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Chloe Berger
2024-09-01

对阿达莫雷肯来说,“只工作不娱乐会使人愚钝”这句话并不适用。

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达莫拉·阿达莫雷肯(Damola Adamolekun)是华馆(P.F. Chang's)的前任掌门人,他将掌舵一家新开的休闲快餐店。图片来源:Ash Ponders for Fortune

红龙虾(Red Lobster)在过去的一年里举步维艰,在申请破产后成为头条新闻,并将其至少部分归咎于一笔考虑不周的无止境的虾交易。我们中的大多数人都遇到过这种情况。诚然,这家海鲜休闲快餐连锁店需要寻找新首席执行官。

现年35岁的达莫拉·阿达莫雷肯被任命为掌门人,肩负着扭转红龙虾颓势的艰巨任务。阿达莫雷肯曾担任亚洲融合连锁店华馆的首席执行官,作为一名管理奇才,他已经积累了一定的经验。正如他在2023年告诉《财富》杂志的那样,他取得今天的成就绝非依靠假装冷静。他的职业心态只关乎一件事。

“我的生活就是工作,而我的工作就是生活。”他说。阿达莫雷肯说,他每天凌晨4:30左右跑七到八英里(11.3到12.9公里),下午6点左右结束一天漫长的会议,然后抽一根雪茄。

时年33岁的阿达莫雷肯已经创造了历史,是少数几位领导美国大型公司的黑人首席执行官之一,也是第一位领导华馆的黑人首席执行官。两年前,他开始在这家公司任职,他向《财富》杂志承认,刚开始的时候,他忙得不可开交。

他说:“我在马里兰州哥伦比亚的一家华馆旁边长大。当我受到邀约时,我就知道这家公司了。它的品牌知名度约为85%,却是一家小公司。引起我兴趣的是这家公司本身。这是一家经营不善的公司,有很多问题需要解决。”

于是,他“改造了大约80%的内容,引入了更多丰富多彩的装饰、氛围和音乐。”作为千禧一代,阿达莫雷肯还将公司带入了数字时代,关注外卖的数字工具、专为取货服务的餐厅和订阅模式。

在快餐业担任首席执行官前后,他都在金融界供职。在华馆工作了大约三年后,阿达莫雷肯于2023年8月重返投资公司鲍尔森公司(Paulson & Co. Inc.)。在高盛(Goldman Sachs)和德太投资(TPG Capital)工作过之后,阿达莫雷肯形容自己“一直在工作”,尽管他声称自己很喜欢这样。

“我认为这很有趣。所以,并不是说我必须周六去上班。"阿达莫雷肯说,他接受了与千禧一代年轻人相关的喧嚣文化心态。“就像'我有事情要做,我想解决问题,或者我想看一些东西。’”

对阿达莫雷肯来说,“只工作不娱乐会使人愚钝”这句话并不适用。他说:“我从未将工作和生活分开过。工作和生活是杂糅在一起的。”不过他也承认,并非每个人都能做到这一点,那些因工作与生活不平衡而感到压力的人应该休息一下。或者以他的前雇员为例,他们应该“建立缓冲带”,在周二或周三餐厅不那么忙的时候休息几天。

考虑到阿达莫雷肯的工作量很大,而且他自称是一个实干家,这或许是最好的选择。

红龙虾退出破产保护后,将由峰堡投资集团(Fortress Investment Group)及其联合投资者TCW Private Credit和Blue Torch持有。峰堡投资集团(提名阿达莫雷肯担任首席执行官)将在今年9月初的红龙虾破产法庭上听取其计划是否获得批准。

不过阿达莫雷肯不太可能在上任前感到紧张。正如他曾经告诉《财富》杂志的那样,“工作不会给(他)带来压力。”(财富中文网)

译者:中慧言-王芳

红龙虾(Red Lobster)在过去的一年里举步维艰,在申请破产后成为头条新闻,并将其至少部分归咎于一笔考虑不周的无止境的虾交易。我们中的大多数人都遇到过这种情况。诚然,这家海鲜休闲快餐连锁店需要寻找新首席执行官。

现年35岁的达莫拉·阿达莫雷肯被任命为掌门人,肩负着扭转红龙虾颓势的艰巨任务。阿达莫雷肯曾担任亚洲融合连锁店华馆的首席执行官,作为一名管理奇才,他已经积累了一定的经验。正如他在2023年告诉《财富》杂志的那样,他取得今天的成就绝非依靠假装冷静。他的职业心态只关乎一件事。

“我的生活就是工作,而我的工作就是生活。”他说。阿达莫雷肯说,他每天凌晨4:30左右跑七到八英里(11.3到12.9公里),下午6点左右结束一天漫长的会议,然后抽一根雪茄。

时年33岁的阿达莫雷肯已经创造了历史,是少数几位领导美国大型公司的黑人首席执行官之一,也是第一位领导华馆的黑人首席执行官。两年前,他开始在这家公司任职,他向《财富》杂志承认,刚开始的时候,他忙得不可开交。

他说:“我在马里兰州哥伦比亚的一家华馆旁边长大。当我受到邀约时,我就知道这家公司了。它的品牌知名度约为85%,却是一家小公司。引起我兴趣的是这家公司本身。这是一家经营不善的公司,有很多问题需要解决。”

于是,他“改造了大约80%的内容,引入了更多丰富多彩的装饰、氛围和音乐。”作为千禧一代,阿达莫雷肯还将公司带入了数字时代,关注外卖的数字工具、专为取货服务的餐厅和订阅模式。

在快餐业担任首席执行官前后,他都在金融界供职。在华馆工作了大约三年后,阿达莫雷肯于2023年8月重返投资公司鲍尔森公司(Paulson & Co. Inc.)。在高盛(Goldman Sachs)和德太投资(TPG Capital)工作过之后,阿达莫雷肯形容自己“一直在工作”,尽管他声称自己很喜欢这样。

“我认为这很有趣。所以,并不是说我必须周六去上班。"阿达莫雷肯说,他接受了与千禧一代年轻人相关的喧嚣文化心态。“就像'我有事情要做,我想解决问题,或者我想看一些东西。’”

对阿达莫雷肯来说,“只工作不娱乐会使人愚钝”这句话并不适用。他说:“我从未将工作和生活分开过。工作和生活是杂糅在一起的。”不过他也承认,并非每个人都能做到这一点,那些因工作与生活不平衡而感到压力的人应该休息一下。或者以他的前雇员为例,他们应该“建立缓冲带”,在周二或周三餐厅不那么忙的时候休息几天。

考虑到阿达莫雷肯的工作量很大,而且他自称是一个实干家,这或许是最好的选择。

红龙虾退出破产保护后,将由峰堡投资集团(Fortress Investment Group)及其联合投资者TCW Private Credit和Blue Torch持有。峰堡投资集团(提名阿达莫雷肯担任首席执行官)将在今年9月初的红龙虾破产法庭上听取其计划是否获得批准。

不过阿达莫雷肯不太可能在上任前感到紧张。正如他曾经告诉《财富》杂志的那样,“工作不会给(他)带来压力。”(财富中文网)

译者:中慧言-王芳

Red Lobster floundered this past year, making headlines after filing for bankruptcy and blaming it at least partly on an ill-conceived endless shrimp deal. It happens to the best of us. Naturally, the fast-casual seafood chain was in the market for a new CEO.

Damola Adamolekun, 35, was tapped for the difficult job of turning Red Lobster around. Adamolekun, formerly the CEO of Asian-fusion chain P.F. Chang’s already has some time under his belt as an executive wunderkind. He certainly didn’t get to where he is now by pretending to be chill, as he told Fortune in 2023. His career mentality is all about one thing.

“My life is my work. My work is my life,” he said. Adamolekun described his days as starting with a seven-to-eight mile run at around 4:30 a.m and ending at around 6 p.m. with a post-work cigar after a long day of meetings.

Then 33, Adamolekun was already making history as one of the few Black CEOs to lead a major U.S. company and the first to head P.F. Chang’s. Starting at the company two years prior, he admitted to Fortune that there was a lot on his plate when he began.

“I grew up next to a P.F. Chang’s in Columbia, Maryland. I knew the company when the deck landed on my desk. It has about 85% brand awareness, yet it’s a small company. What piqued my interest was the company itself. It was a poorly run one with a lot to fix,” he said.

In turn, he “remodeled about 80% of the fleet, introducing more colorful decor, ambiance, and music.” A millennial, Adamolekun also beckoned the company into the digital age, with attention paid to digital tools for take out, restaurants catering to pike-up orders, and a subscription model .

His fast-casual stints are bookended by the finance world, as after around three years at P.F. Chang’s, Adamolekun returned to investment company Paulson & Co. Inc in August 2023. After previous stints at Goldman Sachs and TPG Capital, Adamolekun described a past where he was “working all the time,” though he claimed to have liked it.

“I thought it was fun. So it wasn’t like I had to go in on a Saturday,” Adamolekun said, embracing the hustle-culture mentality associated in part with young millennials. “It was like ‘I got stuff to do, and I want to knock it out, or I want to look at something.’”

For Adamolekun, all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy doesn’t really apply. “I never really have been a person that separated work and life,” he said. “It mixes.” Though he recognized that isn’t not the case for everyone, and that those who do get stressed by a lack of work-life balance should take breaks. Or in the case of his former employees, they should “build in buffers” and take days off on a Tuesday or Wednesday when the restaurants are less busy.

It’s might be for the best that Adamolekun is a self-professed go-getter, given he has his work cut out for him.

Red Lobster is set to be owned by Fortress Investment Group and co-investors TCW Private Credit and Blue Torch after it exits Chapter 11. Fortress, which nominated Adamolekun, will hear if its plan is approved during Red Lobster’s bankruptcy court date early this September.

Though Adamolekun isn’t likely to get pre-first-day jitters. As he once told Fortune, “work doesn’t stress [him] out.”

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