Disney Brand Loyalty Keynote Speaker
Five daily blogs about life's 5 big choices on five different sites.
Retired Disney Institute Keynote Speaker and Prolific Blogger. Five daily, differently-themed personal blogs (about life's 5 big choices) on five interconnected sites.
It’s like a broken record for career people in midlife.
Overcoming defeat and excuses continues as job one here.
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The first day of a new employee’s work is typically orientation. Often called bore-ientation.
Why make orientation unforgettable, over-the-top amazing?
Because if we can’t deliver it to them on day one, when will we?
We are setting the standard for all the rest of their days with our organization.
Seriously.
And most of us are clueless.
Which is why most employees won’t do any more than you pay them to.
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We read leadership books, blogs, articles. Why?
To improve ourselves.
Have we learned enough from studying and doing to write one?
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Everybody wants to be somebody and that creates tension here – the workplace.
I’ve found that we get more when we need less.
Less approval. Less money. Less status.
The only way to know this is to give up much.
And to do it without giving up who we are.
Most of you know, the writing here is never theory. It’s experience and insights gained from a 54-year long journey, including nearly 30 at one of the world’s most admired companies.
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Let’s say we are stuck at work with something we can’t control, for any reason imaginable.
There are some things we think we can’t control, but can. Let’s not confuse the two. Okay?
We have a gift, but it looks like we’re still waiting for something.
The gift?
The ability to walk away.
Impossible?
Sure feels like it.
You don’t have to quit tomorrow.
Plan your exit one slow, steady step at a time.
You have the gift.
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