Merry Christmas 2014 to all you leaders out there

Disney Service Speakers

 

(photo: One of the most important questions the audience should ask themselves. “So what does this mean to us?”)

Leaders set the tone.

Leaders maintain, accentuate, or ignore the tone they set.

Year after year.

Heading out shortly for our 15th annual Christmas morning delivery of Food For Families.

We began this Thanksgiving, Christmas and Easter tradition in 1999, the year before parenthood.

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The vision has to be simple, otherwise plan on failing

Disney Management Soeakers

 

(photo: October 30, 2014. One day before the last day of a 30 year run. Had briefly entertained the notion of retiring with Bob until Bob extended his contract three more years.)

Bob Iger speaks briefly about Disney’s three pillars:

  1. Creativity
  2. Technology
  3. Globalization.

Simple.

The vision has to be simple.

Has to.

For a Fourtune 6 Most Admired Company.

For each of us.

Here’s one Company’s simple vision:

The World’s Most Admired Company

Here’s one person’s simple vision:

Humble servant

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The joy of being the boss

Pope Francis

 

(photo: A surprise, and astonishingly brave and inspiring speech just three days before Christmas: Calling out the hypocrisy on the vatican Cardinals.)

First Christmas in 30 years where there are no worries about getting time off to spend with Family.

The responsibility of being self-employed hasn’t fully sunk in.

But the joy of being the boss has.

You don’t realize the weight (of corporate tradition) until it’s gone.

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Will be returning to Disney Institute full time in May

Disney Customer Service Speakers

 

(photo: 2004 Disney collateral piece.)

Will be returning to Disney Institute full time in May.

It was painful to leave Disney last Halloween.

But something bigger needed attention.

Now, after a six month absence, we have agreed to return to Disney Institute as CIO, Chief Inspiration Officer.

Crazy, right?

Sorry, April Fools.

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Happy April Fool’s Day Eve

Disney Leadership Speakers

 

(photo: Wish this tragedy from a few days ago, December 17, was a prank. Fear can paralyze. It can also embolden.)

Trimmed LinkedIn yesterday. It was already brief. Now even more so.

Less is more.

Or is that just an inspiring theory?

Writing for two hours every single day, six years straight, significantly changes what a person fears. And what they’ll do.

It began April Fools Day, 2009 but was only to last 100 days.

It’s been 2,190 consecutive days.

Never saw them coming:

  • The tragedy in the photo above.
  • The writing for years on end.

Never saw either one coming, not in a million years.

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