Comments on: Gordon Ramsay: 4 Lessons this Angry Chef Can Teach You About Success

By: The Daily Minder

The Daily Minder — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 07:20:01 +0000

Thanks for adding me! I am glad you liked it!

TDM

By: Alex

Alex — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 23:53:54 +0000

I found your site on technorati and read a few of your other posts. Keep up the good work. I just added your RSS feed to my Google News Reader. Looking forward to reading more from you down the road!

By: The Daily Minder

The Daily Minder — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 05:40:40 +0000

I like my irony served hot!

Great comment Alex – I was wondering whether you’d stop by for this one…

Cheers. Great stuff.

TDM

By: Alex

Alex — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 05:32:37 +0000

Yeah I think the daily minder makes an important point, sometimes in life we miss out on the most important lessons because our ego prevents us from recognising and accepting our own weaknesses. This resistence is only heightened when the message is delievered in an abrasive way by a cantankerous prick like Gordon Ramsay, but at the same time these sorts of people (with massive personality disorders) are often the most brilliant at what they do. At the end of the day you have to ask two questions, does the persons message objectively have some merit to it? (regardless of the delivery) and if so, then is the benefit so substantial that it outweighs the sacrafice you make in swallowing your pride to continue to recieve it. In a short term situation like these chefs are in I would almost certainly say yes.

But it is a trade off – and it is worth noting that Gordon Ramsay left his first job training under a brilliant French Chef because he got tired of the bullying himself – How do you like your irony served??

By: The Daily Minder

The Daily Minder — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 01:37:33 +0000

Keira – I get what you are saying and I agree with you. My intention wasn’t to tell people to become mushy little walkovers in their workplace. Rather I was trying to say that sometimes the people you learn from are jerks and it is better to accept it and learn then carry on and complain.

Don’t you think?

TDM

By: Keira

Keira — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 15:57:19 +0000

I’m not entirely sure that bending over backwards to please someone shouting in your face IS the best way of learning.

All of these chefs have ideas and visions of their own. Yes, their restaraunts might be failing, but in actuality, most of them continued to fail after Ramsay visited. They experienced a brief boom thanks to the publicity of the show, and then folded – regardless of whether they followed Ramsay’s advice or not.

If your superior at work is screaming and shouting at you, and setting things on fire, I think you would be perfectly justified in leaving.