What if we could live in a bold world like this?

United flight info
Only booked a one-way flight to Glacier National Park. At $235, plus $25 for a few perks, this is a decent price to Kalispell.

 

What if we could live in a bold world like this?

Like what?

A bold world where we didn’t think in terms of limitations.

Instead, our world (or Company culture) only thought in terms of innovative possibilities?

Possibilities.

Nothing less.

Our driving goal is scalability and sustainability.

And the word impossible doesn’t exist.

Learn to love some things you’ve been taught to fear.

Can you imagine?

How amazing is that?

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RIP common sense

Orlando Eye
Last night from the restaurant, in the distance, the Orlando Eye. Common sense tells us to look to the horizon (future). Almost imperceptible.

 

Orlando Eye
Common sense tells us to focus, take a closer look, and be thankful.

 

Culture is the most powerful tool we have to change behavior.

Personally and professionally.

Let’s focus on personally right now.

All our life we are selfishly robbing from common sense, which insidiously erodes our standards.

Common sense can’t reason with excuses, distractions, or fear.

Because of this inability to reason, excuses, distractions, and fear easily outsmart common sense.

In our efforts to find shortcuts to save time and or money, and to avoid pain or embarrassment, we take creative (and what appears to be innocent) shortcuts.

What we accept by default becomes our standard.

RIP common sense.

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Why would you make a new employee wait five years?

Employee recognition programs

    Photo: screen shot from LinkedIn yesterday.

 

Disney Cast years of service awards
Photo taken yesterday from my office bookshelf.

 

Top photo summary: Based on the Amazon employee’s status update, Amazon doesn’t recognize an employee’s 1-year anniversary. But they do celebrate 5-years with a special employee ID.

Bottom photo summary: Disney recognizes 5-year employment anniversaries like Amazon, but also celebrates the first-year anniversary with a special Steamboat Willie Service Pin for the Cast Member’s name tag. Additionally, a new “years of service” pin is awarded at every five year anniversary. The Pinocchio statue also came with a 30-year service pin to wear on my Disney name tag.

So i have seven pins:

1, 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, and 30

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

Why would an organization not focus on an early, celebratory win, on the first company anniversary?

Why?

And what’s to be gained culturally by celebrating one-year anniversaries?

The thinking that went into Disney’s cultural norm versus Amazon’s illustrates the power in .thinking .differently

 

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Corporate Culture Architectural Blueprints from a lifetime at Disney

Disney corporate culture expert speaker
Just Google it.

 

An organization “addicted to urgency” shapes it’s culture by default. The “less expensive” goal is a culture by design.

Profoundly simple. Simply profound.

New speaking/advising website coming June 25, 2016 (25 days from today) – my speciality is corporate culture architecture – blueprints if you will.

 

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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.

 

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Elvis has left the building

Orlando airport parking garage
Habits are what we think and do without thinking.

 

Habits are our default mode. No thinking required. It’s built in.

Of course i take a photo of where i parked. i also always park in the last spot in the row.

So the “insurance policy” is that if i can’t find the photo, all i have to do is walk the back of the parking lot.

 

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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.

This website is about our mental attitude. To easily and safely leave this site to read today’s post on jeff’s physical health website, click here.