Disney Leadership Book – Page 52 – Disney Leadership Keynote Speaker

Why participate in a 72 hour challenge?

Disney author jeff noel — Keep moving forward. Progress is most consistently made in small, daily increments.

Why participate in a 72 hour challenge?

You can’t be serious.

Why?

Isn’t it obvious?

If you don’t do anything with the keynote speaker’s content within 72 hours, you won’t do anything with it…

Ever.

Scary?

It should be.

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On April Fool’s Day 2009, jeff noel began writing five daily, differently-themed blogs (on five different sites). It was to be a 100-day self-imposed “writer’s bootcamp”, in preparation for writing his first book. He hasn’t missed a single day since.

All or nothing

Personal triumph — Not quite to the two mile mark, he’s (left) trailing a teammate (upper right) by roughly 200 meters.

The all-or-nothing scenario faces most of us every day. And often, all day.

It can be challenging (ok, more like impossible) to deliver at a high level all the time.

At Disney, however, we believe this culture of excellence can (and must) be architected with intentional structure and processes – to facilitate exactly that – high performance, all day, every day.

Was inspired by a 10th grader smashing his season (and lifetime) best 5k personal record by 3-minutes and 20-seconds.

Unless you’re the boy or his parents (and maybe his coaches) the obvious question is, “So what?”

So what does this mean to any of us and our continuous challenge to raise, at every level in our organization, every employee’s willingness to accept and deliver at an exceptional level all day, every day?

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Leaders

Vision

Every leader can articulate their vision in a clear, concise, compelling way to their direct reports, their peers, and their boss.

Involvement

Every leader can articulate, to anyone, the difference between training for compliance and developing for commitment.

Structure and processes are key.

Accountability

Every leader uses the employee-customer-business three-legged stool. Every leader uses the technical-managerial-behavioral three-legged stool.

Metrics and expectations are prioritized.

Commitment

Every leader spends a corporately agreed upon amount of face-time with direct reports. Front-line leaders would be 80% minimum.

Every leader uses a corporate-wide Continuous Improvement Process.

Every leader uses a corporately-approved three-tiered recognition structure: Employee to employee, leader to employee, company to employee.

Every leader completes a corporately approved leadership development session, including a 360 evaluation from boss, self, peers, direct reports (or partner if no DR).

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Your big break

Disney business books — i love when the word Disney is used on books by authors who aren’t officially part of Disney.

When will your “big break” arrive?

It’s taking forever, right?

Time to give up?

Truth be told, you’ve been getting your big break.

Your big break is every day.

As in today.

Today.

It’s up to you to keep chipping away at it.

Today.

Eventually, you’ll crack open your lucky break.

Insight: it won’t crack open if you stop chipping away.

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Zip it or change the world

Hurricane Matthew radar view — Blind spots are this easy to see for others; blatantly obvious as they say.

Zip it or change the world.

i’m so busy overcoming my blind spots i don’t have time to complain about what someone else should fix.

Insight: Rid yourself of criticism. What you dislike and complain about in others is likely the same thing others see in you.

Conversely, what you like and admire in others may be what you project to the world.

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