Cooking with business

Imagine being a well accomplished chef, who has faced a variety of situations both in their professional life, and in the kitchen environment. They have produced food in multiple ways, multiple times, for multiple people.

Yet each week, millions of those people gather for a visual feast. They all build with anticipation at the thought of watching said chef take on a seemingly impossible situation. Preparing a multiple course meal from a "secret" ingredient provided to then seconds before a showdown, open kitchened, in front of the world to be judged by an irrelevant panel of food related and often not "professionals".

Most business people would shrink at the thought of this surrounding their "work" day. But true business people will tell you, they treat what they do the same as the Iron chef. It's true, I have found a few...But unlike the chef, they often do not get the satisfaction of meeting those whom they serve. Thats another department. Thats marketing.

The ingredient is not all that "secret" to the chefs. We know this. We all know that they get a possible list of three types of things, that are similar in its constituency, such as three types of "fish", and that the chefs then request a certain list of ingredients ahead of the show. So much for spontaneity. But still, they don't know which "type" of fish. And they don't know what the other chef is going to do. Or do they? They do if they are a true business person.

This goes to show something. That true spontaneity happens only in front of you. What appears to be someones improvisation is actually a well orchestrated event, even if it was in part created by other outside forces.

This is the first rule of cooking with business. Everything comes from somewhere. Somebody had something to do with it. And you have to find out who, if you would like to succeed in business. There is no "secret" ingredient. Deep inside the true businessman, they know whats coming. To know what is coming is true business.

Everyday, flocks of business people hit the streets running towards a goal. For some, it is profit, for others cutting losses. But for the true business person, it is simply about one thing.

Making the most out of whatever whoever throws at you, wherever and however they do it. This is the same as what Iron chefs do. It doesn't matter that they "kind of" know what is coming. They know that one thing is definitely coming. The true secret ingredient.

Themselves. And how they are going to handle it.

And if they can smile afterwords, well, that's the second rule of cooking with business.