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Disney, as in the man Walt Disney, has taught me to experiment with every new and innovative way to strive for perfection. And it was Vince Lombardi, legendary head coach for the Green Bay Packers, that said, “In chasing perfection, we will catch excellence”.

My son, as much as I try to teach and inspire him, actually teaches and inspires me. Who would have thought?

How? Well, for starters, he looks at technology like you and I breathe the air – casually, effortlessly, and fearlessly.

Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, Blogs, Websites, GoDaddy, WordPress, Skype, Mobile Me, iPhone,iPhone apps, IM, You Tube, Google analytics, etc.

Our nine year old son is familiar with them all. I know. I’m his teacher.

He thinks I make technology look effortless. if he only knew how hard I worked.

Bet Walt Disney felt the same way. Carpe diem, jungle jeff 🙂

Without Passion

“Without passion, a person gambles with their future”. — jeff noel

This morning as I checked Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn, it hit me. There’s a person who Tweets about cooking. “Miss D”, I’ll call her, has a passion that is so clearly visible that I had to tell her it inspires me.

It doesn’t inspire me to cook.

Then what?

It inspires me to be inspired – with big dreams.

Yesterday, I purchased a Macbook for our son’s ninth birthday this week. He doesn’t know he’s getting it. In fact he won’t be expecting it because he knows how expensive they are.

But I’ve been planting seeds. “You should think of ways you can make money”.

So tell me, when is it too early to challenge a child to be thinking about earning money? How crazy is it to encourage children to look at ways other than cutting grass, raking leaves, or doing chores?

Disney’s best leaders are the ones who have passion so clear and so deep, that their team believes anything is possible.

At home, it’s the same way for me. “I believe if your goal isn’t impossible, you’re not reaching high enough”. — jeff noel Carpe diem! 🙂

Against All Odds

Yesterday….(Not the Beatles).

Happy Birthday (yesterday) to Disneyland!

Walt Disney said:

“I knew if this business was ever to get anywhere, if this business was ever to grow, it could never do it by having to answer to someone unsympathetic to it’s possibilities, by having to answer to someone with only one thought or interest, namely profits. For my idea of how to make profits has differed greatly from those who generally control businesses such as ours. I have a blind faith in the policy that quality, tempered with good judgement and showmanship, will win out against all odds”.

If Walt Disney could have envisioned how successful his business philosophy would ultimately become and how far it would take The Walt Disney Company, maybe he would have found a way to quit smoking.

Crazy, yes. Impossible, no.

Walt Disney never used the word, “Impossible”!

Carpe diem, jungle jeff 🙂

What would Walt Disney do?

Walt Disney always challenged his organization to look into every new and innovative way to entertain his Guests. And if the way was too slow or too common, he’d invent a new way. His life blazed a trail of innovative entertainment milestones.

I recently watched a senior executive start a meeting with ten minutes of critical data and an urgent challenge for his executive team.

His entire PowerPoint presentation, in fact his entire speech, was so incredibly timely, I couldn’t believe my ears. Just minutes before the group started arriving, I was leading a discussion with others nearby, and painting a picture of how businesses could capitalize on new and evolving social networking applications.

“Can you imagine if everyone in Sales had their own blogs, writing and sharing imporant highlights, trends, offers, etc”?

“Can you imagine operations, blogging about their travels and the difference they are making for customers around the globe”?

“Can you imagine having YouTube videos flying across the globe, some having a million+ views”?

“Can you imagine being able to deliver a keynote speech for hundreds and offering every single one of them your virtual business card?

Well guess what?

He made it perfectly clear that he’d like his team assembled there to immediately begin looking into Social Media and Social Networking. Wow!

Why?

Because he said he believes their competitors are planning their strategy around it, and they should be too. Plus, he said their customers are using it more and more, and it has unlimited potential to create better relationships with them. Who doesn’t want that?

Of course, there was a healthy dose of “use your professional judgement because you’re representing their Company”. Isn’t that what we already do? Use our good judgement? Of course.

This was a no-brainer, as some people say. Totally!

In the 1930’s, Walt Disney launched the production of Snow White & the Seven Dwarfs movie. This time period was called the “Great Depression”, in America.

We are now, once again, in another unprecedented “Great Depression”.

I’m having Deja Vu.

This blog you’re reading? It’s my “Snow White & the Seven Dwarfs”. Ya with me? Are you getting the point?

If not now, when? If not you, who? Carpe diem, jeff noel 🙂

Think of Social Media this way?

Think of social media this way:

My Space is your bedroom.

Facebook is your living room.

LinkedIn is your office.