Fortune Magazine recently ranked the Walt Disney Company number one for quality.
Intel was number two. UPS number three. Apple number four.
Big names. High expectations. Focused on excellence. Every single day.
What does that mean to you and me?
Author: jeff noel
Retired Disney Institute Keynote Speaker and Prolific Blogger. Five daily, differently-themed personal blogs (about life's 5 big choices) on five interconnected sites.
Apple The Most Trusted?
This Fortune article places Apple at the top of it’s list for the Most Trusted Company.
There’s a reason people either love Apple or don’t love Apple.
It’s as simple as the difference between night and day.
Apple illuminates the risky, undiscovered breakthroughs.
Microsoft illuminates the slow and steady, status quo.
Just like there are people who use the treadmill and train for the local 5k race.
And just like those that challenge the odds and the obstacles, for their Country’s Olympic Trials.
We need both, but only the risk-takers get their photo on the cereal box.
MBAs should be pass or fail
Ever have so much to say that you don’t know where to start?
Sitting here, fingers on the laptop keyboard, I’m hard pressed to find the right place to begin.
And as someone who has worked professionally for 36 years, been to hell and back (twice), overcome addiction, overcome (an invisible) disability, constantly struggles with health challenges, and generally has the weight of the world on my shoulders, inspiration for today’s post should come easy.
But it’s not.
Maybe Sundays would be better off as a “day of rest”.
If that would prove valuable, I’d like rant about MBA degrees. In searching for an MBA program that would suit my ADD, high achieving, aggressively unfancy, professionally antagonistic, uncommonly insightful, intuitive, and overall impatient personality – this may prove helpful in annoying people enough to change.
MBA degrees should be pass or fail, and require a three year commitment.
At the end of your studies, if you do not have a profitable business, you fail.
However, if your tax return, for your entrepreneurial business, has turned a profit, you pass.
And a few moments ago, it seemed as if today’s post wasn’t going to happen.
It’s good to disagree, and I respect you if you do (and most of you do). It’s also good to measure usefulness. Try taking your MBA degree to the Bank. See how much they’ll give you for it.
Childhood Obesity
Why do bars and pubs stop serving customers when they are drunk, but Quick Service Restaurants continue to serve obese people?
Leadership excellence starts with the person dressing you each day.
Why are our Nation’s children obese?
Plain and simple. Ineffective leadership.
How do we expect kids to be healthy if we aren’t.
Fight The Battle, Not The Plan
“Fight the battle not the plan. The plan goes out the window after the first shot….oh and by the way, the enemy (whatever or whomever that may be) has a vote in the outcome of the battle.” — Skip Gaskill
Whether it’s fighting to regain your health, or regain your market share, you are in for the fight of your life, for the rest of your life. Good luck.
PS. A special thank you to Skip Gaskill for his contribution to today’s jungle jeff blog post. Skip simply left a comment a few days ago that was so powerful, it needed to be shared.
PSS. These are unprecedented times. Traditional thinking and game plans are not feasible. It is not my place to offer advice. Only to challenge you to discover your own.