Chipotle Mexican Grills -- Building Strong Relationships by Giving Back

In my book, 4 Secrets of High Performing Organizations, I suggest that high performing organizations and the people who lead them have four things in common:

• Successful businesses and the people who lead them develop and communicate a clarity or purpose and direction.
• Successful businesses and the people who lead them engage the full commitment of everyone in the organization.
• Successful businesses and the people who lead them skillfully execute the things that matter.
• Successful businesses and the people who lead them build strong, lasting, mutually beneficial relationship with important outside constituencies.

The community in which you do business is an important outside constituency. 

If you read this blog with some regularity, you know that I am a big fan of Chipotle Mexican Grills, a Denver based company.  Their food is fresh and delicious.  But I like Chipotle for more than its food.  Chipotle is very generous to the Denver community.  For example, last Saturday, Chipotle donated the first $10,000 of its sales to Denver Children’s Hospital.

Being sick is no fun.  It’s worse if you are a child or a parent or loved one of a child.  It’s even worse this time of year.  The folks at Chipotle recognized this and made a donation to help brighten up the lives of the kids and families who are spending their time at Denver Children’s Hospital this holiday season.

Here’s another example of what I’m talking about.  Mark Berzins is a friend of mine.  He owns several small pubs scattered across Denver.  The Irish Hound is my favorite.  Besides running his growing group of restaurants, Mark finds the time to give back.  He is on the board of several philanthropic groups here in town.

The common sense point here is simple.  Successful businesses give back to the communities they serve.  They do this because they help others, and because it’s good  business. 

That’s it for today.  Thanks for reading.  Log on to my website www.BudBilanich.com for more common sense.  Check out my other blog: www.SuccessCommonSense.com for common sense advice on becoming the career and life success you are meant to be and to get a copy of my new ebook Star Power: Common Sense Ideas for Career and Life Success.

I’ll see you around the web, and at Alex’s Lemonade Stand.

Bud

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