Anyone Else Think Like This? – Page 5 – Disney Brand Loyalty Keynote Speaker

Muhammad Ali quote

Impossible is not a fact. It’s an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It’s a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing. – Muhammad Ali

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On April Fool’s Day 2009, jeff noel began writing five daily, differently-themed blogs (on five different sites). It was to be a 100-day self-imposed “writer’s bootcamp”, in preparation for writing his first book. He hasn’t missed a single day since.

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Leadership is such an underused competitive advantage

FHSSA Basketball state championships — The Lakeland Center

Leadership is such an underused competitive advantage. Everything rises or falls because of leadership. Talent is important, and so is teamwork and drive.

Carving out time to think about this is rare.

You are the CEO of You, Inc.

Your leadership deserves reflective time to decide how and what you spend your time thinking about.

Why?

Because what you think about drives what you do.

i used to spend a lot of time doing the wrong (lower priority) things right.

Now for example, i carve out two hours every morning to get ready for a single day.

Over-focus on the same things others under-focus on or ignore.

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On April Fool’s Day 2009, jeff noel began writing five daily, differently-themed blogs (on five different sites). It was to be a 100-day self-imposed “writer’s bootcamp”, in preparation for writing his first book. He hasn’t missed a single day since.

This website is about our career health. To leave this site to read today’s post on my home health website, click here.

The main reason organizational culture change fails

iPhone calculator — Yesterday’s published blog total. Today it changes to 12,702.

The main reason organizational culture change fails is because CEO’s are focused on technical changes instead of adaptive changes.

The cultural disfunction never gets better because CEO’s are attacking symptoms, not causes.

This becomes an insidious pattern of dependency.

Meaning, the sense of urgency, and the fire drills to put out the fires are something people respond well to because the culture is reactive rather than proactive. And there is a “high” you get from “being productive” (putting out fires).

No one (stereotypically) in the organization with influence knows how to be proactive. At least that’s what it feels like to nearly everyone on the front line.

This is where i come in.

Reference: Ronald Heifetz, the nature of adaptive leadership on You Tube.

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So grateful for having to work so hard for so long

Disney Customer Service Keynote Speaker — Weird how 600 people seems like a small audience to me now. Montreal, November 2015.

So grateful for having to work so hard for so long.

Not only am i closing in on the eighth consecutive year of prolific blogging, i’m also one month away (as this is written) from beginning year eight as an entrepreneur. Six and a half of those years i was also working at Disney Institute.

You know those lists of great reasons – the amazing benefits that are touted – for becoming an entrepreneur?

They are under-rated.

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Cashing in

post it note — Self-evident and irrefutable are my wheelhouse.

How old are you?

How much experience?

Are you cashing in?

Theoretically, each of us ought to be able to write a big check. After all, we have spent a lifetime honing our skills.

Here’s what the post-it says:

My model is based on what should be self-evident. If it’s not, i’m not going to try to convince you.

US Marine battle strategy.

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