Personal – Page 11 – Disney Brand Loyalty Keynote Speaker

Happy Birthday You Tube

You Tube. You love to watch it.

You Tube videos are funny, serious, wacky, sexy, vulgar, informative, personal, revealing, captivating.

Google bought You Tube for $1.65 Billion.

This, in less than five years.

Crazy idea, that You Tube thing, all those five years ago.

There will be another crazy thing. One after the other. The really crazy thing is that it can now come from anyone, anywhere.

Will your idea be the next viral Internet phenomenon? Maybe that’s too big.

Will your idea be the next big thing in your department, your division, your organization, your industry?

Wouldn’t challenge you if I didn’t believe I could do it myself. Seriously.

Lead or follow. Remember?

A Brand Called You

Icons Help Shape A Brand

Who needs me to draw a map?

No seriously, I hope you’re getting this. Hey, everyone is busy. You don’t think I know that? Come on, I get it.

But do others get it? There is never going to be a time when you will have time. It hurts to hear this, doesn’t it?

So now is the time. And this is the place for simple, daily reflections on excellence. It has to be a daily habit, or it will never be excellent.

You can be very good, without a daily habit, but not excellent.

My whole point last week, spontaneously inspired by a ten-minute walk outside that Dallas hotel, was what Tom Peters calls: “A Brand Called You”. Others call it , “Me Inc”.

Don’t believe me? Then click here to read an August 2007 Fast Company article from Tom Peters entitled, A Brand Called You.

They Really Want to Be Excellent

Last one, for now. And I have to tell you, They must really want to be excellent.

Hope you’ve enjoyed this insightful journey into the relative simplicity for having a world-class corporate culture. It works for personal branding too.

How does a one-take-You tube video, five-a-day blogger know? If I have to explain it to you, you won’t understand.

Be well and do GREAT work!

Leader Top Priorities?

Leadership priorities. Probably the single most important “to do” on a great leader’s list. Right?

At the top for me is a compelling vision. Then acting with integrity. And thirdly, building trust.

But these aren’t the priorities I’m talking about.

I’m referring to personal, moral priorities.

A few months ago, I had the privilege to hear a Fortune 100 President give a speech. To my surprise he listed his as:

Faith
Family
Career

Didn’t see that one coming. Career was third. As a Fortune 100 President. Wow.

Live authentically, serve humbly, live to make other’s dreams come true.

jungle jeff And Fear

jungle jeff and fear are familiar with each other. Have been for a long time. Fear is all around us, isn’t it?

“Good men have the fewest fears”. — Christian Nestell Bovee

A few years ago it hit me, I have the Faith of Mount Everest – you know, the tallest peak on earth.

And then it struck, I have the fear of K2 – the second tallest peak on earth, a fact most don’t know.

They are roughly 800 feet different in height. A relatively trivial amount, but enough for Mount Everest to triumph.

In the quest to be a great leader, if we’re successful, we also become a good person. Good enough to keep most of our fears at bay. Some refer to it as courage.