Chick-Fil-A Leadership Analysis
The question of failure is, in fact, a success in itself. I frame my life knowing that every obstruction and challenge faced is just a lesson waiting to be learned. The circumstances that genuinely made me believe this philosophy happened when I began working at Chick-Fil-A. Starting my work at the offset of 16 I promised myself that I was going to prove to the management that I was going to progress to become one of the best. Throughout the years of working there I upheld my promise and worked my way up to become a Team Leader. The youngest Team leader ever to work at that Chick-Fil-A.
Yet, I noticed one predicament throughout my experience there, the higher you go in management, the more people seem to dislike you. It began to take an immense toll on my self-esteem. Since I was and still am such a young manager, many of my co-workers, both my age and older, disrespected me and were very reluctant to follow my orders even though I had earned my rigorous position. This at the time seemed to be a daunting task to surmount since there is no real way to grow older, quicker. So, I began to seek advice …show more content…
She gave me the all true saying that you should “never hate the people who are envious of you but respect them because they are the reason you became a leader.” In turn, I decided if I could not make myself older, i would work hard to act older than i am, to make harder decisions, to accept failure and turn it into a success, to turn others jealously into a system of reliability on one another, and to create Chick-Fil-A in the image of what I could only hope for. I decided to create a sense of security in my co-workers to be able to trust me and respect my position. From there, i
Yet, I noticed one predicament throughout my experience there, the higher you go in management, the more people seem to dislike you. It began to take an immense toll on my self-esteem. Since I was and still am such a young manager, many of my co-workers, both my age and older, disrespected me and were very reluctant to follow my orders even though I had earned my rigorous position. This at the time seemed to be a daunting task to surmount since there is no real way to grow older, quicker. So, I began to seek advice …show more content…
She gave me the all true saying that you should “never hate the people who are envious of you but respect them because they are the reason you became a leader.” In turn, I decided if I could not make myself older, i would work hard to act older than i am, to make harder decisions, to accept failure and turn it into a success, to turn others jealously into a system of reliability on one another, and to create Chick-Fil-A in the image of what I could only hope for. I decided to create a sense of security in my co-workers to be able to trust me and respect my position. From there, i