Creativity and vision

Disney Traditions Instructors
One of the highest frontline Cast Member designations is a one-year Cross-U opportunity at Disney University, teaching the Disney Traditions class to newly hired employees (Cast Members). From hundreds, the shy, small-town boy from Spring Grove, PA is standing far left.

Creativity isn’t important, until it suddenly is.

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Vision isn’t important, until it suddenly is.

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Never get bored with the basics.

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First rule of HQ

disney university hallway
The long shot.
disney brands display
The close up.

First rule of HQ.

Everything is your responsibility.

Second rule, everything is your fault.

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Building a Disney company

Disney speaker jeff noel's home office
Disney home office. The paperwork of life gets done here.
Baltimore hotel room view
The college campus is 200 meters away on the other side of the parking garage.
Baltimore winter sunrise
Nice way to start today.

It’s a cold (26) Baltimore morning on the hotel’s 10th floor. The sunrise view is beautiful from our large window.

One of the amazing benefits of being over-focused has been on the intentionality behind me designing a business model that allows working from anywhere to be as easy as working from home.

You can observe a lot by watching.

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Leadership Commitment challenges

to do list for graphic design
These are graphic design to-do’s.

Leadership commitment challenges has a different context here than it does at Lane8.org (today). 

The context here is how you lead after the honeymoon effect wears off. There’s always excitement and high hopes when things are new and shiny. We easily rise to the occasion; whether it’s a promotion, a new initiative being rolled out, a corporate merger that is supposed to enhance both cultures into a better, and unified, one.

But eventually and predictably, things are harder and take longer than estimated.

When we grow weary, and the people we lead grow weary, how do we continue to show up with a Day One enthusiasm?

Of course it’s challenging to sustain Day One energy, focus, creativity, and excitement over the long haul (a lifetime?).

Yet this is the essence of great leadership.

Unwavering belief.

And the ability to excite, inspire, and motivate others as if it’s Day One, every day.

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Be mindful that knowing and doing are opposites

the new mindfulness
What does this mean – the new mindfulness? Photo: yesterday at the grocery checkout lane.

 

strategy vs execution
Theory looks super amazing on paper. Yesterday on Twitter.

 

 

strategy vs execution
What you know is meaningless if you don’t create world-class habits from your knowledge.

 

 

To know is to do. To know and not do is to not yet know.

 

Brilliant strategy is worthless without the personal wherewithal to create, improve, and sustain transformational change.

 

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