Month: January 2016

Leadership decisions will rarely gain 100% agreement

Teen and seniors
An ordinary moment yesterday.

 

Leadership decisions will rarely gain 100% agreement.

This is insidiously tricky.

When we want to please everyone we do not follow our instinct.

Yesterday my instinct said we need to get outside and walk.

But wait, our time with one of them is limited because he’s over in the adjacent nursing home.

Will we send the wrong message if we leave for an hour? Is it selfish? Is it right? Is it helpful?

When our health is something we are willing defend, we should never lose it.

Never, no matter the cost?

 

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Making tough business decisions should be easy

Birthday candles
Yesterday’s birthday celebrations for 94 and 81 year olds, my mother-in-law’s neighbors.

 

Making tough business decisions should be easy.

Why?

Because making tough decisions never goes away.

To thrive in this harsh reality, as well as build, maintain, and enhance your brand, organizational blueprints are mission critical. Cultural architecture is another way of saying organizational blueprints.

Yesterday (Friday) a tough answer came in from an easy decision i made Monday. The special price offer from a (Lee Cockerell) referal came with structure conditions.

  1. A five day deadline opportunity to commit
  2. Upfront payment in full

The client declined.

Losing business on cost is the price that’s paid to build a reputation, externally and maybe more importantly, internally.

Do what you say you’re going to do.

 

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Cashing in

post it note
Self-evident and irrefutable are my wheelhouse.

 

How old are you?

How much experience?

Are you cashing in?

Theoretically, each of us ought to be able to write a big check. After all, we have spent a lifetime honing our skills.

Here’s what the post-it says:

My model is based on what should be self-evident. If it’s not, i’m not going to try to convince you.

US Marine battle strategy.

 

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No one wants to hear this

iAqualink pool wifi device
Yesterday. The digital infrastructure to run my swimming pool from an iPhone.

 

No one wants to do the deep thinking and have the heavy discussions about building or maintaining an infrastructure.

Why?

Because it’s too much work, especially the implementation and change (transformation) part.

So we wait and do nothing – the twin siblings of diseased organizational culture.

Think for a moment about trying to change a culture without the proper infrastructure.

Insight: Creating infrastructure is what working at Disney has polished me to do better than anyone in this space. i know the secret formulas. And what works and doesn’t work in implementing them.

How?

From working inside Disney for 30+ years, including the final 15 years at Disney Institute working with over 2,000 clients (and one-million+ people), including many of the world’s most famous brands.

#truth

 

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i keep telling myself to think like these four people

Disney's Jungle Cruise
My very first role at Walt Disney World was as ‘jungle jeff’ in 1982.

 

i keep telling myself to think like these four people:

  1. Mother Teresa
  2. Walt Disney
  3. Jesus
  4. Steve Jobs

These are big shoes to fill.

What are the limits that i have?

Only those i convince myself of.

Right?

Yes.

But, but.

You don’t have to say a word, but know that i know you know this for yourself as well.

It’s downright frightening what our potential is.

Right?

 

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