Will Guidara on Unreasonable Hospitality
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Welcome to Econ Talk, Conversations for the Curious, part of the Library of Economics and Liberty. I'm your host, Russ Roberts of Shalem College in Jerusalem, and Stanford University's Hoover Institution. Go to econalk.org where you can subscribe, comment on this episode, and find links and other information related to today's conversation. You'll also find our archives with every episode we've done going back to 2006. Our email address is mail at econalk.org. We'd love to hear from you. Today is February twenty seventh, twenty twenty five, and my guest is author Will Gadera. He is the former co owner of Eleven Madison Park, which under his leadership was named the best restaurant in the world. He is the host of the Welcome Conference. Co producer of the Emmy Award winning series The Bear
And is recipient of the Wall Street Journal Innovator Award. He is the author of the New York Times bestseller Unreasonable Hospitality, The Remarkable Power of Giving People More Than They Expect. Which is our subject for today. Will welcome to Econ Talk. Thank you so much. Really a pleasure to be here.
On the surface your book is part memoir and part behind the scenes look at what it's like to work at And create one of the best restaurants in the world. But it's really about how to manage, how to lead, how to deal with people, and as the president of a small college Dealing with Leadership issues and management.
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