Are we born to excel?

Disney Keynote Speakers
Grinnell Glacier Overlook 2016 with Dave Weir.

 

Are we born to excel?

Or are we born to get a job, any job, and live a life that never dreams we can rise above the paycheck-to-paycheck life?

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Leadership accountability works best with perfect clarity

Mickey and Minnie Mouse on Parade float
What the public focuses on – the 3-O’clock Parade.

 

Disney World peak attendance
What the organization focuses on – how to keep the Magic alive after the Parade is over.

 

What the Senior Executive saw as being rigid and inflexible, i saw as clarity.

Funny how the same thing can be seen paradoxically opposed.

One of the four world-class leadership basics is accountability.

Accountability works best with perfect clarity.

Less than perfect clarity brings less than perfect results.

Either way, a culture is established and practiced daily based on the way expectations are determined, communicated, and enforced.

 

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The harsh reality for people who dislike demanding bosses

Disneyland book
Walt Disney had his moments like every leader does. He wasn’t always happy with the way things were going.

 

There’s a harsh reality for people who dislike demanding bosses. The demanding boss doesn’t like being demanding. If accountability is clear, then results should follow. When results don’t follow the boss has to do something to ensure the results happen.

That plan b that the boss has to go to is often perceived as demanding.

Now imagine if you delivered exactly what you and the boss agreed on.

There’d be praise instead of pressure.

Tell me again who’s fault that is.

 

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Stop putting pressure on yourself to do too much too soon

Gloria Steinem quote about truth
Truth, it hurts and it liberates.

 

Stop putting pressure on yourself to do too much too soon.

Sure, you promised junglejeff.com goes live tomorrow, July 4th. And this is the third deadline you have created: June 8 your birthday, and June 25 your anniversary have come and gone. Now, July 4th.

Why?

Because you didn’t feel it represented your best foot forward. It is, after all, a Disney Keynote Speaker website.

We all struggle with feeling confident enough to launch without perfection.

 

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This website is about our career health. To leave this site to read today’s post on my home health website, click here.

 

On April Fool’s Day 2009, jeff noel began writing five daily, differently-themed blogs (on five different sites). It was to be a 100-day self-imposed “writer’s bootcamp”, in preparation for writing his first book. He hasn’t missed a single day since.

 

Really hoping to be blown away

Sanibel shelling
Doing a 180 from the setting sun.

 

Sanibel beach at dusk
The sunset isn’t the only show.

 

Really hoping to be blown away.

Spending a lot of money and placing a ton of trust in someone i’ve never directly worked with before.

How do you feel certain the person you’ve contracted is not squandering their time, effort, and attention on your project?

You don’t.

Well, you find out when the project is done.

And then, if you’re blown away, then you’ll know.

And if you aren’t blown away…

 

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This website is about our career health. To leave this site to read today’s post on my home health website, click here.

 

On April Fool’s Day 2009, jeff noel began writing five daily, differently-themed blogs (on five different sites). It was to be a 100-day self-imposed “writer’s bootcamp”, in preparation for writing his first book. He hasn’t missed a single day since.