Decisions – Page 3 – Disney Brand Loyalty Keynote Speaker

Making tough business decisions should be easy

Birthday candles — Yesterday’s birthday celebrations for 94 and 81 year olds, my mother-in-law’s neighbors.

Making tough business decisions should be easy.

Why?

Because making tough decisions never goes away.

To thrive in this harsh reality, as well as build, maintain, and enhance your brand, organizational blueprints are mission critical. Cultural architecture is another way of saying organizational blueprints.

Yesterday (Friday) a tough answer came in from an easy decision i made Monday. The special price offer from a (Lee Cockerell) referal came with ~~structure~~ conditions.

A five day ~~deadline~~ opportunity to commit
Upfront payment in full

The client declined.

Losing business on cost is the price that’s paid to build a reputation, externally and maybe more importantly, internally.

Do what you say you’re going to do.

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Even if we choose not to decide, we still have made a choice

One side of double sided business card. The black edges are not part of the card.

Feeling like a million bucks comes from making decisions. However, decisions do not guarantee success.

Decisions only guarantee learning.

Learning is worth the investment.

Feeling amazing knowing that the first set of official business cards are on the way.

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As a leader, we must make decisions not everyone agrees on

Breakfast at Cracker Barrel — Frosted mugs for the milk.

Breakfast platter — Plates of food falling off the table.

Coliseum of Comics YuGiOh Tournament — Neither of us knew they’d be closed. Makes sense though.

As a leader, we must make decisions not everyone agrees on. Yes, we could have gone back and delivered more boxes of food. Would could have made return trips for hours.

The van put it to a vote. As the tie breaker it was easy because:

The first ministry starts at home.

Don’t abandon your Family for work to be done. There’s a time and a place. Try to balance them.

There is a standing Sunday commitment to attend our Son’s tournament.

Not everyone has the same priorities. Not everyone has conviction. Not everyone has balance.

Do the best you can. Forgive yourself. Move forward.

Life is not a popularity contest.

But if it was, you’d want your Family to be your biggest fans.

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The paradox of creativity

Disney Leadership Keynote Speakers — Second round of rough drafts completed yesterday.

If fear is our enemy to being creative. Then creativity is the antidote for fear.

Nothing slays fear like action.

Failure is progress.

Inaction is not progress.

It really is this simple.

Just passed 100 days since retiring from Disney and things are starting to gel. They’re gelling because big decisions are being made.

Fear fades away like a distant memory.

Doing business differently. — Paying in advance and double her going rate.

Paying in advance and double her fee seems as natural as breathing. Fear, not lack of creativity, keeps this from being a common business practice.

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The joy of being the boss

(photo: A surprise, and astonishingly brave and inspiring speech just three days before Christmas: Calling out the hypocrisy on the vatican Cardinals.)

First Christmas in 30 years where there are no worries about getting time off to spend with Family.

The responsibility of being self-employed hasn’t fully sunk in.

But the joy of being the boss has.

You don’t realize the weight (of corporate tradition) until it’s gone.

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