Chipotle’s COO looks for four key traits when promoting leaders

Last year, 23,000 Chipotle employees were promoted to various leadership roles. The company, which has over 130,000 employees globally, has a tendency to look towards its own staff when it comes to filling those positions. Of those employees promoted, 83% of field leaders, around 90% of restaurant management roles and all regional vice presidents were internal promotions instead of external hires. Chipotle’ chief operating officer Jason Kidd is very involved in the company’s internal promotion…