No one wants to hear this

iAqualink pool wifi device
Yesterday. The digital infrastructure to run my swimming pool from an iPhone.

 

No one wants to do the deep thinking and have the heavy discussions about building or maintaining an infrastructure.

Why?

Because it’s too much work, especially the implementation and change (transformation) part.

So we wait and do nothing – the twin siblings of diseased organizational culture.

Think for a moment about trying to change a culture without the proper infrastructure.

Insight: Creating infrastructure is what working at Disney has polished me to do better than anyone in this space. i know the secret formulas. And what works and doesn’t work in implementing them.

How?

From working inside Disney for 30+ years, including the final 15 years at Disney Institute working with over 2,000 clients (and one-million+ people), including many of the world’s most famous brands.

#truth

 

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Seven obvious warning signs of a crumbling culture

Apple Watch health app
Two days ago…a 25 mile roundtrip bike ride to use the gym.

 

Seven obvious warning signs of a crumbling culture:

  1. High turnover/low moral
  2. Lack of consistency
  3. Woe-is-us mentality
  4. Short term thinking
  5. Silos
  6. Survival mode
  7. Cynicism

These seven lead to the river of leadership mistrust.

If Disney ran your business they’d attack this – to protect your culture at any cost.

Most organizations, and you know this for a fact, have no clue where to begin.

 

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Intentionally use phrases, words, and icons to create your culture

Disney University Wall
Photo from Facebook.

 

One of the most important things Disney does to preserve and enhance it’s corporate culture is to intentionally use phrases, words, and icons to create mental images. The daily, over managed repetition creates a powerful emotional connection with Cast Members.

The culture becomes something worth defending.

Imagine your culture being like that.

Can you?

i can.

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Is profit the reward or the goal?

Sanibel Island gift shop sign
Never saw a Sanibel Island gift shop sign quite like this one.

 

Sanibel Island gift shop item
Will senior management learn to cup possibility in their hands?

 

The senior management team met yesterday morning to present their compelling recommendations to their Board.

One of those recommendations is to hire me to help them:

  • Transform their culture
  • Move from good to great
  • Develop competitive immunity
  • Create a culture by design from a culture by default
  • Build something every employee wants to protect

At this point it is out of my hands, like an injured athlete with timing not in her favor, and so i wait.

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