This one phrase from my hospitality years shaped how I look at teamwork


Before I ever ran leadership programs or worked with exec teams, I worked in hospitality. The kind where the shift started with a pre-shift and ended with your feet throbbing, but the service flowed, people moved together, and somehow, the chaos felt organized. There was this one phrase we all lived by, and it was the very first thing I learned: Full hands in, full hands out. Meaning, if you’re heading into the kitchen, grab something that's dirty.Heading back out? Don’t come...