Intentionally use phrases, words, and icons to create your culture

Disney University Wall
Photo from Facebook.

 

One of the most important things Disney does to preserve and enhance it’s corporate culture is to intentionally use phrases, words, and icons to create mental images. The daily, over managed repetition creates a powerful emotional connection with Cast Members.

The culture becomes something worth defending.

Imagine your culture being like that.

Can you?

i can.

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Onstage and backstage simplicity is operational genius

prolific blogger jeff noel
Simplicity is operational genius onstage. What the reader sees.

 

prolific blogger jeff noel
Simplicity is operational genius backstage. What the writer sees.

 

Onstage and backstage simplicity is operational genius.

Organizational vibrancy cannot be achieved if the front line can’t prioritize and internalize the most important aspects of your operation.

Ignoring this doesn’t make it go away.

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Simplicity is operational genius

Apple Pencil debut
Apple Pencil debut yesterday.

 

Apple Pencil debut
Simple.

 

Apple Pencil debut
The closer you look, the better it gets.

 

Simplicity is operational genius.

What inspires you in your overworked, overwhelmed day-to-day race on the treadmill of life?

Is it the status quo?

Is it taking risks that no one else takes?

The top photo is an illustration of how simple an Apple Keynote slide presentation is.

It’s a simplicity i over manage in order to emmulate.

If Disney ran your business, they’d insist you do the same.

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One of Disney’s most compelling leadership precepts

Windermere Prep School
Yesterday, waiting for our son at school.

 

One of Disney’s most compelling leadership precepts:

Be active and visible

People see you around everyday they start trusting you. Once they trust you, they’ll start telling you what’s going on. Until then, you get handled and fed what they think you want to hear.

To be clear, if you are not active and visible, you know how this stereotype ends:

The only time our leader comes around to our area is when ________.

 

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