Tag: Michael

Make hundreds of dollars an hour in your underwear?

Disney Institute Customer Service Speakers
Disney Institute social media post.

Would earning $600 a week on a hypothetical 20-hour workweek appeal to you? That’s $30/hour, working on your own terms.

Michael, let’s review the key points from last night’s swimming pool conversation:

  • A $30/hour wage is realistic. And could easily double or triple, or more.
  • You’d work when you wanted, wherever you wanted.
  • You’d work as much or as little as you wanted.
  • You’d get paid after i get paid.
  • You don’t need to sell anything.

You only need to find business professionals who believe in three things:

  1. Believe Disney’s business model could work Magic for their organization
  2. They are passionate about continual improvement.
  3. They have a financial capacity to pay for world-class benchmarking.

 

Once you established your most effective and efficient structure and process, you could conceivably work four hours a week and make hundreds of dollars per hour, in your underwear, if you wanted.

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This website is about our WORK. To ponder today’s post about our HQ, click here.

 

Handling someone looking for some dirt

Disney Executive Consulting
Circa 2005, near the time of the story below.

 

Three days ago, in a blast from the past, a friend offered this email excerpt from nearly a decade ago, from a Disney Institute (DI) engagement i led. While i do not recall the situation, Craig did. The crazy thing though, it sounds legit:

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About 5 or 6 years ago, when you came to Columbus with DI.
I was standing with you, after it was over, at the front of the room, when a guy came up and started rattling off things he had heard about Michael Eisner. I remember it distinctly, because it was a lot of material that was in a 2006 book, Disneywar. (I had recently finished reading it, too.) It was clear he was trying to get validation to some dirt he had in mind.
You handled it flawlessly. I don’t remember specifics. But it was to the effect that Michael had done a lot of good for the company.
I do remember that after that, you told me that you had spent some time with Mr Eisner and that he is a good guy. You told me you’d tell me about it someday. 🙂
I believe you had said you were his specific handler, when he was in town. I couldn’t tell if this was during your Resort Operations days or during your DI days.
Either way, I look forward to hearing about it. Eisner may have had a rocky end with the company. But, he did some incredible things, righted the ship and set the company up with a great base to build on for the 21st century.
OK, done geeking out.
🙂

craig

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Consistency is the hallmark of a reputation.

By the way, what prompted Craig’s email was this post, also from three days ago.

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