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'The Weighty Room': That Cheese Stands Alone
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Ari Weinzweig
In 1982 Ari Weinzweig opened, with Paul Saginaw, Zingerman’s Delicatessen in Ann Arbor, MI. Since then the Zingerman’s juggernaut has grown to include a number of businesses, including a creamery, bakehouse, roadhouse, and business-consulting practice. The deli has been roundly rated the finest in the United Statesif not of an entirely different gradeand Zingerman’s mail-order catalog and publications, under Weinzweig’s pen, are some of the most wide-ranging and enjoyable food tomes published here. Many chefs, food writers, and eatersincluding this editorwould gladly live in Zingerman’s, if they decided to open a condominium complex too.
Name, era of birth: Ari Weinzweig. I was born in 1956.
Occupation title(s), both real and desired-in-another-lifetime:
Founding partner of Zingerman’s Community of Businesses.
Another lifetime? Have to think about that one. Early 19th century anarchist pamphleteer? Reporter for the International Herald Tribune during the Russian revolution?
We know the history of Zingerman’s growth, but how about the evolution of Ari as a food writer? Were you writing about food when you first started the deli? Were there always plans for the books?
There were m
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Ari on Leadership and Self Awareness
Last week, 75 leaders had the pleasure of hearing Ari Weinzweig, Co-Founder of Zingerman’s, speak about his new book “A Lapsed Anarchist’s Approach to Managing Ourselves” at my Leaders Connect event (Please enjoy the video of his presentation HERE).
Ari emphasized the importance of self-awareness as a key to becoming a great leader. He described how over the years, he has developed a keen sense of himself and how he has helped his employees become self-aware, as well.
Ari described how he has been able to develop his own sense of self over the 30 some years that he has been leading the Zingerman’s Community. Here are some of his key observations:
- Most people live in a state of “un-freedom”, where they are imprisoned by the beliefs of what they “should do”. (One of my mentors, Dr. Albert Ellis, called this “Should-ing on one’s self”)
- Another form of personal imprisonment is emphasizing what one “cannot do”, as if one has no choice in the matter.
- We also limit ourselves by thinking about what is good for us personally rather than what is good for the people we serve in our leadership roles. Ari has adopted the concept of “servant leadership” as a key to the culture of Zingerman’s.
- Once you understand yourself, you can hire peo