Neglect gets expensive over time

Disney road signs
Disney road signs. Hindsight is generally 20/20…sideview mirror reference.

Organizational culture is like personal health…it gets expensive to restore if you neglect it too long.

You know what the real challenge is?

We get so used to accepting that our organizational health is less than vibrant that we eventually stop being motivated to do anything to change it. And this gradually makes our culture more toxic.

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Don’t make it too hard for your employees

Landscape crew near Disney World
Talented, hard-working crew removed dead palm and then an acre of chain link fence in the backyard.

 

Insight from 30 years inside Disney…

Don’t make it too hard for your employees.

The easier you make expected employee behaviors, the more likely they are to become organizational habit.

 

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A simple and compelling analogy

homemade guacamole
Yesterday for lunch, homemade guacamole.

 

Literally everyone i meet struggles to offer clear, concise, and compelling answers to the most important questions facing their business.

My analogy is simple: business health and personal health are the same.

Business health and personal health are the same things.

How many Americans, including you, make your health a daily focus?

Why?

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No one wants to hear this

iAqualink pool wifi device
Yesterday. The digital infrastructure to run my swimming pool from an iPhone.

 

No one wants to do the deep thinking and have the heavy discussions about building or maintaining an infrastructure.

Why?

Because it’s too much work, especially the implementation and change (transformation) part.

So we wait and do nothing – the twin siblings of diseased organizational culture.

Think for a moment about trying to change a culture without the proper infrastructure.

Insight: Creating infrastructure is what working at Disney has polished me to do better than anyone in this space. i know the secret formulas. And what works and doesn’t work in implementing them.

How?

From working inside Disney for 30+ years, including the final 15 years at Disney Institute working with over 2,000 clients (and one-million+ people), including many of the world’s most famous brands.

#truth

 

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An example of Disney’s world famous intentionality

Sanibel Island Sunset
Calm seas never made a skilled Mariner. Photo from two weeks ago at Sanibel Island.

 

Tomorrow (as this goes live) is the one year anniversary of my last day at Disney.

Today (as this is written, July 30) is the drive to Jacksonville, Florida to compete in the 2015 Masters Track & Field National Championships.

Personal leadership is no different than organizational leadership.

This video link is for posterity. It addresses the notion that the root of organizational change is personal change.

Want a healthier world? Get healthy.

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