Tag: Paradox

The paradox of creativity

Disney Leadership Keynote Speakers
Second round of rough drafts completed yesterday.

 

If fear is our enemy to being creative. Then creativity is the antidote for fear.

Nothing slays fear like action.

Failure is progress.

Inaction is not progress.

It really is this simple.

Just passed 100 days since retiring from Disney and things are starting to gel. They’re gelling because big decisions are being made.

Fear fades away like a distant memory.

 

Doing business differently.
Paying in advance and double her going rate.

 

Paying in advance and double her fee seems as natural as breathing. Fear, not lack of creativity, keeps this from being a common business practice.

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Not too many humans that don’t need both

Mid Life Celebration book
The most important messages jeff noel has ever written.

 

This may be hard to believe, but it doesn’t need to be.

The book, Mid life Celebration, has changed people’s lives. It’s short, pithy and can either be a tender loving hug, or a kick in the as$. Not too many humans that don’t need both. The first few pages are free on Amazon. Not trying to sell you a book.

It was written as a life guide for a little boy in case something bad ever happened to his dad. Can’t get more direct nor more lovingly authentic than that.

Intentionally left out the link to Amazon. You get why, right?

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Are we called to be signs of contradiction?

Dynamic Catholic booth in Narthex.
Yesterday at Church.

 

All are entitled to be dynamic in life, few grant themselves permission.

This post starts off spiritually but quickly addresses the business leadership application.

Pastor Ennis who recently celebrated 50 years as a Priest, caught many of us off guard yesterday at Mass. He said:

 “We are called to be signs of contradiction.”

To be a thought-provoking apostle.

Immediately thought of the business leader’s job.

To be a though-provoking leader.

To rattle the cage of everyone she leads.

Because if employees keep thinking the same way they always do and expect consistent improvements, or even a breakthrough, then we don’t need that leader.

We don’t need that leader because that leader isn’t leading.

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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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