Tag: culture

Closing in on push comes to shove

Disney Cultural Experts
Small World in the background.

 

Disney Leadership Expert Speakers
Just a random moment, over-focusing on a simple opportunity.

 

Disney Leadership Expert Speakers
At Disney we like to say, “The closer you look, the better it gets.”

 

Disney Leadership Expert Speakers
Seriously. We were just walking to It’s a Small World.

 

Disney Leadership Expert Speakers
Disneyland’s special Small World Holiday celebration.

 

Disney Leadership Expert Speakers
First time (and possibly last time) ever seeing it this way. Thank you Disneyland.

 

Disneyland Sleeping Beauty Castle
The last photo inside Disneyland yesterday.

 

Closing in on push comes to shove. Really need to get that first Disney Business Culture book written and published.

 

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How do you prioritize cultural imperatives?

Disney cultural imperatives
My Disney University friend’s list on the right, mine on the left.

 

How do you prioritize cultural imperatives?
Yes, a Disney Cafeteria napkin.

 

How do you prioritize cultural imperatives?

One list, based on these organizational priorities:

  1. What is foundational?
  2. What is flexible?
  3. What is for the future?

Second list, in my own words:

  1. What must an employee know?
  2. What does an employee need to know?
  3. What is nice for an employee to know?

When time and or money are scarce, make sure whatever you do gets done in descending order, otherwise, you are not over managing with intentionality.

In fact, when we are not intentional, we are not creating “by design”.

Without an intentional design, we are accepting a culture by default – one that happens without guidance and without focus. This a is diseased culture; one that is hard to cure.

 

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Why aren’t we crystal clear with ourselves about this?

Disney University Lobby
Photo from earlier this week. A lifetime here is a heavy influence in how i think. In 1982, i worked on the second floor every Friday in Cast Activities.

 

It was weird in hindsight.

We talked at length yesterday about how powerful culture is. Everyone knows it’s critically important.

Yet like health, we don’t do much about it (today).

It’s something we save for when we have time.

The harsh reality is we never have time.

We aren’t organized enough to be crystal clear about our priorities.

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