Category: Quotable

Risk begets risk

LinkedIn post
Took ‘outsiders’ on this ramp for a tour and presentation with a Casting leader countless times. Was in the Casting Building before it opened (1989, btw) to help Cheryl transfer her Casting office from the DISC Building trailers to this amazing brand new Disney asset right next to I-4.

Culture is by design or by default. It ain’t more complicated than that.

dad

When i birthed Disney Institute’s nomenclature ‘so what?’, it was on the return from a Casting Center visit.

It’s a story for another time. Why? Today’s mental, creative, and energy bandwidth.

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Culture readiness test

Numbers on a Post-it note
Remember this from today’s first post? Did you know the world record for most posts by a single author is 17,212? Look at those numbers…i’m not even close.
18-second video: Not proud of my delayed response to Kent, but then it hit me, he’s been in my shoes. Grateful to be able think thoughts like this, articulate them, and capture them “in person” instead of just sending one dimensional letters structured with words and sentences.

By design begets by design. By default begets by default.

dad

Yes or no?

Aim for all yesses, except for one no:

  1. Nothing is more important than your culture?
  2. Growth dilutes culture?
  3. Culture drives habits?
  4. Habits drive results?
  5. Culture drives results?
  6. Your culture is currently world-class?
  7. Do you want your culture to be world-class?
  8. You have an executive Organizational Vibrancy leader?
  9. You have five front-line salaried Organizational Vibrancy leaders?
  10. You have a one-year budget for an Organizational Vibrancy team?
  11. You clearly understand that Organizational Vibrancy is not a bricks and mortar asset?
  12. You clearly understand that Organizational Vibrancy is an organizational heart-and-soul asset?
  13. Not everything that can be measured matters and not everything that matters can be measured?
  14. Personal vibrancy and organizational vibrancy are the same thing in two different vessels: one is a person and one is an organization?
  15. You know organizational vibrancy, like personal vibrancy is contingent on a person’s/people’s focus, discipline, structure, process, and motivation?
  16. Good is the enemy of great?
  17. Good and very good aren’t good enough?

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Everyone loves change

Apple Podcasts update
Humbling to recall recording 100 episodes of ”If Disney Ran Your Life”.
30-second video: Supposedly the largest Publix ever built. And the first one in Kentucky. And….adjacent to my hotel.

Change creates too many unanswerable questions, which scares people.

dad

People like predictability.

It makes us feel safe, in general.

There’s negative predictability too but that’s not the topic here.

Change, specifically for organizational progress, disrupts predictability.

You may have heard of this change cycle:

  • Storming
  • Forming
  • Norming
  • Performing

Resistance to change is likely an evolutionary inheritance.

Early humans saw that deviation from a reliable system often led to being eaten.

The good news, saber-toothed tigers are extinct.

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Surprises can be developmental

leadershipchecklist from Jeff noel
This is from my business website. Wrote it years ago. Gotta say…it inspires me years later.

An impossible goal is the only goal that has the power stir the human soul.

dad

It just dawned on me.

What?

The best answer for a frequent question i get that always seems so ambiguous.

Q. What are you doing here?

A. Helping your CEO understand how a world-class organization got that way.

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When did you come of age?

Disney theme park app
Not since Covid, four years ago, could you simply show up whenever you wanted and get in, guaranteed. Feels good to be back, even if it’s only sporadic for now.

How old were you when you discovered what makes you come alive?

dad

i “came of age” in my early 30’s when we moved into our second home, our current home.

Was probably another decade before it hit me though.

It eventually became a BFO (blinding flash of the obvious), i love everything about our home.

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