Day 45 of year-long epic Disney business book writing challenge

Disney's Animal Kingdom
We stopped for ice cream on the way out.

 

Disney's Animal Kingdom Harambe Marketplace
Time to leave.

 

Disney Leadership author jeff noel
Hidden fellow in the shade about to become exposed.

 

Disney Leadership author jeff noel
Fichwa means hidden.

 

Disney Leadership author jeff noel
Selfie, to capture the moment in time.

 

Disney's Animal Kingdom entertainment
We had two 20 minutes African serenades while we wrote.

 

Disney Leadership author jeff noel
Nothing fancy required to write like you mean it.

 

Disney Leadership author jeff noel
Had a photographer along.

 

Disney Leadership author jeff noel
Plenty of shade and out of the way of Guest foot traffic.

 

Disney Leadership author jeff noel
Had lunch before we wrote yesterday.

 

Day 45, yesterday, a Sunday, was particularly good because i spent it writing with our Son, while Cheryl is in Pennsylvania helping her 93-year old Mom.

 

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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.

 

Nice bank, nice bike

Disney's SunTrust Building
Until the Team Disney Building was built in 1991, the SunTrust building was Walt Disney World headquarters. Photo taken yesterday a few feet from the Hilton.

 

Keynote speaker
Nice Bike is a metaphor for making connections.

 

Nice bank, nice bike.

Yesterday’s (Day 41) Disney Leadership book writing took place at Disney’s SunTrust Building.

Only a few feet away, i walked through The Hilton at Walt Disney World’s convention center. Boxes of the book, Nice Bike, were being stacked for convention attendees.

It made me ponder the difference between the C25K running initiative to get folks off the couch to run their first 5k, and the contrast against the personal habits modification necessary to make running (or some aerobic activity) last a lifetime.

This led quickly to the business analogy:

Inspirational speaker creating a ripple effect lasting from days to weeks, and in rare occasions, months. A good shot in the arm, but it wears off. Eventually, it’s like nothing ever happened.

Catalytic speaker sharing cultural architecture to address – and solve for -root causes. One year, maybe two or three years later, the culture has made a dramatic leap, actually becoming the DNA of the company’s brand reputation.

 

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What’s more impossible than impossible?

Disney Leadership Keynote speaker jeff noel
Yesterday afternoon, day 36 of 365 days.

 

Disney Leadership Keynote speaker jeff noel
Writing at Skipper Canteen in Adventureland.

 

Disney Leadership Keynote speaker jeff noel
While exiting Magic Kingdom…an important reminder.

 

What’s more impossible than impossible?

Writing 7 Disney business books in one year is literally impossible.

But writing them all entirely at Walt Disney World is even more impossible, if that’s even possible – you know, to be more impossible than impossible.

So what would make it MUCH more impossible than impossible?

Try writing all 7 books on an iPhone.

Today is day 37 of 365.

 

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Improve

Generate Ideas

You can only pick a new idea or solution from what’s generated. Quantity over quality. Never evaluate in the generation stage. Think outside the box in this phase.

 

Select Ideas

It’s critical to think inside the box during this phase. Define your box using vision, mission, brand, and customer as the four sides.

 

Implement Ideas

Establish a corporately approved continuous improvement process. Ensure it becomes a way of life.

 

Leader’s Role

Every leader is an environmentalist. Whatever happens or doesn’t happen is the leader’s fault. Every leader’s job is to create a collaborative culture where ideas have no choice but to flourish.

 

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