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We’d always believed we should serve what we wanted to receive. Serve only what you want to serve, and you’re showing off. Serve only what you think other people want, and you’re pandering. Serve what you genuinely want to receive, and there will be authenticity to the experience.

the value of a gift isn’t about what went into giving it, but how the person receiving it feels.

Hospitality isn’t transaction!

Do less, and do it well.

Praise is affirmation, but criticism is investment.

When companies expand, they often say, “The bigger we get, the smaller we have to act.”

Language is how you give intention to your intuition and how you share your vision with others. Language is how you create a culture.

Communicating consistent standards, with lots of repetition, was important; a good manager makes sure everyone knows what they have to do, then makes sure they’ve done it—that’s the black-and-white part of being a leader. But a huge part of leadership is taking the time to tell your team why they’re doing what they’re doing, and I used pre-meal to get into that why.

A leader’s responsibility is to identify the strengths of the people on their team, no matter how buried those strengths might be.