Yesterday I got a chance to read one of Dr. Jim Denison’s article about what “Burger king can teach us.” Hmm..sounds interesting ah. He first made a statement regarding the sales profits of the king that has been doubled in recent years. Speaking of real figures, 4.2 billion in sales (okay I think there are also some restaurant business who already made that claim, right?) and almost 800 new branches and franchises worldwide (and now this is unbelievable..) and that was last year alone. Of course this kind of financial achievement in business will not become reality without the brilliance and a hard working hands of someone who wants to make all things right.
The first question of Denison in his article is this: “Who is responsible for such remarkable success?” Don’t raise your hands, it is not you…lol.
Anyways, I know most us here or maybe some of us here heard the name Daniel Schwartz. He was only 32 years of age when He started to took over the Burger King restaurant and that was four years ago. So you may ask, how is he on his first day as CEO of the company? Did he wear the best suite he have when he go to his office to start day right? Yes correct and he did it with flying colors, “he start working on the broiler, prepare and dressing up sandwiches, He help his crew in taking customer orders, and not only that, the guy also scrubbed toilets and help assist in washing the dishes and mapping the floor”
He is the boss yeah, of course, that is why along the way, he got an opportunnity to know that their restaurant menu needed a-make-over into a more basic kind of preparations and from there, he also cut down the corporate expenses because it’s too high.
Imagine yourself wearing the shoes of Schwartz today. Overnight you became an owner of one of the fastest growing restaurant in the world. Like Daniel, you had no experience in the food chain business and when you look at your team, they are bunch of young, inexperience people yet willing to do the impossible just to join you on your vision for success.
Listen to what Devin Leonard from Bloomberg businessweek says about the Burger King guy “Schwartz and his co-workers are apostles of 3G’s ferocious approach to cost reduction. They talk about the need to instill everybody at Burger King with an “ownership mentality,” meaning mainly that employees should husband the company’s money as if it were their own. That’s put an end to some cherished perks.”
Now can you not become eager and passionate to keep working in this community if you know for sure that partly your are co-owner of steemit. This is our situation and pasition here right now. Steemians are co-workers, co-laborers and co-owners of steemit. What ever profit steemit accumulate, He distributed based on our performance. And I know for sure that business principles of Burger King are also circulating here right now. Lot’s of newbies in this hub including myself, but those who are older steemians here are not against us nor trying to throw us out, instead they are eager to teach us what steemit is all about and how we can able grow as coporate community, working together for a common goal and aspiration. So it’s true, Burger King can teach us something about truth especially in this refuge we called it steemit.com
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