254: From Mopping McDonald's Floors to Opening Up South Africa

Discover Your Talent–Do What You Love

Don Hutcheson

Education, Business, Self-improvement, Careers

5.0 • 619 Ratings

🗓️ 21 April 2016

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Steve Akinboro was cleaning bathrooms and mopping floors in a London McDonald's, a long way from selling things on the streets of Lagos, Nigeria. Struggling to understand the Cockney spoken by his neighbors, a successful career seemed far in the distance. Today, he is a widely accomplished global senior operations executive in the highly competitive retail food service industry. He was instrumental in turning around Domino's Pizza and putting multiple McDonald's regions on the path to unprecedented growth and profitability.

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0:00.0	Hello, world.
0:11.4	Welcome to Discover Your Talent to Do What You Love, Number 254.
0:15.7	I'm creator and host, Don Hutchison.
0:18.3	Every day I interview someone from around the world who has discovered his
0:21.8	talents to do work he loves to create a life of success, satisfaction, and freedom. Cleaning bathrooms
0:28.3	and mopping floors in a London McDonald's, he was a long way from selling things on the streets
0:34.3	of Lagos, Nigeria. Struggling to understand the cockney spoken by his neighbors,
0:39.3	a successful career seemed far in the distance.
0:43.3	Today I'm delighted to bring you our featured guest, Steve Ackenborough.
0:47.3	Welcome, Steve.
0:48.3	Thank you so very much, Donna.
0:50.3	Appreciate you having me on.
0:51.3	It is our pleasure.
0:52.3	Steve, are you using your talents doing work that you love?
0:55.3	Yeah, absolutely.
0:56.6	I am very, very thankful for it as well.
0:59.0	Well, we want to hear the whole story.
1:00.8	Steve Ackinburough is a widely accomplished global senior operations executive
1:05.7	in the highly competitive retail food service industry,
1:09.2	a consensus builder, adapted at building high
1:11.3	performance cultures that deliver record-setting improvements in revenue, employee engagement,
1:16.2	and customer experience.
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