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How to Lead Like a Top Chef

Are you passionate, determined, and trustworthy?

Effective leadership occurs when the leader’s emotional intelligence prompts actions that enable a positive workplace. (Credit: CC BY-SA 2.0)
Miguel Noguerol
Mon, 05/15/2017 - 12:02
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The restaurant industry confronts many of the leadership challenges that other industries, corporate leaders, and entrepreneurs face. Chefs and chef-owners play a significant leadership role in their organizations through a variety of operational and social processes. Among these leaders, only an elite group of chefs achieves the recognition to be best-in-class, by operating with excellence, innovation, and delivering exceptional customer experiences.

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In the high-end culinary world, there is intense competition. Successful restaurants rely heavily on talent and innovation, and they need to operate with a high level of efficiency and quality of final products and customer services.

As part of the INSEAD Executive Master program in Consulting and Coaching for Change, I combined my passions and curiosity about organizational leadership behavior and gastronomy and decided to talk with top chefs of best-in-class restaurants to discover: 1) What are the predominant leadership behaviors identified in a group of best-in-class leaders? 2) How do these elements contribute to organizational excellence?

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