The best leaders are destroyers

Singing Christmas Trees
Singing Christmas Trees, last night. First Baptist Church Orlando seats about 5,000.

 

The best leaders are destroyers.

Want traditional wooden pencils, you must destroy trees.

It works like this in corporate culture.

Some leader(s) figured out how to destroy a process using technology. The result is game changing.

 

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Change is good

Leadership expert jeff noel
The new look.

 

Top Disney Keynote Speaker jeff noel
The old look.

 

We wait.

And we will always be waiting.

We think that will change.

But it won’t.

Why?

Because asking our boss for permission for our crazy ambitious idea offers little for the boss.

If the idea works, we get credit.

If it fails, our boss has made a bad decision.

There are exceptions.

You could have a boss who has mastered the art of risk and reward.

 

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Walt Disney said keep moving forward

Keynote presentation on iPhone
The venue is still using a VGA plug instead of an HDMI.

 

Walt Disney said, “We keep moving forward.”

The photographer will use my iPhone 7 Plus with it’s powerful camera.

The Keynote presentation will be run off the new 12-inch MacBook.

Looked good on paper. The 2016 12-inch MacBook (the newest) shouldn’t have to regress to the old VGA adapter, so

However, the (2016) 12-inch MacBook shouldn’t backslide to the old VGA adapter, so i didn’t buy one.

Why?

HDMI has replaced VGA connections.

But not everywhere.

Not at the Rosen College of Hospitality.

No problem. Using Disney creativity to quickly list options, the easy fix was eliminate the 7 Plus as a camera and use it as the laptop (for which i had a VGA adapter).

Our Son The photographer used his good iPhone 6 Plus to take pictures.

Classic Disney creativity scenario – an original plan unexpectedly falls apart and a new plan is quickly put in place and the Guests never have a clue.

Magic.

 

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Disney Professional Speaker analogy

Customer service nuggets
Her storytelling was masterful and her pace perfect. A common purpose, a customer compass, prioritized quality standards, and even simply defining what wow means were all missing for me. Sure 40 minutes isn’t a lot of time.

 

The speaker had 40 minutes to share her message.

Three points in the photo above.

The best analogy to summarize the experience is to imagine the comprehensive topic of customer loyalty being compared to a comprehensive lifetime commitment to personal wellness.

Imagine a running expert sharing three elements:

  1. Picking the right running shoes
  2. Setting goals
  3. Charting progress

We may pick decent running shoes, set a lofty goal, and log our efforts – and we could nail these things – but what about rest, nutrition, flexibility, core, aerobic and anaerobic balance, not to mention motivation?

The challenge is there’s rarely enough time (and rarely enough expertise) to draw a complete, foundational map.

So speakers share ingredients.

But without the entire recipe, or the complete set of blueprints, we’ll never know what we are baking or building.

So for tomorrow morning’s Disney Creativity and Innovation 30-minute keynote, i’ve carved out contextual time to at the beginning to remind the audience the map being shown is not complete.

 

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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.

 

Please don’t waste your unique, divine gift of personal leadership

Walt Disney World Railroad photos
The Little Engine That Could…

 

Please don’t waste your unique, divine gift of personal leadership.

Respect & embrace your journey, no matter how challenging or impossible – it’s all you have. It’s your unique, divine gift.

Please don’t waste it.

 

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