Make More Donuts!: How One Sales Manager Learned the Secrets to Creating More Dough
By Greg Bennett
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One day Sales Manager's boss came to him with a direct order -- "Sales...you have to make more donuts!" In fact they wanted Sales to make twice as many donuts, without adding staff or any other support (sound familiar?).
Well like most people, Sales Manager was stressed about how this was going to happen. But like a good soldier he went to work trying to make it happen, but nothing worked. Until one day a savior arrived with a different approach to making more donuts.
This is the story of that stranger and how his unique and simple ideas transformed the life of one Sales Manager, and helped him achieve his goals!
Perhaps you know a Sales Manager in your life who could use the same ideas to create more dough!
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Make More Donuts! - Greg Bennett
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Chapter 1: The Order From On High
My name is Sales Manager. Yes, it’s a strange name I know, but my parents had a sense of humor. And with the last name of Manager you can imagine what fun they had: I have a sister named Department (Deppy for short) and a brother named Assistant (uh...you can guess what we called him).
Anyway, when your last name is Manager you pretty much know what you’re going to end up doing for a living. You’re going to be managing something or someone. In my case it was donuts. I’m what’s called a production manager for a large donut factory. Yes, a donut factory.
I don't know if you've ever heard of something called a donut factory before, but it's where all those wonderfully round, deliciously sweet dough circles are made and shipped all over the world. Oh you may think your local baker is back there churning out dough, and putting them on trays, and dropping them into the oil... well, that's all for show. The actual donuts are made in factories like the one I work at in a little ski town called Steamboat Springs, Colorado (real donuts have to be made at elevations over 6,000 ft).
Inside a donut factory there are giant silos, about 10 of them, that hang from the ceiling. There are people who sit up near the top of each silo and all they do all day is load the ingredients to make the donuts into the silos...their official title is donut maker
...but we call 'em cute names like Little dough boys
...or Flower Children
. Anyway, they crawl up the ladders everyday to the top of the silos where they sit in their own little cubicle surrounded by the ingredients that go into making the donuts. Everyday when I blow my whistle, those crazy Dough-doughs
(another pet name), get busy shoveling the stuff into the top of the silos.
My job as production manager is pretty basic...I collect whatever donuts come out the bottom of those silos. Then I take them and drop them in the office of the big boss, our regional manager. Her job is to then take them to our factory owner. It's that simple. But it's not always easy. The donuts don’t always flow smoothly, sometimes the donut makers get lazy, or cut corners. And sometimes there are clogs in the pipeline and things get backed up. All in all, what comes out of those silos is a crap shoot, and I’m responsible for making it all happen.
And then there are extraordinary situations that come along, like the one that happened a few months ago when my regional manager walked into my office and dropped a bomb in my lap. Here’s what happened:
Hey Sales…guess what? I just heard from the owners that we have to increase production…we need to make more donuts. A LOT more donuts.
Oh? What do you mean by a LOT more?
I asked.
I mean like twice as much as what the donut makers have been making!
"What? Double production? Where did this order come from?"
From on high,
my regional manager said.
Well…someone had to be high to want that….I’m assuming we can add a few new donut makers?
Uh…no. No new people…no new anything. You got a find a way to make it happen with what you got,
she said with a smile.
But…double? How are we going to do that? We’re already working hard…no one is slacking off…how can we possibly…
Look Sales…I don’t make the rules…I was given a number, and now I’m giving that number to you. It’s your job to make it happen. Now…before you freak out…while I can’t allow you to hire anyone new, I can get you some help.
What kind of help?
I couldn’t imagine where she was going with this.
"I’m going to send you one of the top donut making consultants in the world who will work with you and your team. His