rethink, reprioritize, recommit your Leadership beliefs

Spaceship Earth
Day 17: Epcot’s Spaceship Earth.

rethink, reprioritize, recommit your Leadership beliefs

Where do we begin when we are fed up with the past and dissatisfied with our inability to break through the everyday leadership grind?

Cliche, but what about keeping it simple?

The ultimate sophistication is simplicity.

What’s first?

Three steps.

In prioritized order:

  1. rethink
  2. reprioritize
  3. recommit

Great leaders never underestimate the power of being clear, concise, and compelling.

Life and work are too complex to try to lead without clarity around the most important issues.

Life and work are too complicated to achieve organizational vibrancy without irrefutable priorities.

Life and work are too intense to ever show up without world-class Leadership Excellence commitment.

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Average Leadership is a crying shame isn’t it?

Disney Laundry logo
Day 15, September 2016. Daily writing at Walt Disney World. Textile Services is Disney-speak for Laundry.

There’s no room for average leadership at Disney

None.

Zero.

It’s a crying shame, isn’t it?

Because you’ll never know.

Never know what might have been.

Never know how effective your impact could have been.

Never lived up to the hopes your leaders had for you.

Never lived up to the hopes you had for yourself.

Satisfaction is dangerous.

They say only the mediocre are at their best every day.

The antidote is obvious.

Seek out timeless Disney Leadership Excellence wisdom.

Embrace simple, profound, industry-neutral Leadership insights.

Begin today to rethink, reprioritize, and recommit your time and effort.

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Detouring to wonder why

Day 14: Disney's Grand Floridian Resort and Spa lobby
Day 14: Disney’s Grand Floridian Resort and Spa lobby.

Detouring to wonder why

To wonder why?

Detour.

A different route to get somewhere; usually unplanned, unexpected, often scary and inconvenient.

What if we detoured in our journey to understand, and practice, the world-class, Disney Leadership Excellence key drivers required to become and stay an excellent leader?

The “what if” usually has an ending sounding like this, “I’ll never know?”

Why?

Because it’s safer, more convenient, and easier to manage the unexpected and unplanned if we just get back to the job at hand, which is to maintain the operation we lead.

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It’s Not The Leadership Magic That Makes It Work

two rocking chairs on brick porch
Day 13: Liberty Square, Hall of Presidents exit.

It’s Not The Leadership Magic That Makes It Work

It’s the hard Disney Leadership work that makes it Magic.

It comes down to being focused and disciplined.

  1. Focused on the basics.
  2. Disciplined to never take our focus off the basics.

Seems ridiculously simple right?

It is.

Remember, though; simple doesn’t mean easy.

If focus and discipline were easy, we’d all be amazing leaders.

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Disney’s Single Biggest Leadership Success Secret Revealed

Disney Institute van
Day 12: Disney’s Yacht and Beach Club Resort Convention Center.

Disney’s Single Biggest Leadership Success Secret Revealed

Disney over-focuses on the same things others under-focus on or ignore.

Disney Leadership banks on being intentional where others are unintentional.

This is the key to Disney’s long-term success.

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