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Power · 05-13-2008, 01:19 PM

I've seen several episodes of Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares for the past months (I'm actually watching it atm). Ramsay is a successful chef who built his multimillion dollar business in restaurants. The show/episodes are about how he turns around a sinking restaurant business.

There were valuable lessons I've learned watching the show. All of the failing restaurants had one thing in common. Ramsay didn't change anything tremendous and he turned the businesses into a success, always.

Every failing businesses that he saved all had one thing in common: they all didn't know how to perform the basics. The basic of team work in the kitchen, the basics of food handling, the basics of cooking, etc. Once the basics was set in place, the restaurant simply takes off effortlessly. I realize that this is also similar and must be applied in our lives. Often enough we fail because we cannot even perform the basics. We don't have a good comprehension of the basics, whatever it is we are tryng to accomplish. Often enough we don't need out of this world ideas and super tools. First is mastering the basics and once we achieved that, we will see some good results.

Somehow we tend to skip this crucial step (mastering the basics) and we like to proceed with the more advance steps. The other common thing I realized with the episodes were that the people were obliviously ignorant of the matter. I can see that in all of us, that we are not aware of ourselves at times in the things we do that are wrong. Then other people will point it out to us and make us aware of the mistake. But what if there is no one there to point it out to us, what now?

The only way to tackle this is to question ourselves - "why isn't it working?" and "what are we doing wrong?" But how can you question yourself if you are not aware that there is something wrong. There are things that we cannot see for ourselves until someone else points it to us... but that is another story.

The lesson here about personal effectiveness and succes is to master the basics before anything else.

05-13-2008, 01:19 PM	#1 (permalink)
Power Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Melbourne, Australia Posts: 180	Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares: Mastering the Basics I've seen several episodes of Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares for the past months (I'm actually watching it atm). Ramsay is a successful chef who built his multimillion dollar business in restaurants. The show/episodes are about how he turns around a sinking restaurant business. There were valuable lessons I've learned watching the show. All of the failing restaurants had one thing in common. Ramsay didn't change anything tremendous and he turned the businesses into a success, always. Every failing businesses that he saved all had one thing in common: they all didn't know how to perform the basics. The basic of team work in the kitchen, the basics of food handling, the basics of cooking, etc. Once the basics was set in place, the restaurant simply takes off effortlessly. I realize that this is also similar and must be applied in our lives. Often enough we fail because we cannot even perform the basics. We don't have a good comprehension of the basics, whatever it is we are tryng to accomplish. Often enough we don't need out of this world ideas and super tools. First is mastering the basics and once we achieved that, we will see some good results. Somehow we tend to skip this crucial step (mastering the basics) and we like to proceed with the more advance steps. The other common thing I realized with the episodes were that the people were obliviously ignorant of the matter. I can see that in all of us, that we are not aware of ourselves at times in the things we do that are wrong. Then other people will point it out to us and make us aware of the mistake. But what if there is no one there to point it out to us, what now? The only way to tackle this is to question ourselves - "why isn't it working?" and "what are we doing wrong?" But how can you question yourself if you are not aware that there is something wrong. There are things that we cannot see for ourselves until someone else points it to us... but that is another story. The lesson here about personal effectiveness and succes is to master the basics before anything else.