Got Dreams?
“You’ve been thinking like an adult since you were a kid”, she said in response to a story I had shared from my youth.
Told her about wanting to be a Physical Education teacher to help make people healthier, and help make the world a better place. I was in 8th Grade.
So here we are 37 years later, back on the mission to help make the world a healthier place.
Got dreams?
Last one, for now. And I have to tell you, They must really want to be excellent.
Hope you’ve enjoyed this insightful journey into the relative simplicity for having a world-class corporate culture. It works for personal branding too.
How does a one-take-You tube video, five-a-day blogger know? If I have to explain it to you, you won’t understand.
Be well and do GREAT work!
Huh? Exactly.
Hey, here’s a one-take-You Tube video from me again (howdy), jeff noel, the five-a-day blogger.
Are you starting to see how this might work for you? I mean, I’m just a common guy, working really hard at this social media phenomenon.
A few months back, I saw a You Tube video featuring Disney’s CEO, Bob Iger, answering questions as part of some panel.
What Bob Iger said, paraphrased from memory, was this, “Disney isn’t embracing social media. Disney is embracing the customer. The customer is embracing social media.”
Would your customers describe you or your business as hard working? You know, staying current and relevant with their needs and desires?
We would hope our answer is a resounding yes. Why? Because, our competition may be invisible at this point in history.
You see, there are others out there who can see something that our customers need and want, but our customers haven’t identified it yet. And neither have we.
Those other people who can see it? They’re changing the world.
Of the things a leader can spend time doing, maintaining, growing and reinforcing corporate culture should be on the short list of critical success factors.
Can you imagine trying to be world-class with an average corporate culture?
Can you imagine a team of highly energized, focused, and driven professionals in an average corporate culture?
What would happen if a great organization took it’s corporate culture for granted?
What would happen to a good (not great) organization that elevated it’s corporate culture?
The other day, I went outside my Hotel for a breath of fresh air. During a ten minute break to take a walk, I shot a half dozen “one-take-You Tube videos”.
Most of them were about culture. You can observe a lot by watching:
Maybe you are all set with your corporate culture. Maybe you have a great personal culture for you and your family. You do focus these business applications to your personal life, right?
What will GREAT look like for you in 2010?
I can’t imagine being a professional and not being a LinkedIn member. But it’s not unreasonable at this point for many to still not be involved.
My wife is not on LinkedIn, however, I do believe it would benefit her to get started.
Anyway, through LinkedIn, which I read daily, I followed a link - “What Will Great Look Like For You In 2010?” A quote from that link sparked today’s blog post.
So there are two messages today:
A reader commented a few months ago, “You never ask for anything.”
It was, and still is, a question that leaves a funny feeling in my gut.
Why would anyone invest in five daily blogs, reveal secrets, success tips, insightful thinking, be vulnerable and transparent, and never ask for a nickel in return?
“Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.” – Howard Thurman
Leadership priorities. Probably the single most important “to do” on a great leader’s list. Right?
At the top for me is a compelling vision. Then acting with integrity. And thirdly, building trust.
But these aren’t the priorities I’m talking about.
I’m referring to personal, moral priorities.
A few months ago, I had the privilege to hear a Fortune 100 President give a speech. To my surprise he listed his as:
Didn’t see that one coming. Career was third. As a Fortune 100 President. Wow.
Live authentically, serve humbly, live to make other’s dreams come true.
jungle jeff loves vision. Being able to see? You love that? Well, yes, and that’s not what I meant. Not seeing what’s in front of us now, but seeing what could be in front of us well into the future.
“Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.” - Japanese proverb
If you went and looked in the mirror and were compellingly honest, which side of the Japanese Proverb would you fall into? The left side or the right?
“A frog in a well can not conceive of the ocean”. — Japanese Proverb
Hope you can comprehend the first proverb. If you have the title (real or assumed) and you don’t understand it, go look in the mirror again. Are you an amphibian?
It’s been said, “The unexamined life is not worth living”. Carpe diem.
Vision, Mission, Brand. Corporate speak? Sure. Critical success factors? Absolutely. Or, just plain old common sense?
How many successful businesses operate without these? ”None“, would probably be pretty accurate. Seriously, how could they?
And if they can’t be successful, how can we? Ever wonder about your personal life – without a personal vision, mission, and brand?
When companies evaluate their employee, customer and financial goals and results, do you think they could save time and money by not laboring over these things?
Of course. But that would be very short-sighted and very foolish.
Is it me, or is it hot in here?
Yesterday’s post inspired this one. “Without clearly defined…..”
“Money, Money, Money….Money“. The O’Jays, 1974, For The Love of Money.
I want to make a ton of money. Seriously. Enough to buy whatever I want.
First on my list:
To take action, – to “put my money where my mouth is” – I’ve returned to school to earn my MBA.
Maybe that’ll be second on the list – pay off school loans.
Money. Can’t live with it, can’t live without it. Money has always been my biggest stressor.
Eventually, I learned a very simple and very profound rule. It is the first rule that should be learned.
What made this most basic of rules so elusive for me, is that I did not subscribe to common sense. A million reasons for that, which I’ll not even attempt to address.
The second rule I learned is have a business. After reading “Rich Dad Poor Dad” last Christmas, my whole mindset about money was changed forever….