Tag: Leaders

Great Disney leaders are visionary

Disney Leadership conference speakers
Visionary leaders see the same things everyone else sees, but they intuitively see it differently.

 

Great Disney leaders are visionary.

They obsess about communicating a clear, concise, and compelling vision.

A picture of the future that’s better than now, much better.

For many, what the visionary leader sees clearly, others insist on it being an impossibility.

Driven.

Determined.

Inspiring.

 

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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.

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Most (ego-centric) leaders aren’t fond of people like me

Father and Son at Disney World
Most ego-centric leaders have a big heart that competes with career ambitions, fear, and security.

 

Truth be told, most (ego-centric) leaders aren’t fond of me.

This used to bother me.

A lot.

So much so that i tried to change.

And in a way, i did, without selling out.

The creative solution (to keep personal integrity intact) is simply to only ask them questions if they ask for input.

Nothing asked, nothing offered.

Safe.

Meanwhile, writing became the outlet for asking uninvited questions.

Questions every leader should have a ready, instantaneous answer to, but, remarkably, don’t.

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Simple leadership test to tell if you are one

Three photos from a recent run through Walt Disney World. Today’s message follows these pictures.

 

Downtown Disney West Side rear entrance
Downtown Disney West Side, rear entrance.

 

House of Blues at Downtown Disney
House of Blues at Downtown Disney

 

Disney Quest at Downtown Disney
Disney Quest at Downtown Disney

 

Most salaried professionals think they are a leader.

Most are not leaders.

They are managers.

And as such have varying degrees of effectiveness.

Simple leadership test to tell if you are one.

The day-to-day belongs to the managers.

The future belongs to the leaders.

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Everyone’s a critic

Three Mile Island from airplane

 

(photo: Three Mile Island, background. Chapin, foreground.)

March 28, 1978, there was a nuclear meltdown at Three Mile Island.

Major leadership failure.

Leadership is a hot seat few understand, but all are free to criticize.

Nothing and no one is perfect (ok, God is the exception).

But we still need great leaders.

And we all need one to lead our life.

Right?

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