The biggest subconscious let downs with keynote speeches

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Very first day as a Disney Cast Member was here, January 25, 1982. Photo, yesterday, January 8, 2015.

 

Two things that a keynote speaker should consider avoiding:

  1. Not gonna tell you what you already know. What’s the point?
  2. Not gonna tell you the amazing thing somebody else did. What’s the point?

No one does anything with this information.

All it does is excite us for an hour or two.

A bit like a one-night stand, to be honest.

What you’ll get from my keynotes is this:

Remarkably deeper, different, and simpler insights than you’ve ever been exposed to before.

Tell us what you do differently. Tell us how it’s changed you. Speak from nothing but experience. Keep your theories and rhetoric to yourself.

This is the long awaited antidote to the two biggest subconscious let downs with keynote speeches.

A bit like deep, long-lasting love, to be honest.

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An art form learned gradually is better than hitting the lottery

List of wish list criteria
Use these three to guide your 2015 wish making: Imagination, hope, joy.

 

Personal leadership is the gradually learned art of making our challenges so compelling to solve and their potential solutions so valuable that we can not wait to get started on them each day.

It’s ok to click through to the HQ post with a question you’ve probably never been asked…

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Why do you do it the “ugly way”?

Senior citizen daily pill taking
Every morning there are ten pills to take.

 

Why do you do it the “ugly way”?

The story here is the prelude for this post’s message.

Prior to iPhone 6, a combination of WordPress and smartphone limitations had the mobile responsiveness feature not fully developed.

A perfectly sized photo and caption on a laptop would be partially cut off on a smaller device. The blog post text would adapt to the much smaller screen, but not the photo and embedded caption.

The only way to read the caption was to remove it from the photo.

Easy fix.

But when technology fixed the original challenge, why didn’t the blogger return to the old (better) way?

Busy, blind, comfortable with a routine.

The teen called it out immediately.

Thank you.

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Perhaps it is the delusional that are best suited to lead

Disney Leadership Speakers

 

(photo: Allentown, Pennsylvania – January 2015)

Which way? This guy’s a zealot? Odds are in his favor.

There’s a fair amount of doubt in ourselves as leaders.

Perhaps it is the delusional that are best suited to lead.

Maybe they are too blind to see what a zealot they’ve become.

And if they can’t see it, it doesn’t frighten them.

Maybe?

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Easy or easily forgotten

Amusement Park Exit sign

 

(photo: Amusement Park exit sign.)

On the second of only three runs in ten days, this sign instantly brought to mind a missed opportunity. An easy thing to add, if only an organization’s culture thinks intentionally – a corporate culture by design, not by default.

Thank you for visiting Dorney Park.

There are variations and or additions that could be added, but most important to communicate is “Thank You”.

Easy.

Or easily forgotten?

Thank you for reading this post. Be amazed and be amazing today.

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