clarity – Disney Creativity and Innovation Keynote Speaker

Only you

Bob Iger with Jeff Noel from Disney Institute, circa 2005 — When you are part of a company, you follow orders. When you own the company, you call the shots.

It took me nearly six decades to realize that i should only being doing what only i can do.

It’s a common ‘leadership text book’ theory.

Yet until you are in charge of your fate, you’ll never know what it means.

i’m in a place where if i now get asked (by someone who’s paying me) to do something someone else can do, i have the rare option to offer them their money back.

Why?

Because i refuse to do something that others can do.

i recently renamed my line of work from Executive Coach to Executive Resource. Why?

Because i bring something to the table no one else brings. Disney experience, Disney wisdom, Disney insight and Disney mastery. This is my super-power. This is what i get paid for.

Note: Undoubtedly, with everything else, there’s someone far more expert than me.

Writing today’s blogs has been therapeutic and cathartic. Today’s blogs have also been strategic. They’ve reframed that i need to move from verbal explanations to a one-page (if possible) written summary. Why? To scale the onslaught of requests, from previous clients, for this type of work (resource).

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Continuously improve your clarity

New cast screen of USA military help to Ukraine — $800-million in aid.

Continuously improve your clarity.

Texted a client because an invoice was past due.

It was my fault for misunderstanding.

The client mailed a check (fast) instead of doing an ACH wireless funds transfer to pay the invoice.

The mailbox is for business and gets checked once a week. The check had probably been sitting there a few days.

All i need to do is tell clients if they wish to pay by check, just let me know when it’s in the mail.

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Top 3 creativity and innovation priorities?

Disney Creativity Keynote Speaker — Most creative improvements happen on the front line. Small, low-cost to no-cost iterations that continuously improve things over time. Cast experience improvements. Customer experience improvements. Business-financial improvements. And of course, leadership improvements.

A leader and a direct report are paired and each has a Post-it note. The leader writes the top three creativity and innovation priorities she expects of her direct report. And the direct report writes the top three creativity and innovation priorities she thinks the leader expects from her.

What are the odds the lists match?

The entire point of clarity with expectations, priorities, and accountability comes down to scaling a winning formula. As employees become leaders, and as employees and leaders move around within an organization, the core mission, and the structure and processes to maintain and improve the mission are your cultural bedrock.

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The genesis story gets lost

mineral spring at Disney's Wilderness Lodge — In the rear of Disney’s Wilderness Lodge lobby, is this bubbling mineral hot spring, Silver Springs. The entire Resort was built around it, and because of it. It’s the genesis story. It’s essentially lost. What does one gain by never losing the origin story?

There are single thoughts that contain the essence of a whole volume, single sentences that have the beauties of a large work.
Joseph Joubert

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Project wind sprints

The extra inch (bottom left) traces back to 2011 when i began operationalizing the gift Kendal didn’t know he unwrapped.

Project wind sprints – a vision for how leaders (myself included) generally have contrasting (and reversed) priorities and outcomes during a project lifecycle.

We don’t sprint at the end, we sprint at the beginning. This is the best vision.

We don’t make compromises simply because bad planning means we’re running out of time. Also a great vision.

We eagerly highlight the challenges ahead, but spend no time casting blame after something fails. Perfect vision.

You cool with that?

You get that in real life we procrastinate the start, panic near the end, and scramble frantically to meet our deadline, right?

Be the change. Lead the great vision. Buck the herd mentality.

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