innovation – Page 20 – Disney Creativity and Innovation Keynote Speaker

Not until it’s something everyone wants to defend

Disney Creativity and Innovation expert Jeff Noel on Main Street, USA — Waiting for Front Entrance Leader, Benjamin, to update us. He said what we had done so far is fine, but to not shoot more video using big equipment.

Not until it’s something everyone wants to defend

If you’re the business owner or co-owner, you’re either the CEO, on the Cabinet, a silent partner.

Your stakes are as high as they get.

Owner.

You own the business.

You’ll defend it with every fiber in your mind, body, and spirit.

Right?

Now imagine you’re not the owner.

How invested are you in the issues, the challenges, the opportunities, and, the problems?

Not very.

Why should you be?

Do the math, what if 99.9% of your employees (at all levels) would be willing to walk away if times got too tough?

Do the math a second time. What if 99.9% of your employees (at all levels) would NOT be willing to walk away if times got too tough?

A striking difference to be sure.

Why wouldn’t they abandon ship?

Because they believe in what you do in such an unexplainable (and wonderful) way that they can’t imagine doing anything but protecting your Creativity and Innovation culture, your Creativity and Innovation brand.

Why?

Because your Creativity and Innovation brand is a huge part of their personal brand.

It’s in their DNA to be on the (your) mission that makes the world a better place.

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It’s a creativity trap

Disney keynote speaker Jeff Noel on stage with a giant bull’s-eye — Gave back to WordPress – a free keynote speech – to repay them for all WordPress has taught me.

It’s a creativity trap

The waiting.

The doing nothing.

It’s a creativity trap.

We’re caught in this profound, literally hopeless dilemma.

So we entertain, distract, and medicate ourselves to make it through another day.

Wait.

Step back from your daily routine and elevate yourself high enough to look down and see the whole show – to see what you never see.

You’re too close to see it.

But if you were an experienced business advisor and executive coach, you’d see it easily and clearly.

Here’s the good news, the fear you feel from a brutally honest assessment is the catalyst you need – a glorious gift – to rethink your situation.

It’s important to level set the premise here: You have to find your own motivation to invest the time and effort to .think differently and begin to .do .differently

Otherwise, the next sentence will go in one ear and out the other.

From deep and personal rethinking, you will evaluate your priorities. Odds are good you have the right priorities, however, odds are high your priorities need some reshuffling. This reprioritization is the key to unlocking an intentional future.

Try that on for size: Intentional future.

Imagine how easy it is to recommit to your future with the recalibrated set of creativity and innovation priorities.

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Confused by abundance and easy access?

Walt Disney dressed as Abraham Lincoln — Walt dressed as Abraham Lincoln.

Confused by abundance and easy access?

We can access all the creativity and innovation information in the world.

At anytime, from anywhere.

The cost?

Free.

So why are we stuck?

Why are we still battling the whack-a-mole reality?

Sound familiar: Your day is filled with one pressing operational issue after another. Most of it is stuff that wasn’t on your calendar.

Here’s why.

We are desperately in over our heads and unwilling to publicly admit our lives (professionally and personally) are taking a toll on our creativity and innovation effectiveness (and, by the way, on our health).

The antidote?

A better set of creativity and innovation blueprints to build a better, healthier continuous improvement culture.

Your next step is to identify several world-class organizational culture architects and hire the best fit.

Wait, i get it, you’re in charge and you don’t need to do anything you don’t want to, especially when the price is high.

Waiting and doing nothing are the twin siblings of organizational (and personal) decline.

Let that sink in.

Okay, the ball is in your court.

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Radically ask for better creativity and innovation blueprints

Disney author Jeff Noel writing from a nursing home Room — Flew to Allentown, Pennsylvania and now writing from a nursing home room.

Radically ask for better creativity and innovation blueprints

What you know about creativity and innovation comes from what you’ve done, read, experienced, taught, written, thought, and dreamt about.

Even with all that going for you, odds are high you’re still yearning for better, simpler, more profound and actionable information.

Have you considered asking for more, and for better?

Have you considered being radical in your asking?

Some say, “Ask and you shall receive.”

i say .think .differently about .creativity and innovation.

Keep your questions ridiculously simple and be radical in asking for better blueprints.

No one builds a cathedral without blueprints.

Why would your creativity and innovation legacy be any different?

Why would your company’s creativity and innovation culture be any different?

Why?

How’s that for a radically simple question?

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Looking Back, Now Will Have Been A Bargain

Disney University hallway — Disney University.

Looking Back, Now Will Have Been A Bargain

The cost for adding creativity and innovation enhancements always seems expensive at the time.

The price you pay for all those years living without the enhancements is literally impossible to recoup.

This so-called price you pay takes the form of lost growth and revenue, unrealized organizational vibrancy, turnover costs, unintentional transfer of intellectual property to your competitors, and the slow and steady erosion of an already unstable foundation.

What would it take for you to see – and act on this reality – that it’s such a bargain to begin transforming now.

Now.

As in there’s no time to wait.

One small step forward.

Right now.

Awareness is the first step to recovery.

Simply admit, right now and unequivocally, your creativity and innovation culture is unhealthy and needs a doctor.

The cost for an architect to draw a new set of blueprints is exponentially less costly now than what it will cost you in the future.

You cannot build from a plan you can’t see on paper.

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