ever-changing state, and The People within it.
4.The Utmost Important and Widely Overlooked Question is This: Why Would Anyone Want To-Be Lead By Me??? Answering That Unlocks the Real Potential!
5. KNOW THYSELF!!! Your Center is NOT Their Center! Place Your Salt Shaker where You Feel it Fits Best! — FOR A JUDGE OF CHARACTER, there is NO Color Grey! Surround Yourself with Compelling Human Beings!
6. CONSTANT, GENTLE, PRESSURE — Be Constant, Be Gentle, But Do Not Quit Applying That Pressure!! Diamonds Truly are Formed By It!
7. Become Articulate in What is Expected of Them! — “A lack of Riverbanks and estuaries creates cloudy waters that are confusing to navigate. I want crystal-clear swiftly flowing streams.”
8. LEAD BY TEACHING!! Set Priorities- Hold People Accountable! — USE BENEVOLENT MANIPULATION!! Find a Method that Works for You; I Personally Prefer D.I.S.C Theory.
9. No Matter What Side of The Business, Brand, or Investment You Stand On Think in These Terms of Money: Will This (X,Y,Z) Get Me Today Dollars, Tomorrow Dollars, or Never Dollars! This is its Own Form of Motivation.
10. “People will say a lot of great things and a lot of nasty things as well. Just remember: You are never as good as the best things they’ll say, and you are never as bad as the negative ones. Keep Centered. Know What You Stand For. Strive for New Goals, and Always Be Decent!”
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