Daniel Schwartz
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501 appearances
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first heard Feb 2026
last heard 10 Feb
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Asia Pacific group, and then we look at by category, all the way we're spending money.
We call this zero-based budgeting.
And we basically give visibility on cost to everyone.
And we say, look, if this one group is spending this much on this area, well, why can't we apply
policies throughout the organization to benchmark both with ourselves internally and other companies externally.
And you find enormous amounts of savings and just doing kind of simple internal and external benchmarking, but you only...
are able to capitalize and achieve those savings if you have buy-in at the top of people who view this as owners of the business who want to run it optimally for the business and not necessarily for themselves.
What does centralize the what mean?
I try not to get too stressed work-wise.
I try to always keep things pretty even keeled.
I had this basketball coach who once said, pressure is something you put in a tire.
I always try to keep that in the back of my head.
I'd say there was one time that I was pretty stressed.
was this was the summer of 2014.
We had bought Burger King in 2010, billion and change of equity,
Within a couple of years, it was objectively a great outcome.
Everyone got all their money and then some back.
And by mid-2014, we were like a $10 billion company and we had owned 70% of the company.
So objectively good.
And we all decided, Alex, myself, and Josh Kobza, who was in our CFO, we all got really excited about buying Tim Hortons.
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