254: From Mopping McDonald's Floors to Opening Up South Africa

Discover Your Talent–Do What You Love

English - April 21, 2016 05:00 - 30 minutes - 14.6 MB - ★ - 1 rating
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Steve Akinboro was cleaning bathrooms and mopping floors in a London McDonald's, a long way from selling things on the streets of Lagos, Nigeria. Struggling to understand the Cockney spoken by his neighbors, a successful career seemed far in the distance. Today, he is a widely accomplished global senior operations executive in the highly competitive retail food service industry. He was instrumental in turning around Domino's Pizza and putting multiple McDonald's regions on the path to unprecedented growth and profitability.