The basics make it or break it

book and Disney legacy name tag at mountain lake
Some people serendipitously spend a lifetime learning, doing, teaching, and becoming masters at how things work.

Never get bored with the basics.

Focusing on the basics will make your organization. Neglecting the basics will destroy it.

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Disney’s linear chain of excellence

Note to Walk Disney
Wrote this to Walt at a ceremonial legacy event at Disney’s Hollywood Studios, inside One Man’s Dream Attraction.

Focus and discipline are our masters.

One good turn deserves another.

Leaders impact employees, who impact customers, who impact business results, and, creativity is the DNA of the entire business chain of excellence.

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Think deeper, care more, reach higher, work harder

Disney Institute speaker Jeff Noel
About 20 years into a 30-year Disney career.

The why took me to the microscope, which led to brilliantly simplistic discoveries.

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Why is practicing common sense rare?

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You need to raise every bar to the highest level – the highest standard.

Disney’s Approach to Business Excellence, you’ll see in a moment, is ridiculously simple.

And yet finding an organizational culture of overwhelming leadership excellence is roughly as statistically similar as finding a large number of vibrantly healthy American adults.

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But why me?

Walt Disney Legacy nametag
Glacier National Park. Year after year, why Glacier?

Like a broken record, i kept repeating the same question over and over, “Why me?”

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