Disney Brand Loyalty Keynote Speaker
Five daily blogs about life's 5 big choices on five different sites.
Normal versus average.
Normal is not measurable.
The average – or the mean – is measurable.
Big difference.
One is indisputable.
One completely depends on biased opinion.
Dear Son, never forget our discussion about normal yesterday.
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(photo: Yesterday before sunrise. Coming home from dropping Cheryl off at airport. The truck’s tagline is inspiring.)
Probable tag line for jeffnoel.com?
Challenging the status quo. Almost always at the chagrin of authority.
It would be easier, of course, to simply accept the critical mass (momentum) of the herd – aka status quo.
The way we’ve always done things.
Predictable.
Safe.
Go with the flow.
Nothing wrong with these things.
Unless you talk all the time about innovation.
Then you sort of suck if you don’t actually challenge everything.
Taking risks is risky. So is playing it safe.
But it just doesn’t feel right.
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(photo: Facebook status update screen shot… something about brevity that turns us on… inspires us.)
Had wanted to write a shorter performance appraisal, but just didn’t have the time.
Anyone can go on and on about how great they are.
Most do, actually.
Human nature.
Conditioning.
Past practice.
Acceptable practice.
Expected practice?
It used to be expected that a black person would give up their seat on a bus so a white person could have the seat instead.
Thank goodness for the people who saw it differently and challenged the expected practice.
But woe to the solitary misfit at the office.
The one using performance appraisal brevity to shine a spotlight.
It could be a remarkable breakthrough.
One creating a collective, societal sigh of relief.
Or, it could fail, landing the perpetrator in trouble (again) with the reputation they have with their leaders for “creating waves”.
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Overcoming Addiction.
Disney has taught me to analyze my leadership values. And more than that, to analyze my leadership behaviors.
Funny thing is, my values and my behaviors were contradictory.
The other funny thing, I was clueless. Seriously clueless. The origin of the phrase blind spot comes from the fact that everyone can see it but one person – they have a blind spot.
Plus, everyone else is chicken to say anything, because confrontation is uncomfortable, and many times, ugly.
Who wants that? Who needs that? Not me. Not you. No one is lining up for that kind of stress.
So I confronted myself. It was not ugly, but is was uncomfortable. And then it was impossible. I had suspected it for years, but only casually, because the truth would mean I had dramatic life-altering changes to make.
I’ll tell you more tomorrow, or maybe later this week. We’ll see. For now though, carpe diem, jungle jeff 🙂