Short YouTube conversation in which Donald Burns discusses the influence of his book Ingredients on a team member. A speaker recounts giving a staff member the book and a day off to read it in the park; the anecdote centers on the employee prioritizing herself and her job after reading. The clip functions as an illustrative leadership/personal-development vignette tied to restaurant leadership themes.
So the new book we have out in my new book is Ingredients. And I remember you. Have you had someone on your team go and read the book, right?
Yeah. One of our members, she was kind of struggling with, you know, making sure that she made her job in her life and herself a priority and gave her the book, gave her the day off and said, go to the park and don't go home and don't be here, but go read this book.
What was the impact after she read that book?
Well, she came back saying that not only, you know, I wanted her to see it from our. From my standpoint, this is what I'm seeing, right? Like, inside of the restroom, y', all, you'll see a problem with this staff member or this table or that, you know, I'm seeing a lot more globally. And so that it gave her an insight to see that. And she's a brilliant girl and has all the ability to completely run whatever she wants to in her life. And so she got that. But she came back saying that, you know, a lot of the principles in there, I need to be applied to my life as well. And that's really us as an owner or a leader, really need to instill in people for them to work on themselves and get their life together. And if they get that together, the work side of it is, like I said, that's the easy one. Learning how to weigh the table or greet somebody if you're in a good place for yourself. That's easy. That's easy.
