Disney Creativity & Innovation book – Page 22 – Disney Creativity and Innovation Keynote Speaker

Looking Back, Now Will Have Been A Bargain

Disney University hallway — Disney University.

Looking Back, Now Will Have Been A Bargain

The cost for adding creativity and innovation enhancements always seems expensive at the time.

The price you pay for all those years living without the enhancements is literally impossible to recoup.

This so-called price you pay takes the form of lost growth and revenue, unrealized organizational vibrancy, turnover costs, unintentional transfer of intellectual property to your competitors, and the slow and steady erosion of an already unstable foundation.

What would it take for you to see – and act on this reality – that it’s such a bargain to begin transforming now.

Now.

As in there’s no time to wait.

One small step forward.

Right now.

Awareness is the first step to recovery.

Simply admit, right now and unequivocally, your creativity and innovation culture is unhealthy and needs a doctor.

The cost for an architect to draw a new set of blueprints is exponentially less costly now than what it will cost you in the future.

You cannot build from a plan you can’t see on paper.

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Why would you settle when it’s not necessary?

Golds gym — Golds Gym is a 42k bike ride roundtrip from home.

Why would you settle when it’s not necessary?

The only limitations you have are those you impose upon yourself.

Struggling to become more creative and innovative?

Challenged to create a vibrant creativity and innovation culture where at least 80% of your leaders are rated by employees as very good or excellent at creating a risk-taking culture?

Challenged to create a vibrant risk-taking culture where at least 51% of your leaders are rated by employees as excellent at encouraging and supporting world-class creativity and innovation?

Do you have a personal conviction that good and very good aren’t good enough?

Do you understand the dramatic difference between an excellent idea-generating culture’s ability to get excellent results, a very good idea-generating culture getting very good results and a good culture getting good results?

Can you articulate the difference between a good idea-generating culture and an excellent idea-generating culture; and the difference between a very good culture and an excellent culture?

If you can, and i’m assuming you can, why would you settle?

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Busy Doing Nothing

Home office bookshelves — Jungle Jeff HQ.

Busy Doing Nothing

Being good at doing things well is often seen as success.

Really?

Think about it.

Yes, we are good at things.

But are we good at the right things?

Who’s coaching us about creativity and innovation priorities?

Who’s holding us accountable?

And what if our boss is the same boat as us?

What if our boss has creativity and innovation priorities that we are good at delivering on, but what if all of us are focused on lower level priorities?

What if we are the boss? What if we’re passing this on down to our direct reports?

The creativity and innovation mission critical stuff, often the soft stuff, is left alone because it’s too hard to see and measure improvement.

It’s analogous to trying to lose weight instead of trying to lower our resting heart rate, our cholesterol, BMI, and triglycerides.

There are a lot of fake creativity and innovation problems in business. Fake problems are issues we spend time managing that have disproportionate value to more important priorities.

Fake problems are convenient for medicating our lack of a clear, concise, and compelling vision.

Organizational health (and personal health) is priority one.

Never get bored with the basics.

Spend time doing nothing.

Quiet time, void of distractions, void of deadlines, meetings, initiatives.

Spend time there and you’ll be astonished, if you really open your heart, at what you can accomplish when you’re busy doing nothing.

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Creativity and Innovation time out, Disney-Style

Two month calendar — Same color coding as a traffic light.

Creativity and Innovation time out, Disney-Style

Four world-class creativity and innovation basics i learned from 30 years at Disney.

Do the basics brilliantly.

Never get bored with the basics.

Generate, select, implement, leader’s role.

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Cultural Creativity and Innovation Blueprints Implementation Plan

Disney’s Wilderness Lodge was built around this natural Hot Spring.

Improve

Let’s review the suggested cultural blueprints implementation plan.

The Building owner is the CEO.

Deliverables from Leader Champions are plumbing, hvac, electric, lighting.

Generate Ideas: Build your box.

Select Ideas: Six steps Continuous Improvement Process (CIP).

Select Ideas: CIP.

Leaders Role: Environmentalist. Everyone’s creative. Organize to maximize. Your idea is separate from your identity.

All collaborative efforts by executive leaders and the cross-functional teams should revolve around simple, focused, energetic, creative, visionary, and scalable outcomes – blueprints for an organizationally vibrant culture.

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