Tag: Priorities

The beauty in writing and talking about your priorities

Wells Fargo mistakes
Yes, please, at my convenience, and from my phone. (but your limitations won’t allow me to.)

 

Wells Fargo mistakes
Yes, please. (but instead, it requires about an hour to drive to and from your closest branch to do what the app won’t permit)

 

The podcast i did two days ago was only the fourth ever, and the first time with someone other than Jody Maberry.

It was also the first, by design, where i didn’t talk specifically about Disney.

What i’m reflecting on right now is how long today’s posts are and how i don’t want to do that here or at the next blog.

Today’s insight?

Writing and talking about what’s important to you really forces you to become clear – and clarity is power.

 

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You have one job – maintain or enhance?

Disney Keynote Speaker
Your job isn’t to maintain, your job as a leader is to make things better.

 

 

This list is courtesy of Seth Godin.

  • Add energy to every conversation
  • Ask why
  • Find obsolete things on your task list and remove them
  • Treat customers better than they expect
  • Offer to help co-workers before they ask
  • Feed the plants
  • Leave things more organized than you found them
  • Invent a moment of silliness
  • Highlight good work from your peers
  • Find other great employees to join the team
  • Cut costs
  • Help invent a new product or service that people really want
  • Get smarter at your job through training or books
  • Encourage curiosity
  • Surface and highlight difficult decisions
  • Figure out what didn’t work
  • Organize the bookshelf
  • Start a club
  • Tell a joke at no one’s expense
  • Smile a lot.

 

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He’s crazy which is perfect

Disney Keynote Speakers
Grinnell Glacier Overlook 2016 with Dave Weir. Hope he can make it back in 2018.

 

Hoping to return to Glacier National Park – my CEO wants me to make it my top Summer 2018 priority.

He says it’s unofficially my final Summer on our planet.

He’s crazy.

Which is perfect.

The time to plan for our priorities is before we need to.

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Is this the greatest leadership challenge?

Airport overflow parking at sunrise
Yesterday, like the day before that, and again this morning, began the same. Darkness turns to dawn. Dawn turns to sunrise. The sun moves across the sky. Etc.

 

Letting go of things that don’t matter may be the greatest leadership challenge we ever face.

Things.

That.

Don’t.

Matter.

They pile up and overwhelm us.

 

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Horse, Jockey, Trainer, Owner

Red Tail Hawk in Orlando
Yesterday while running. Chatted and wished this bird of prey the best. Dude is looking into my eyes.

 

Horse, Jockey, Trainer, Owner.

Which is most important?

Final answer?

Ok.

Take two…

Same question, “Who’s most important?”, but this time it’s race day, say the Kentucky Derby.

Same answer?

Why or why not?

What does this mean to leadership?

 

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On April Fool’s Day 2009, jeff noel began writing five daily, differently-themed blogs (on five different sites). It was to be a 100-day self-imposed “writer’s bootcamp”, in preparation for writing his first book. He hasn’t missed a single day since.