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How Kat Cole Operates Cinnabon Like A Tech Startup

"We totally celebrate fast failure,"

Hackathons, innovation partners, constant real-time iteration, it’s all happening between layers of cinnamon, sugar, and fluffy dough at Cinnabon.

By Lydia Dishman

Full Story: http://www.fastcompany.com/3028787/bottom-line/how-kat-cole-operates-cinnabon-like-a-tech-startup?partner=rss

Cinnabon’s Kat Cole: Savoring the Sweet Taste of Success

We employee about 12,000 hourly people around the world. We look for people who can live the values of Cinnabon, which is literally being sweet and having fun. On the corporate side, I look for one thing, plain and simple, and that is grit Twitter . Grit can be evidenced even with someone who is just graduating college. It is stick-to-it-ness. It is the evidence that someone has progressed through something over time — their ability to deal with adversity and take on progressive and expanding leadership roles — even if it is a student association or a community group or actually in a job. And if I look back, that is exactly what I displayed when I was young.

Full Story: http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article/141022_kw_radio_cole-mp3/

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How Kat Cole Made It

Ivy Leaguers aren’t chased, skills are secondary concerns. "You hire for attitude and culture fit, because you can always train skill," she says.

Daniel Roth

Full Story: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/20140424121614-29092-how-cinnabon-president-kat-cole-made-it

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