If You Want To Achieve Widespread Impact

There's A Metaphor Vincent Eades Likes To Use: "if You Examine A Butterfly According To The Laws Of Aerodynamics, It Shouldn't Be Able To Fly. But The Butterfly Doesn't Know That, So It Flies.

At Starbucks 0 As In Any Business, In Any Life - There Are So Many Hectic Moments During The Day When We Are Simply Trying To Do The Job, Trying To Put Out The Fires, Trying To Solve Any Number Of Small Problems, That We Often Lose Sight Of What It Is We're Really Here To Do.

Starbucks Is In My Blood. It Is Such A Part Of Me That Letting It Unravel Simply Was Not An Option.

When I Returned As Ceo In 2008, Starbucks Had Forgotten That Meaningful Innovations Balance An Organization's Heritage With Modern-day Relevance And Market Differentiation, So We Had To Reorient. In One Brainstorming Session, We Visited And Observed Great Retailers, Then Asked Ourselves, 'if Starbucks Did Not Exist, What Type Of Coffee Experience Would We Create?

I Think What We're Lacking In Society, Not Only In The U.s. But Also Around The World, Is To Find Heroes Once Again And To Celebrate These Kind Of People.