From warzones to boardrooms: José Andrés on leadership learned in the kitchen

Masters of Scale

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Entrepreneurship, Business, Management, Reid Hoffman, Mindset, Diversity & Inclusion, Jeff Berman, Bob Safian, Startups

4.6 • 4.4K Ratings

🗓️ 22 April 2025

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

As the founder of World Central Kitchen, renowned chef and humanitarian José Andrés has truly mastered the art of leading through crisis. José returns to Rapid Response to share insights from his new book, Change the Recipe — a candid collection of personal stories that doubles as a playbook for navigating uncertainty, breaking rules, and leading with heart. José also explores how AI is poised to reshape the food industry, the importance of unplugging, and more. In a world seemingly on fire, José shows us how to harness that fire — without getting burned.

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1:23.8	A good world that in America is full of imperfections and that we need to work together to fix them?
1:30.4	Of course, but you don't fix them burning everything down.
1:36.2	You fix them by coming together to the table, realizing that problems never will be solved by finger-pointing.
1:44.0	Problems will always be solved sitting down in the table and coming together in how we
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