If Disney Ran Your Life – Page 6 – Disney Brand Loyalty Keynote Speaker

Disney Institute on the horizon

Life is funny.

Disney Institute is funny, in a weird way.

In a week, i’ll be there all week.

This is gonna be cool.

Why?

How could it not be?

After 11 years since retiring, maybe one DI colleague is still there. His name is Ben Reed.

It will be (unusually) fun to know what i know, and no one will know what i know.

Note: If you’ve never worked in this space, presenters have a habit of feeling like a rock star. And, presenting themselves like a rock star. Why? Because they sound like someone who ‘wrote the book”. Someone who has lived a life others aspire to.

The truth: They haven’t. Not even close. It’s a privilege to know this “insider information”.

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Leaders eventually leave

Leaders eventually leave.

In a busy world, it’s easy to forget.

Someday a leader retires, gets promoted, moves away, or possibly dies.

We no longer get to interact with that leader the way we originally had the privilege to.

To over-focus on that, i published a life-guide (a book) for our son.

It published Thanksgiving Day 2013. The year before my Disney retirement. Also an over-focused, intentional choice.

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What’s the killer app, work

post it note with handwritten notes — Great leaders use common sense, questions, and paradox to create organizational vibrancy.

Leadership is the killer app.

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Career gymnastics

zoom call screen photo — Spent five hours combing through all my FaceBook posts. Monica’s Real Estate Business Podcast was recorded as a kickoff to her “tribe” of ambitious real estate agents. They listened to one episode per week and then discussed it in a separate (also weekly) Zoom meeting. Watched about 15 minutes of it and it was ‘pretty good’. So i didn’t delete it. It’s here.

Career gymnastics.

Don’t let your blind ambition erase your intuition.

Climb high, but ensure you love what you do.

A ‘good’ paycheck is a high price to pay when you wish you had a more fulfilling job.

Work is only work if you’d rather be doing something else.

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In Disney’s work

Disney leaders at a January 2025 reunion — L-R: Rick, Kathy, Craig, Jean, Chris, Laura, Debbie, and Spencer.

We work while others play.

Holidays, nights, weekends.

You are expected to have “full-availability”.

For your entire career.

Everyone at Disney gets this. Not everyone likes it. But you make a commitment to being on a world-class team and you do your part, like everyone else. Nights, weekends, holidays.

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