Disney Brand Loyalty Keynote Speaker
Five daily blogs about life's 5 big choices on five different sites.
Plagued by our own potential.
If we could slay our fear and doubt, we’d literally astonish ourselves.
This applies to work, of course.
And it also applies to something we no longer think about…our health.
For the past 48 hours, being with my ‘”brothers”, i can’t help but feel compelled to think about how we will age, if given the privilege, for the next 10, 20, or 30+ years.
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Starve your doubts.
Feed your dreams.
Simple.
Simple doesn’t mean easy, but it does mean simple.
At work.
At home.
Here, there, everywhere.
All day.
Everyday.
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As success becomes imminent, a new fear is born. The fear of looking arrogant. A confident entrepreneurial startup founder must exude confidence.
Exude.
That’s pretty intense. And to some, intimidating. It reminds people of their decaying dreams.
It’s time to follow the fatherly advice i have consistently shared with our 14-year old.
Why focus on the ones who will say jealous things? And we all know how those behind-someone’s-back conversations go, because we’ve all been jealous, so it’s no secret.
It’s the difficult path that others laugh at.
Not because it’s difficult, but because it’s lonely.
And scary.
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If you could only pick from two available vendors, which would you pick?
No brainer?
Or does the fear of being remarkable default you to conformity?
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Notes from the final Disney Performance appraisal in 2014. These are word-for-word (copied and pasted here without editing). They were typed on an iPhone sitting across the desk from the leader during the meeting. Kinda like shorthand because we were talking one-on-one:
Zealot.
Teachable moment is every moment. Wears people out.
Willingly go to extremes… All the time.
Masters at their game… Leadership team.
The fourth line was a reference that i should study and emulate the experts, our departmental leadership team. The same group of experts that the team collectively voted as ineffective as the top issue on the employee survey.
Talk about a blind spot.
It is tiring.
On both sides no doubt.
But so is this, the DNA of Walt Disney Operations:
Deliver an excellent experience to every single Guest, every single time, every single day.
No operational leader ever says, “Anything less than 100% is acceptable today.”
Shifting gears…society’s focus on Easter pales in comparison to Christmas. From this it would be safe to assume Christmas is more important.
Is it?
Case in point, today, Christmas finally makes sense.
Happy Easter 2015.
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