Month: June 2016

The world famous company fell flat yesterday

Southwest jets
Leaving BWI to fetch a cab.

 

University of Maryland advertisement
Inspiring University of Maryland advertisement, and, Jack the Teddy Bear.

 

The world famous company fell flat yesterday.

Did they do something blatantly wrong?

No.

Then what?

They simply didn’t do the basics for which they’ve become famous.

It would be like going to Disney World and the Park was dirty. Assume all the Cast were exceptionally courteous, but the place wasn’t clean.

The flight was fine, it just wasn’t special. At all.

Zero “fun-factor”. Zero laughter.

 

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On April Fool’s Day 2009, jeff noel began writing five daily, differently-themed blogs (on five different sites). It was to be a 100-day self-imposed “writer’s bootcamp”, in preparation for writing his first book. He hasn’t missed a single day since.

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Inaugural Guest Podcast with Jody Maberry

Jungle Skipper Canteen
“World Famous Jungle Cruise” in blurry small print under the larger Skipper Canteen sign.

 

Yesterday Jody Maberry had me on his Podcast as a Guest.

We recorded 30 minutes of conversation.

It debuts in one week on March 22, 2016.

i’ve never done a Podcast before and didn’t know what we were going to talk about.

Jody simply asked questions about Disney and i answered.

 

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On April Fool’s Day 2009, jeff noel began writing five daily, differently-themed blogs (on five different sites). It was to be a 100-day self-imposed “writer’s bootcamp”, in preparation for writing his first book. He hasn’t missed a single day since.

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Sunny with a chance of excellence

Jungle Cruise Skippers t-shirt
Screen shot from Disney’s Twitter feed.

 

Jungle Cruise attraction at Walt Disney World
Strolling through Adventureland midway through yesterday’s 10-mile run.

 

Sunny with a chance of excellence.

 

The word Disney was intentionally left out of my first book. And even though i worked at Disney for 30 incredible years, the book is not about Disney.

 

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On April Fool’s Day 2009, jeff noel began writing five daily, differently-themed blogs (on five different sites). It was to be a 100-day self-imposed “writer’s bootcamp”, in preparation for writing his first book. He hasn’t missed a single day since.

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What if you made purpose your bottomline?

Leadership Chain of Excellence
The ripple effect moves left to right.

 

What if you made purpose your bottomline?

Would your bottomline improve?

And can you defend why or why not?

 

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On April Fool’s Day 2009, jeff noel began writing five daily, differently-themed blogs (on five different sites). It was to be a 100-day self-imposed “writer’s bootcamp”, in preparation for writing his first book. He hasn’t missed a single day since.

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Given the chance we almost always avoid it

Gapingvoid art
Metaphorically speaking, you need to want change as much as you want your next breath.

 

Given the chance to avoid change, we’ll likely take it.

Given the chance, we’ll interpret our opportunity to change as too difficult, too time consuming, too disruptive, and too painful.

Given the chance, we’d rather talk about how miserable uncomfortable we are than do anything that will change our circumstances.

 

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On April Fool’s Day 2009, jeff noel began writing five daily, differently-themed blogs (on five different sites). It was to be a 100-day self-imposed “writer’s bootcamp”, in preparation for writing his first book. He hasn’t missed a single day since.

This website is about our career health. To leave this site to read today’s post on my home health website, click here.