After taking a company to the highest levels and selling out for millions of dollars, one executive went to work at McDonalds. Seriously.
That’s the story of Scott Heiferman, as reported in this Business insider piece. There’s a great video interview with him, which is embedded below:
He only worked there for a few weeks, but it was a break for him and a chance to interact with real people. But Heiferman also admits to failures, including the time that he “wasted millions of dollars of AOL money trying to reinvent the keyboard.”
Failure is the secret to success. You HAVE to screw up, period. And sometimes, even when you succeed at selling your company for millions of dollars, it might be time to spend a few weeks at the checkout counter at McDonalds. You may just need to reset—to “fail” in the eyes of many—to prepare yourself to succeed again.