Tag: Questions

If Disney ran your mental attitude

Dead Poet's Society
The day Robin Williams died, an email from a 1990’s Disney colleague.

 

If Disney ran your mental attitude, we’d ask four simple questions:

  1. How well are your employees able to articulate your vision?
  2. How engaged are your employees in carrying out your vision?
  3. How clear are your employees on what they are being held accountable for?
  4. How committed are your employees, day in and day out?

There are many more questions but these are the baseline starting points.

 

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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.

 

Strange Magic

Disney University lobby
Yesterday while running, having fun with potential clients.

 

Strange Magic…

Not the song by Electric Light Orchestra from 1975.

A strange magic has flooded my thoughts with questions.

Questions about fear, opportunity, luck, obligation, and vision.

A few lucky breaks (strange, and magical) combined with a new year of setting (my) corporate direction have collided unexpectedly.

i’ve become busier – sooner than expected – and am overwhelmed with joy, yet faced with a new set of challenges.

Questions like:

  • How much is the content, and how it’s presented, worth?
  • Where is the value and price line that you will not go below?
  • How do i communicate and justify the value?

No one walks into an Apple Store believing they can negotiate the price of an iPhone or MacBook.

No. One.

Why?

Because Apple has set the expectation. Clearly. Most Apple customers understand Apple’s Magic and pay the premium. Those that don’t get it, move on.

This is where i’m at right now.

 

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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.

 

What do you do? (reprise)

Corn and airplane sculpture hanging from boarding area ceiling
Yesterday at Atlanta airport.

 

Where are you from?

What do you do? (reprise)

Two safe and typical conference networking questions.

Our attitude drives our thoughts.

Our thoughts drive our behaviors.

Our behavior drives our results and success.

Our success results drive our happiness.

What if we abandoned the safe and typical questions and led with something from this list?:

What’s your favorite color? Why?

Not counting this conference, when was the last time you felt this alive?

What did you come here to find?

Those questions took about 20 seconds to come up with. It’s easy to think creatively when our attitude craves it.

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Do we need questions that make people’s minds explode?

Q. Why did you create Mid Life Celebration?

A. Because the world needs a wake up call.

This Is Genius, the video below, really is, genius.

 

 

Leadership 201: Ask questions that make people’s minds explode – because of the question’s power.

The video made my eyes water, as a 55 year old dad of a 14-year old, i find myself asking a powerful question that no one offers a convincing answer to.

What’s the purpose of school?

Hat tip to Seth Godin for sharing.

This Is Genius?

Yes.

Final answer.

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Maybe our immunity is a liability

Disney inspirational coins
Inspirational Disney coins

 

Do we become immune to the possibilities of a simple question like this:

What’s it gonna be today?

Life is about the choices we make. It is not about choices someone else makes or doesn’t make.

This is easy to forget. It’s also easy to remember. Our choice, no?

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