innovation – Page 10 – Disney Creativity and Innovation Keynote Speaker

Disney was never a thought

A lifetime at Disney allowed “Disney Style” to morph into a hybrid “Jeff Style”.

Walt Disney became a distant memory. With one exception. When i was home, too sick to attend school, those Disney albums brought comfort in a genuinely nice way. A lifetime career with Disney was never, ever, a thought.

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This website is about our HOME. This is the fifth of five daily, differently-themed blog posts about: (1) mind, (2) body, (3) spirit, (4) work, (5) home. To return to Mid Life Celebration, the site about MIND, click here.

The next impossible

disney podcast — At some point, this free public resource may require membership to listen.

What’s Jeff’s next big thing? After authoring a book, recording a 100-episode podcast (If Disney Ran Your Life) about balance, and publishing over 24,000 blog posts, Jeff will be announcing his “impossible” writing project soon.

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What did he do before Disney?

Mid Life Celebration, the book, and Disney Legacy name tag at mountain lake — Small-town kid. Shy. Athlete. No plans for the future.

What did he do before Disney?

Small town Pennsylvania, born and raised. A Paper Mill town. No stop lights, no grocery store, no fast food.

Captained the High School football team and set school records in Track.

Went to college near Philadelphia to become a Health & Physical Education teacher. This dream was crushed during Jeff’s Elementary School student-teaching experience. The kids ate him alive. He had no command of children. Jeff changed his major which led to an opportunity to intern at Walt Disney World’s Cast Activities Department in 1982.

Married in 1983, 15 months before he and his wife permanently relocated from Washington State to Walt Disney World.

Together, Jeff and his wife Cheryl created Disney Magic for 66 years.

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Feedback source doesn’t lie

Epcot t-shirts — EPCOT, experimental prototype community of tomorrow.

Optimism is rewarded with gratitude and hope; feedback is from nature and markets. Pessimism is rewarded with more pessimism; feedback is a social act, other humans pessimistically supporting and convincing each other.

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Life’s ripple effect

Disney's business thesis — Disney’s Organizational Vibrancy success formula. Adapts brilliantly to Personal Vibrancy.

Improve one of the five and the other four benefit. Neglect one of the five and the other four suffer. Heaven forbid you neglect two, or even three.
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