On CNBC Leaders Playbook, Shake Shack founder Danny Meyer explains why he hires for emotional skills first. Kindness, empathy, and integrity, he says, are harder to teach than job skills — and they're ...

These leadership takeaways are part of a new primetime series, CNBC Leaders Playbook, premiering January 7 at 10 p.m. ET/PT. Hosted by Julia Boorstin, the series goes inside the minds of the world's ...

Danny Meyer considers hiring to be among the most important parts of his job. Meyer, 67, has spent the last 40 years as a restaurant executive. He opened his first restaurant in 1985, founded burger ...

One of New York's most successful restaurateurs dropped by one of Houston's newest and hottest restaurants of 2025. It is, perhaps, one more feather in the cap for Agnes & Sherman, which has already ...

When Shake Shack founder Danny Meyer interviews job applicants, he likes to ask a couple of his favorite questions. First: What's the biggest misperception other people have of you? You can't respond ...