The Chef as a Leader, With Adam Grant | The Dave Chang Show (Ep. 38)

The Dave Chang Show

The Ringer

Society & Culture, Arts, Food

4.8 • 8.6K Ratings

🗓️ 24 January 2019

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Being a chef is a lot more than just cooking; it requires the ability to manage a kitchen and everyone who works in it. Dave learned the hard way that he needed to control his infamous temper in order to excel as a leader. He discusses this and much more with renowned organizational psychologist and three-time New York Times best-selling author Adam Grant. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Dave Chang show, part of the Ringer podcast network presented by Major
0:15.6	DoeMoe Media.
0:16.6	Today's guest is the world-renowned organizational psychologist, Adam Grant of the University of
0:22.8	Pennsylvania.
0:24.1	He's authored several best-selling books, has an amazing podcast, and if you haven't
0:30.1	checked out his TED talks online, check them out.
0:33.8	They give some great insight as to how to be a better leader, boss, and ultimately just
0:38.3	a better, more empathetic, compassionate person, all of which I think is something that the
0:45.5	culinary industry and the chef industry at large needs to pay attention to how to be
0:49.9	a better chef.
0:51.4	And that's why I wanted Adam on to get some different insights as to how those that
0:55.5	are in the culinary world or those that are not.
0:57.3	I think this is applicable to just about any field where you are a manager of people,
1:01.8	how to be better at your job, at managing people, because I often say to my own cooks and
1:07.1	chefs, being a chef has nothing to do anymore about teaching people how to cook.
1:13.3	It's about how do you manage people, how do you deal with the stress, how to build a better
1:17.3	organization, ultimately that translates into the best customer experience.
1:22.6	And I don't think that there's a lot of culinary books out there.
1:25.6	Certainly not cooking schools, I graduated in cooking school and all I learned was how
1:29.4	to cook.
1:30.8	And it's a one-sided affair because the dynamics and the changing variables in a stressful
1:36.8	situation as a kitchen don't really prepare you about how to be a great chef.
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