Disney Brand Loyalty Keynote Speaker
Five daily blogs about life's 5 big choices on five different sites.
July 4, 2009. Happy Independence Day!
Started the day running the Watermelon 5k in Winter Park. Then spent the rest of the day with family and friends . Now it’s 9:00PM and I’m going to postpone today’s post until tomorrow.
Today, by the way, President Barack Obama’s audio-animatronic figure was unveiled at The Walt Disney World Resort, at the Magic Kingdom’s Hall of Presidents.
Carpe PM, jungle jeff:)
This reminds me of what vacationing Disney Guests feel like.
My family and I are preparing for my very first Writer’s Retreat combined with an annual summer vacation to our favorite beach get-a-way.
We’ve calculated this is our 23rd visit in the past 21 years.
Same island. Same accommodations. Same Ocean.
Different owners. Different management team. Different emotions.
We are not sure this experience will be as relaxing as in the past.
Why?
Too much change perhaps. Too much focus on the bottom line. Too much heritage lost.
The last one, heritage lost, is the thing that worries me.
Now that our son is almost nine, he has really great memories of this place and looks forward to it even more than we do. Our first Lab went for 12 years. Our second Lab, now ten, has been going to this sunny place since he was four months old.
In fact, last October, we took him there, for what we thought was his last weekend on earth. He obviously, and miraculously, survived – further cementing our emotional attachment to this special place.
We feel like owners. Seriously. I’ve never felt this unusual feeling of entitlement.
Because of our loyalty, we could easily daydream that when we arrive, the trumpets will sound as the red carpet awaits us.
This is what I’m absolutely certain Disney’s long-time returning Guests must feel like.
I hope the trumpets blare and the red carpet awaits them and their families.
What a huge responsibility it is to make people feel like Royalty.
What a huge privilege.
Carpe diem, jungle jeff 🙂
Like the pirate code, leadership principles are more like guidelines:
And like Disney’s Pirate’s Of The Caribbean movie franchise, when you find something that works, like a leadership principle, work the heck out of it.
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Good Tuesday morning everyone. I didn’t think the alarm clock was ever going to go off this morning.
I’ve always been a morning person. Seriously. When I was younger, I used to stay up for it. Now, I wake up for it. Funny how life comes full-circle.
Anyway, here’s a nice post on Disney Institute entitled, The Magic Kingdom goes to SHRM.
It’s written by The Red Recruiter. Once again, Google Alerts sent me an email link.
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As a bonus, I’m providing to you the link to The Red Recruiter’s post on the keynote speaker, Jack Welch.
Jack spoke about, among other things, control, trust and the future.
While you’re dreaming about the future, please don’t forget about today. Carpe diem, jungle jeff 🙂
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