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The New Year is here and with it comes the anticipation of turning around all the mistakes and pick up all the fallen projects that got cancelled due to funds or simply slowly vanished because of one thing or another. We have a team that is passionate but also a team that has been up and down more times than Courtney Love.
What does this mean? It means they have been taxed with all sorts of mind altering directives to drive business results. This is very different and unique for chef's to spend most of their time trying to stop the bleeding relative to food costs and labor costs which also extends into productivity. I haven't even touched on moral enhancing, creativity, keeping the team spirits alive and the overall focus of where we were heading.
For leaders that aren't used to this it's a hard pill to swallow so with that comes fatigue, burn out and a lack of intensity that usually kills a kitchen if not caught and rectified immediately. We have a team that has seen it all. Along the journey they have cut their way to the top and have worked with tenacity to get there and with the new economy will reinvent themselves to rise to the occasion and win yet again. This is my team and want the best for them so when times get tough the expectation from me gets tougher. Those that listen to the game plan and put our goals into action will come out on top. Unfortunately there may be casualties along the way. That's not in the script but life throws us lots of hurdles and some may not have the legs or stride to keep up.
We are thankful that we have jobs but damn it that's not enough! We need to prove every single day to not only ourselves but to our ownership that we have leadership DNA and can survive what has been thrown at us. Simply put...we are the music makers.
Go big or go home...
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