Disney Brand Loyalty Keynote Speaker
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Spoke with Jody Maberry yesterday – New Year’s Eve – and confirmed our “If Disney Ran Your Life” podcast will launch January 25, 2019.
Why then?
January 25, 1982 is my original Disney hire date.
Seems fitting to start a “Disney” podcast on the same day that i started a Disney career.
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1. Jeff, what have been the keys to Disney’s success as a company?
A. Visionary Leadership. Obsessive and complete Customer focus. And the fact that we over-focus on the same things others under-focus on or ignore.
2. What of these aspects can be applied today to the Companies?
A. Everything. If you have great leaders with a clear, concise, and compelling vision of the future, and a committed workforce, nothing can stop you.
3. You hear the entrepreneurs say always that lack of money is the problem, is it really?
A. No. Necessity is the mother of invention. Don’t get me wrong, money is a wonderful tool, but your greatest entrepreneurial tools are vision, purpose, creativity, risk tolerance, fun, and determination.
4. What does Disney look for in human talent? What are the inevitable skills to undertake?
A. Let’s begin this answer with a baseline assumption that our job candidates are technically proficient. First and foremost, we prioritize attitude over aptitude. We want friendly, helpful people who delight in making others happy. We want creative people who thrive on taking intelligent risks. We also value personal initiative and people who can make work fun.
5. All people can be entrepreneurs, or are there those who were born for this and those who are not? Why?
A. From personal experience and countless observations of successful and unsuccessful entrepreneurs, to me the key success factor is what Steve Jobs describes as “the crazy ones, the misfits”. You have to be able to see what others can’t yet see. You have to want your vision to come true as much as you want your next breath. If not, quitting will eventually seem like a reasonable choice.
6. From your point of view what are the challenges of Colombia to undertake and manage your talent
A. No person, no company, and no Country can rise to a lofty and noble purpose without a vision of the future that is not only better than now, but much better than now. Most humans need and want to do something that is bigger than themselves. We all want to feel like our contributions make a difference. Figure out how to unleash this in people and Magic will happen.
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If most of your thoughts are original and you’re thinking for yourself about what to do next and in the future, you’re a leader.
If most of your thoughts are, “How can I find somebody to tell me what to do and what to think about next?”, you are functioning as a manager.
Are you a manager who is afraid to do your own thing because you’re not spending time thinking about the future?
This defines the difference between a manager and a leader.
Managers are not thinking about how to make things better now.
Managers are thinking about the status quo – how to maintain the current level of output.
In essence, managers are waiting to be told by someone.
Managers are waiting on someone who has a guarantee.
Managers are waiting on someone who will get blamed if something doesn’t work.
Managers don’t want to take a risk.
What if fails?
What if i get in trouble?
To do something that has never been done before and goes against conventional wisdom…this is not the thing a manager signs up for.
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