What’s Your Strategic Heartbeat‪?‬

For close to 45 years, Jon Luther, a 2010 inductee into the Menu Masters Hall of Fame, whose members include Wolfgang Puck, Colonel Sanders, and Jacques Pepin, has been running some part of the U.S. food-service industry - from managing the cafeteria at the Wurlitzer jukebox and company to leading Dunkin’ Brands, serving 3 million customers a day around the world.  Drawing on lessons learned in that long career, he describes how he overcame organizational inertia and reset the organizational inertia and reset the strategic direction of three of the companies he has led.  In each case, he began by identifying the epicenter of the brand, the strategic heartbeat.