The quality of your life and your life’s results rests on your prioritized priorities.
The glaring challenging?
Most of us have no role model.
The biggest challenge?
Quit procrastinating. Quit waiting for the role model to appear.
Become the role model.
There is no other way.
And remember, find a million ways to stay motivated.
Be an example, not a warning.
Note: What’s in it for you by becoming, finally, an example? You get to die knowing you delivered a rare offer. Die believing you will be the example that someone needed.
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Organizational Vibrancy Coach or Organizational Vibrancy Resource?
What’s the difference? Why change descriptions?
The difference suddenly seems profound.
Executive Coach or Executive Resource?
A coach implies the coach will lead, and others will follow.
An executive resource implies the person has invaluable wisdom, experience, insight – and supports the leader.
Same thing for the difference between Organizational Vibrancy Coach and Organizational Vibrancy Resource.
A coach leads. A resource supports another leader.
Here’s the needed clarity: Do i want people expecting me to lead, so they can follow? Or do i want people expecting me be an insanely valuable resource to help them be excellent leaders, for their followers.
Rewrite this…
CEO & Culture Team weekly 1-hour call 01/01/25-12/31/25
Alright.
Let’s try this on for size…
Change from: CEO & Culture Team weekly 1-hour call 01/01/25-12/31/25
Change to: Executive Resource. CEO/Culture Team weekly 1-hour call 03/01/25-02.01/26
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Could you use a world-class Disney Creativity and Innovation resource this year?
Cut to the chase, do you know the six-steps for continuous improvement?
Call me, i’ll teach you (and your teams).
Ps. Teaching happens after the contract is signed and the invoice is paid.
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Had a premonition as a 14-year old that i’d like to ride a bicycle across our Country. This is the first 15 minutes into our honeymoon bicycle adventure across Washington State. The water here is part of Puget Sound.
Never lose your childlike curiosity at home.
What if…?
Yes, and…?
Note: While i didn’t know it until many years later, regret sucks. i knew it subconsciously, but was too young inexperienced to articulate it.
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What you are about to read was written years ago. It is part of my Disney Creativity and Innovation Insights book. It is randomly being shared today…
Disney Lodgekeepers (housekeepers at Disney’s Wilderness Lodge) had an idea shortly after Disney’s Wilderness Lodge opened in 1994.
To maximize daily efficiency with the fewest number of linen-room trips for supplies, Lodgekeepers packed as much onto their linen carts as possible.
A heavy linen cart on a carpeted floor is hard to push.
In the mid-1990’s Walt Disney World was unveiling Performance Excellence – an unprecedented management reorganization.
The primary goal was to tap into the knowledge “library” and experience base of the front line Cast Members.
The secret leadership ingredient that went missing from all previous “empowerment” initiatives was leadership involvement and approval.
Performance Excellence was designed to provide the missing link.
When the Cast said they wanted a self-propelled linen cart (like a self-propelled lawn-mower), leadership checked with our linen-cart vendor and you can just imagine their response.
Cool idea, but no.
Such a thing didn’t exist.
Anywhere.
So Disney leadership relayed the message to the Cast and the Cast responded, “But you said this time we promise.”
Long story longer – guess who co-owns the patent for the first ever self-propelled linen cart?
Additional backstory:
Disney’s Central Shops (where we build the Magic) and the linen-cart vendor partnered to invent the cart and receive the patent.
A Disneyland Merchandise Executive was visiting Walt Disney World – specifically, Disney’s Wilderness Lodge – and noticed the self-propelled linen cart in her hallway.
She took an existing idea and made it work for the food and beverage carts at Disneyland.
Can you imagine how heavy a beverage cart is that’s full of cases of bottled and canned drinks?
Creativity, for Disneyland Merchandise, didn’t mean invention, it meant adaptation.
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