Category: Emotion Trumps Everything

A simple bowl of cereal sitting with family trumps all other breakfasts

Delta first class cabin breakfast tray
few flights come with a breakfast like this

 

Unfathomable what it would be like in this economy to be doing something we don’t love to do.

Tough enough when we are doing daily work transforming lives.

This is difficult challenging work in and of itself.

And what if we have to do a significant amount of work that wasn’t something that excites us?

We see this everyday. All day.

It’s our job as CEO of You, Inc to figure this out.

To create at least a 51% ‘get to do’.

The predominant goal is to push our work processes and structure so that our ‘get to do’ feels like 80-90%.

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In reality, leader to subordinate is equivalent to parent/child

silly book titles
Should we lecture (tell) about why or facilitate the discovery of why?

 

Parent to child conversation often feels like lecture to the child. Thirteen year olds aren’t thrilled with parental lectures.

What to do?

Stop lecturing.

How?

Adult learners, from the seasoned CEO to the brand new inexperienced, front-line employee, thrive in a learning environment that stimulates, not bores.

Facilitating, which is engaging, is the key, not lecturing, which is boring.

The 13-year old commented that our conversation was actually interesting and he asked me to keep going.

In reality, leader to subordinate is equivalent to parent/child. Think about it. Then use it to become a better parent leader.

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The best leader is the one who really delivers and, additionally, the one everyone…

Pike Place Market piggy bank
The greatest leaders connect the deepest emotionally

 

Pike Place Market piggy bank
The coin deposit slot is wide enough for paper bills to enter easily

 

Business is about getting results.

The best leader is the one who really delivers and, additionally, the one everyone really likes.

That leader we’d follow anywhere. What does that amazing leader do that the other leaders don’t?

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Rarely are the lessons handed to us on a silver platter.

Walt Disney, Hayden Burns, Roy O. Disney coming clean about their huge land purchase
Walt Disney, Hayden Burns, Roy O. Disney coming clean about their huge land purchase

 

Walt Disney World survey marker
Internet would have leaked Walt’s secret land purchases long before he had finished and sky rocketed the land price

 

In trying to help others, we cannot escape our own growth.

Mid Life Celebration is a chip off of this old block – Walt Disney.

For the past 8k posts, have avoided mentioning I work full time at Walt Disney World Resort – and have for three decades.

Why remain silent?

Don’t really know why.

It surely isn’t a secret.

The Internet has ensured there are no secrets.

About anything.

Walt Disney always felt the bar for excellence was never high enough and nothing was impossible.

Insight: Pay attention, there is always a lesson to be learned. And rarely are the lessons handed to us on a silver platter.

PS. Trying to explain why I’ve written five daily, differently-themed blogs is like trying to explain Walt Disney’s obsession with quality – sort of a big mystery, until one day it’s not.

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