Lying’s downside

Ukraine news update
Russia says they only wanted Donbas. Sure thing Russia. You never lied before, why would you start now?

Lying’s downside?

You are forever labeled a liar.

Good luck suddenly becoming trustworthy.

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Work funny?

Disney Creativity Keynote Speakers Jeff Noel
.think .differently about everything, even humor.

Work funny?

You know what’s career funny?

Depends, right?

Beauty, and humor, is in the eye of the beholder.

Yes, you should get your MBA. And while you’re at it, get your PhD too. Then you’ll get promoted. It’s definitely the lack of degrees that’s holding you back. That, or maybe just maybe, the fact that you lack courage, initiative, creativity, and vision

Note: Sometimes funny stings a lil.

Trivia: Took 6.75 years to get my 4-year degree. Almost wrote it off and didn’t finish.

Got an MBA in 2009.

MBA.

Managing your Business Administration.

Key word is your.

If you have never been an owner, you have no clue what i’m talking about.

And by owner, i mean as an owner who succeeds at becoming profitable and maintains profitability year after year.

Took me six years to make the first dime. Every year since retiring from Disney has earned exponentially more than my final, highest Disney earnings, year.

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MBA syndrome

Disney Concierge team in the 1990's
Disney’s Grand Floridian Concierge Team in the 1990’s. Even 8-10 years into my Disney salaried leadership career, an MBA felt like a legit credential. These days though, i know text-book theories can’t hold a candle to actually running a profitable business.

Actual email exchange today:

Me: Why do you think an MBA is what’s missing? The people who sell MBA’s work hard to exploit insecurities. Discover your insecurities and then pretend you want to slay them as much as an Olympian wants to be on the podium

Them: You’re right on about the sell job advice from the MBA folks. $$$$$$ As for insecurities, I’ve been thinking about your question over lunch… there are definitely ones coming to mind already which create some false assumptions about an MBA’s potential to “patch” insecurity. Conquer them head on with focus!

Me: Your first sentence is encouraging because you didn’t try to defend the industry. Your second is vital because you have signaled to me – and more critically to yourself – that you see the pervasive patch syndrome. The last thing i wanna do is discourage anyone from their plans…and at the same time the last thing i wanna do is see someone blindly follow the herd without looking at the vitality and vibrancy of the herd. It also works in reverse when people leave organizations to start their entrepreneurial lifestyle – most don’t make it. The romanticizing hype always covers its tracks about the vitality and vibrancy of its success rate.

.think .differently

CEO of You, Inc. (embrace it)

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It’s a long way to the top

This ain’t Broadway, but it’s a step in the right direction. The road from here is crowded, and way too long.

They say it’s lonely at the top.

They say you have to be someone special to make it to the top.

What they don’t say is you have to believe what you say.

Why do you want to be on Broadway? Is it worth the grind? Are you raising the bar so high because that’s what everyone who’s anyone says you have to do?

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What marketing ​soundbite would you propose

No one has ever pushed me or my team to think differently the way Jeff has.

No one has done a better job of getting me and my organization to think differently.

Jeff inspires, excites, and motivates as if he is Walt Disney himself.

A modern day Walt Disney.

A category of one.

Jeff points you to your truth.

Our organization will never be the same.

We never knew how vibrant we could become until Jeff led us there.

He helped us solve our unsolvables.

He taught us how to become a category of one.

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