WHAT A DAD TAUGHT HIS SON ABOUT WORK

Work is not simply fulfilling duties, is it? There seems to be more. Ivan is a famous chef. He thought he might share his culinary passion with his young son, who seemed to delight in his dad’s cordon bleu cooking. It would be a good bonding experience, he thought, and his son might learn about work at the same time.

Then, one day, they had several men over for beers and a sandwich. Ivan gave his son Pete strict instructions, adding that a line cook is like a robot. Meals are to be perfect each time.

Well, Pete slipped up. One of the sandwiches was burned. Asked how he could have allowed that slip up, Pete replied that the food was free. Why did it matter?

Taking his son aside, Ivan told him that he is great at this- cooking, and touched lives simultaneously on the job. So he could teach him, he added.

Finally, he asked his son. “Do you want this?”

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Long story short, he taught his son that it didn’t matter if the food was free or not, it must be quality service every single time. Free does not have to mean sloppy or messy work.

Seems like a good principle to live by. Right? To touch lives with our work.

So I end with this verse.

"Time is a line of brightly-coloured scarves pulled from a magician’s pocket – seeming endless, until the moment the show’s over and you realize in a bittersweet rush that you’ve wasted time watching when you should have been doing, speaking, learning…” Author unknown.  

Perhaps, now is a good time to raise the bar?


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