This
week I had the honor of being on hand in New York when restaurateur and Share
Our Strength board member Danny Meyer became only the third person after Wynton
Marsalis and Billy Jean King to win the Preston Robert Tisch Award in Civic
Leadership. It comes with a $25,000 honorarium which Danny donated
to Share Our Strength to use on behalf of recovery efforts related to Hurricane
Sandy.
The
evening included an interview on stage at the Museum of Modern Art with Aspen
Institute President Walter Isaacson who wrote the Steve Jobs biography.
Danny was witty and wise as always, and he used the occasion to
share a number of learning’s he’s taken from his work with Share Our Strength.
He spoke about a tenet of his hospitality philosophy: aspiring to ensure
that his employees and by extension those they served – never felt that things
were happening to them, but rather for them.
It
was an extraordinary evening, and especially moving to see how many people
Danny has inspired with his unique brand of hospitality, leadership and
humanity.
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