Will Guidara
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1,995 appearances
4 recordings
4 series
first heard Oct 2022
last heard 15 Jun
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If I'm going to play a game, I want to win the game.
But gosh, I look back on that moment with gratitude now.
One of my favorites of my dad's quotes is that adversity is a terrible thing to waste.
We cannot always control what life throws at us, but we can control how we respond to those moments.
And that night I left the party early, went back to the hotel and started processing what was next for us.
Every time I set out to achieve a seemingly audacious goal, I always like to start by studying those who've accomplished it before me, learning what I can from them, taking those ideas, making them my own, and then having a go at it and
Every restaurant that had been number one on that list was run by chefs.
Chefs who were unreasonable in pursuit of the food they were serving their product and relentless in pursuit of innovation.
I think oftentimes when we're growing a business, we look at others who are successful and we benchmark ourselves against them.
What are they doing well so that we can start doing those things well?
And that's important.
Although I think there's just as much wisdom in reverse benchmarking, looking at the things that your competitors are not focusing on and making the choice to go fully into those ideas.
In that room, I was the only dining room guy.
I was the only hospitality person.
And so literally that same night, I wrote on a cocktail napkin, we will be number one in the world.
But
A goal without a strategy is nothing more than a pipe dream.
I needed to identify our impact.
And so if they were unreasonable in pursuit of product, we were going to be unreasonable in pursuit of people.
And if they were unreasonable in pursuit of change, we were going to be, but in pursuit of the one thing that would never change, which is to the point of how we started the conversation, our collective human desire to feel seen, to feel cared for, to be welcomed.
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