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The crowning achievement of leadership

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This photo just arrived via Bob Stewart on LinkedIn.

 

(Note: Just as this post was being completed, the photo above went live on LinkedIn, thanks to Bob Stewart from Georgia.)

Perhaps the crowning achievement of leadership is being able to provide others with the same type of game changing opportunities that we were blessed with.

In the giving we receive.

Servant leadership.

Looks good on paper, but can we do it without thinking about it?

Workplace (and personal) culture is what we think and do, without thinking.

Being intentional is the most important characteristic determining whether your personal culture works for you or against you.

You are the CEO of You, Inc.

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Worked with Michael Eisner’s office 1988-1990

Tom Staggs
Tom Staggs

 

Variety Magazine ran this piece about Tom Staggs being promoted to the number two position as COO of The Walt Disney Company.

Odds are he’ll replace Bob Iger as Disney’s next CEO on June 30, 2018.

Not many know jungle jeff had the distinct privilege to work with Michael Eisner’s office 1988-1990. An intimacy few have experienced.

Shhh, please keep this a secret. After six-plus years and 11k+ posts, it’s revealed here for the first time.

If it were bragging, it would have happened a long time ago.

WTF…wow that’s funny.

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Ten ideas to unearth writer’s flood content

Disney University hallway
Disney University hallway. Yesterday.

 

Writer’s block? Here are ten ideas for content:

  1. What you learned yesterday.
  2. What you get to do today.
  3. What you hope for tomorrow.
  4. Obvious or invisible paradox.
  5. Common sense that isn’t common.
  6. Simple questions few can (but should be able to) answer instantaneously and convincingly.
  7. Excuses, regrets, opportunity, second chances, and permission.
  8. Art. Your art. Art the world needs.
  9. Impossible things.
  10. Love.

One day you will suffer from writer’s flood. Please don’t cast blame this way. You’re welcome.

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What’s the advantage of hiring a Disney Institute Customer Service Speaker?

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The advantage is unmatched intimacy and experience.

 

Where do we find great business ideas in a sea of time-tested information?

While cleaning yesterday, found two old notes written on a post-it:

  1. Consulting ROI.
  2. Disney Institute (DI) Chamber of Commerce.

Unsure of the first one’s meaning. Can guess it’s about how you convince a client your high price is worth it. The second is a spin off of what DI already does with their Sponsorship Series.

What’s the advantage of hiring a Disney Institute Customer Service Speaker?

The advantage is intimacy.

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Are you prostituting your soul for your career ambitions?

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Yesterday in the middle of a great discussion.

 

The two-day session was designed to help management Consultants. We talked briefly about Mid Life Celebration. Everyone in the room said they could benefit from the message of being responsible for becoming either a great example or a glaring warning to the people we love and care about, simply by the way we live our lives.

Shelly (pictured above) spoke of the “career prostitution”, the habitual commitment to do work that doesn’t feed our sense of authenticity. A commitment that poisons our soul.

She left the corporate grind to start an organization that helps single Moms in desperate need.

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