Asking the wrong question

Walt Disney quote
Walt saw the future so vividly that after he died his team knew where Walt wanted to go.

Dear CEO, your biggest blindspot….

In thinking more about it, totally confounded why you can’t (won’t?) answer the singularly most important question, “What is your vision?

Could it be the wrong question for you?

No, not in a million years.

Note: Spent 30 years deconstructing and then reconstructing Disney’s world-class, time-tested Organizational Vibrancy DNA, into brilliantly simple and easily transferable insights.

The first, and most important, of the 19 architectural blueprints is Vision.

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Lead or be?

Disney Customer Service Keynote speaker name tag
Who carries a Disney name tag to Glacier National Park? A crazy person no doubt. Here’s to the crazy ones.

Do you want to lead the category or be the category?

Writing five daily, differently-themed blog posts for 13 years and counting, makes you a category of one.

Then you add no commenting, no social sharing, no email collection, no sales funnel.

You don’t promote your blog, and never have, even when you deliver Disney Customer Service Keynote Speeches.

You truly are a rare bird.

Rock on and never let your memories be bigger than your dreams.

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Balance your audacity

If your enrollment is down, look in the mirror.

When i first started at Disney Institute, the Director shared invaluable advice,  “Jeff, if you look out at your audience and they looked bored, you’re boring them.”

Leaders who are struggling, read between the lines.

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Expect the unexpected

Disney College program Cast Member
L-R: me, Ben Balentine. Caught Ben as he was visiting Magic Kingdom before his final College Program shift. He’s a Disney Custodial Cast Member at Disney’s Hollywood Studios. All College Program Cast Members last day was Sunday March 15 (when the photo was taken).
Hawaiian light fixture at Disney
Hawaiian light fixture at Disney’s Polynesian Resort.
1960 Hawaiian Music album
1960 Hawaiian Music album on display at Disney’s Polynesian Village Resort Hotel. Listened to it on iTunes yesterday.
Disney's Castaway Cowboy poster
Disney’s Castaway Cowboy poster on display at Disney’s Polynesian.
Walt and Lillian Disney
Walt and Lillian Disney apparently in Hawaii.
Stitch
Postcard in “The Poly’s” merchandise shop.
Lilo and Stitch
Co-branding often makes perfect sense.
Hawaiian wood carvings
Authenticity (front image) is critical for every Disney story. Fun (left, rear image) is too.

Expect the unexpected?

Where did your attitude take you on that question?

Bad things?

Great things?

Congrats.

Great things will come from Covid-19.

Wakeup calls should never be wasted.

Wakeup calls are a gift.

Wakeup calls are also generally inconvenient in their arrival.

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What if you started writing?

Never lose your ability and desire to wonder (and wander). Greetings from the Oregon coast.

What if you started writing?

Not knowing how to begin is not a reason to hold onto.

Figure it out.

You’re in charge.

You already know how helpful daily writing is.

Go.

Be amazed and be amazing.

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