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Every time he comes up in these pages, Jeffrey P. Bezos gets identified both as the founder of Amazon and, for disclosure reasons, the owner of The Post. For our purposes today, however, let us identify him first and foremost as an alumnus of McDonald’s.

Garrett Graff’s latest column in his leadership series focuses on how that skill among employees is inculcated under the aegis of the Golden Arches, because while the ice cream maker might be broken, the leadership machine sure isn’t.

Another graduate of the Ray Kroc School of McManagement is Kamala Harris, whose fast-food résumé line seems to threaten Donald Trump enough that he has (falsely) insisted she never worked there.

“That transition from worker to leader is one McDonald’s has carefully mapped and analyzed,” Garrett writes, “not surprising given that its 2.2 million employees make it one of the world’s largest employers.” How has it gotten so good at getting people across that bridge?

Garrett seeks the answer in the trajectory of one employee who made the transition, 21-year-old Jose Pacheco. My takeaway? Do not be surprised if in two decades, we see a 41-year-old........

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