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The chain of excellence i used at Disney for 30 years

Birds on a wire — Yesterday morning on my street.

Today’s five posts represent a Chain of Excellence that i used – for 30 years at Walt Disney World – to be an effective leader. Leadership drives the employee experience and the employees judge their leader’s trustworthiness on what they see their leaders do, not what they hear their leaders say.

Action vs Intent

Design vs Default

Inch vs Mile

Definitely vs Likely

In vs Out

Maybe tomorrow i’ll dive deeper. Depends on what happens today.

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It doesn’t matter what we know

Something about this that says, “genius”.

To know is to do. To know and not do, is to not yet know.

Reread until it makes sense, and it will.

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There’s a reason you felt that way

Disney University — Yesterday, a water station.

You felt a certain way the last time you did something that was brave, generous, and important.

There’s a reason for that.

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One of life’s most overlooked opportunities suffocates us

Disney Casting Center unique Disney door knobs — One good turn deserves another.

Midlifers at Disney's Casting Center — Creating Magic? Finally meeting after six years.

Why do we let what we can’t do stop us from what we can do?

How do you thank someone for their overwhelmingly remarkable demonstration of community?

One of life’s most overlooked opportunities suffocates us. And it happens so slowly, we don’t even notice.

We fear failing or embarrassment, so we wait and do nothing. This poisons our soul.

What if we simply did what we could, even if it felt small?

Because haven’t we been taught since childhood that it’s the little things that count?

Yesterday was unexpected proof.

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As Boomers we’ve had copious opportunities to do things that stiffen our spine

(photo: The last full day on Sanibel Island, July 18, 2014)

As Boomers we’ve had copious opportunities to do things that stiffen our spine. You know, the types of things that we generally say, “Later. I’ll do it later.”

To go one step farther, these are the types of things we’d even describe as inspiring or life fulfilling.

Not like visiting Paris (because we’ve been telling ourselves for 40 years we’d go there some day) inspiring.

This is on a much smaller scale.

More like, “Yeah, this would take some serious effort and commitment, but why the heck not?”

The kind of thing that we sort of dream up as a crazy idea and a year later, we say, “It’s now or never.”

In the course of several hours today (this post is ‘late’ at 4pm), airfare, rental car, and lodging booked for a father and son return to ‘dad’s favorite place in the whole world’ and the son’s favorite spot from last summer’s grand vacation.

The math: just back from a week of traditional summer beach vacation and leaving in three days for the Crown of The Continent for a quick trip for lunch.

Boomer’s, let’s do more of this.

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