Book – Page 24 – Disney Creativity and Innovation Keynote Speaker

Creativity and Innovation Next Steps activity

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Creativity and Innovation Next Steps activity

Strike while the iron is hot. Iron is easily malleable when hot, and impossible to shape when not.

Now (yes, right now) is the time to write down some important, top-of-mind creativity and innovation thoughts.

Make a few lists and don’t fuss over minute details – this is high-level, very rough-draft thinking. Have fun, and don’t over-analyze. This should be quick:

Who (whom should you involve):

What (what needs to be done):

Where (where will the work occur):

When (when will the work happen):

How (how will the work be accomplished):

Why (why is this important; what’s to be gained by doing it, what’s to be lost by doing nothing):

How’d that feel?

Have you perceived what’s happened in the past few minutes?

You’ve just started planting, on paper, the seeds of intentional creativity and innovation behavior that will facilitate the slow and steady path forward to creativity and innovation transformation.

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Who better than you?

Disney creativity and innovation author Jeff Noel writing on iPhone — Do you work with a cast of characters? We all do, right? A Disney Cruise Ship is a relaxing place to write a Disney creativity and innovation book.

Who better than you?

From the creativity and innovation activity you just completed, you should be somewhere on the spectrum between overjoyed with future possibility or overwhelmed with hopelessness.

The next best step for your current state is action.

Action will harness your joy for possibility and it will also mitigate your feelings of hopelessness by giving you the initial small steps required to gain a feeling of progress and hope.

Who better than you to have this remarkable creativity and innovation opportunity?

Pause for a moment before reading the next sentence and contemplate and answer the question above: “Who better than you?”

How did your answer resonate?

Okay, let’s continue with another question.

How did it feel to write and/or draw your creativity and innovation thoughts on paper?

Was it easy?

Why?

Was it hard?

Why?

Do you feel more optimistic or less optimistic from the exercise?

Regardless of your answer, what are your next creativity and innovation culture steps?

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Disney Creativity and Innovation activity

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Disney Creativity and Innovation activity

We are going to pause for a few minutes and give you an opportunity to reflect on what you’ve read from “It’s A Trap” (page __) to here.

In the space below, write (or draw) words, phrases, questions, answers. Remember, the reason you’re doing this is to capture your key thoughts as we build your creativity and innovation assessment of your current state, visualize a bright future for yourself and your organization, and start outlining your creativity and innovation next steps agenda.

Have fun, dream big, burn your ships…

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When creativity and innovation transformation happens

Disney business author Jeff Noel writing in Disney Cruise Ship stateroom — Writing in our Stateroom.

When creativity and innovation transformation happens

Wouldn’t it be great if positive creativity and innovation change just fell from Heaven?

But it doesn’t.

So ask yourself why you go to work each day. What’s the purpose? What do you contribute?

Is not your purpose to drive change, to make things better?

To make today a little, even if it’s imperceptible to most, better than yesterday.

To make this year better than last year?

To make your second decade better than your first?

Creativity and innovation transformation won’t just come to you. It won’t happen on your week-long vacation to the beach.

It won’t happen when you wake up in the morning.

No.

So why do you show up for work?

How do you find joy (and motivation) when you and your organization are stuck?

This is going to sound crazy but creativity and innovation transformation happens when you need it to happen; the caveat is you’ve got to be willing to pay for it.

When you’ve run out of options you are close to a breakthrough. You are literally at the proverbial fork in the road.

Many fail to turn the corner because they couldn’t convincingly answer the previous questions about their purpose for showing up every day.

One direction leads to misery and frustration, the other to your first of many lucky creativity and innovation breaks.

Looking back, you’ll wonder why you didn’t commit sooner.

Remember, creativity and innovation growth is a long-term, never-ending process. Be thankful for all the years you and your organization struggled. Your struggle deserves the credit for bringing you to where you are now.

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Any fool can dream

Disney business author Jeff Noel's hand while writing on an iPhone — Notes from 1982 College Program experience.

Any fool can dream

Dreams are great.

But creativity and innovation dreams without a plan and action are worthless.

Hope is a great strategy, but it’s a poor tactic.

Action is the antidote for being dissatisfied.

But there’s never enough time is there?

This is a great time to have a mantra along the lines of, burn the ships.

It’s also foolish to metaphorically put your life on the line.

Or is it?

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