Just Like Disney Institute But You Get Two Bonuses
First, you get an owner. The owner.
Second, you get a 30-year Disney Cast Member who received both of Disney’s Lifetime Achievement Awards: Disney’s Partners In Excellence and The Walt Disney Legacy Award.
Partners In Excellence has three foundational pillars: Cast. Guest. Business.
The Walt Disney Legacy Award also has three pillars: Dream. Create. Inspire.
Bonus bonus: You also get Disney Institute’s highest rated, most requested speaker (1999-2014).
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Let’s agree that risk implies an uncertain outcome – an uncertain future.
Easy, right?
The good news about organizational vibrancy risk when the future isn’t certain is that you know you are on to something special.
Listen to the sound of that again – you’re on the path to something special.
Of course, the other option is to stay on the beaten path, the tried and true.
You know what you’ll get.
Safety.
Mediocrity.
Plain vanilla.
Stagnation.
Competition.
Average.
Now back to the uncertain path, the future, and the reality that your risk might not work.
This is the opposite of the tried and true formula which requires us to do today what we did yesterday and the day before that. And to repeat that tomorrow and the day after that.
Every day you embrace an uncertain future is a day of adventure.
Will you have the stamina, the courage, the creativity, the tenacity, and the desire to keep moving forward when the logical thing to do is to turn around and retreat?
Imagine answering, “Yes.”
Burn the ships, no?
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Pixar Soul premiered 2021…hence these figurines in Glacier Summer 2021.
Chain of Excellence:
Common sense
Given a choice between thriving or surviving, no organization picks surviving. Jeff uses irrefutable common sense, like this example, as one of three main teaching tools. Here, he lays the organizational foundation: vibrancy, not survival, is the only goal.
Questions
What is the supreme goal of every customer interaction? Jeff uses questions, like the supreme goal, to reveal operational, cultural gaps between what is essential and what is reality. Essentials, the foundational basics, must be daily reality for vibrancy to flourish.
Paradox
Status quo. Average. Industry standards. Past practices. Meeting specifications. Tradition. Dogma. And, eventually, organizational irrelevancy. The solution, look at the opposite end of every spectrum. Jeff’s TED Talk, Why Going The Extra Mile Is A Flawed Concept: And What To Do Instead, reveals the competitive advantage of going the extra inch. Jeff’s first book, Mid Life Celebration, is the paradox of Mid Life Crisis. And his nine-season, 100-episode podcast (If Disney Ran Your Life) is the antithesis of ‘balance is a myth’.
Why this book is valuable
This book is valuable because it has no peer.
Why 7 Disney Business books?
A better question, and paradox, is why not seven Disney business books?
The best analogy i can make
If you know what should be done to move from organizational survival to organizational vibrancy, but don’t do it, you don’t really know. To know is to do. To know and not do is to not yet know.
3 tools of my trade
Ask simple, powerful questions. Look at the extreme, invisible paradox. Trust your gut with common sense.
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