Disney’s Single Biggest Continuous Improvement Secret Revealed

Disney over-focuses on the same things others under-focus on or ignore

Disney Creativity and Innovation banks on being intentional where others are unintentional.

This is the key to Disney’s long-term success.

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The Four World Class Creativity and Innovation Basics, Disney Style

The four creativity and innovation basics will be revealed in the book.

For now, here are some thought-starters:

Never get bored with the basics.

Focus and discipline.

Excellence.

Exceeding expectations.

All day.

Every day.

Never be satisfied.

The road to excellence has no finish line.

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If Creativity and Innovation, Disney Style, doesn’t make perfect sense, nothing i say will matter

When you believe in something all the way, no convincing is necessary. When you don’t, no amount of convincing will be enough.

If what Disney Creativity and Innovation does, how we do it, and why we do it doesn’t make perfect sense, no amount of my content will ever be enough to convince you.

The good news?

It’s not worth it for either of us to convince the other of anything different.

There’s irrefutable evidence in the form of historical Customer and Employee loyalty that needs no defense.

That said, may you and your business endeavors bring you the personal vibrancy and organizational vibrancy every great leader dreams of.

Ps. In the off chance, you’re feeling compelled to take a risk, the worst that will happen is you’ll have lost an hour of your life to “what might have been.”

An hour.

Two 30-minute “The Office” reruns. Almost makes the chance seem worth it, no?

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The Why of Disney Creativity and Innovation

Why does Disney focus on continuously improving it’s products and expanding it’s offerings?

Here’s how easy the answer is; if you could only pick one of these three, which would you pick?

1. Stay with the industry pack.
2. Lead the category.
3. Become the category.

Sometimes, the answer is that obvious.

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Disney Creativity and Innovation Beliefs

At Disney, we do our best work when we have a clearly defined box and then think “inside-the-box.”

We think in terms of expanding our box rather than calling it thinking “outside-the-box”.

We fundamentally believe everyone is creative.

We must separate our personal identity from our idea.

Brainstorming is focused on idea quantity, not quality.

Great ideas can, and should, come from anywhere.

Invite people outside your industry to your brainstorming meetings.

Creativity, by itself, is useless.

Creativity is the generation of useful ideas in any domain.

Innovation is the implementation of a useful idea.

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