Inspirational story: A CEO who cleaned toilets

Reid Bell (November 7, 1960? January 17, 2005) was born in Kingsford, Australia. Bell (November 7, 1960? January 17, 2005), born in Kingsford, Australia, became chief operating officer of McDonald's Corporation in December 2002 and president and chief executive officer of McDonald's Corporation from April to November 2004, the first non-American to head a McDonald's Corporation. the first non-American to head McDonald's Corporation.

In 1976, when he was just 15 years old, he was forced to seek employment at McDonald's because his family was extremely poor. When the store manager looked at him malnourished, skinny bones, earthy, lack of blood on his face, he said ? There is no need for manpower here for the time being? And politely rejected him, but he was not discouraged, after a few days he came again, more earnestly requested the store manager to give him a job, that is, no pay can be, he said in a low voice, I see that you this toilet hygiene is not too good, so it will affect your business, you arrange for me to sweep the toilet, as long as the solution to my food and shelter on the line. The store manager reluctantly agreed.

Since then, every day before dawn he got up and cleaned the toilet thoroughly, and then went to maintain it every once in a while. His attitude towards cleaning the toilet was like a mother dressing her children: first sweeping the large paper, then sprinkling dry ash on the wet and dirty places to suck the water dry, and then sweeping again. He has even been seen in the middle of the night with bleary eyes checking to see if the toilets are clean.

In order to make his customers feel pleasant even when they go to the toilet, he also put a few pots of flowers and plants in the toilet. Moreover, he wrote some proverbs and aphorisms and pasted them on the toilet wall to create a cultural flavor. Some customers said that the toilets here were cleaner than some restaurant dining places. Three months later, the store manager announced that he was formally hired, so that he received formal vocational training, but also placed him in various positions in the store for comprehensive exercise.

He was then promoted to be McDonald's youngest store manager in Australia, at the age of 19. In 1980, he was posted to Europe, where business soon rocketed. Since then, he has been general manager of McDonald's Australia, president of Asia-Pacific, Middle East and Africa, and head of McDonald's headquarters in Chicago, until he later became CEO of McDonald's.

He, Charlie Bell, who was McDonald's executive general manager, is responsible for McDonald's operations in Australia. Bell, responsible for McDonald's in 118 countries around the world up to more than 30,000 restaurant operations. When the media interviewed him, he did not shy away from the experience of sweeping the toilet, but instead regarded it as the greatest education in life: one thing, you can not go to do, to do, we must go all out, to do the most perfect.

Here, I do not want to comment too much on Bell's dedication, I am concerned about the quality of his bones: humility, tenacity, hard work, beauty, good thinking? These qualities, like natural diamonds, have been carved through suffering to achieve the ultimate splendor!

However, in our real life, the desire to succeed, dream of success, and pay attention to the quality, good treatment of adversity and how many people?

In addition, there is the most important point, is that many people are always the pursuit of career success as the ultimate goal of life, so the beginning of the invisible heavy pressure on their own backs, the psychology of the casino is like a win-win gamblers, win will be happy; lost will be complaining about the sky, a setback, and even seek death, so that the life of the bankruptcy?

In fact, from the example of Bell, we can see that at the beginning of the career, he did not have any grandiose aspirations, he just do as much as possible to do their own thing to do the most perfect, even if his post is the least looked down upon toilet, he also want to take it as a masterpiece of their lives.

So, quality can determine the fate, suffering can be accomplished in life, feet standing anywhere, are the starting point towards success!