Category: What’s Our Obligation?

The next big goodbye

The Disney goodbye happened in 2014.

The next big goodbye will be blogging, 2025.

Only 16 days away.

Not feeling ready.

Finding solace though in knowing i can still write every day if i want to.

Guessing i’m gonna want to.

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Saying goodbye to Disney

Saying goodbye to Disney was my first big goodbye.

It was also the most intentional and thoughtful.

Planned six years in advance.

Took my time orchestrating the metamorphosis.

Two years before goodbye, buyer’s remorse hit me hard for a year. What if this is a mistake?

Got through that tough year (2013) and the sixth year (2014) of “goodbye Disney prep” was the best of all my 32 years at Disney.

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Show, don’t tell

Four hikers at a foggy trailhead
To have the privilege and the opportunity to lead our son and his two best friends he met in ninth grade on a 13-mile hike… What is that worth? Note: In this photo they are all college graduates. Nine years after meeting they continue to meet frequently, including our annual GNP trip.
Two hikers in the mountains
In 50 years of visits, getting to share the most amazing animal encounter that i’ve ever had, with my wife, on a trail deep in the middle of the wild. Note: The Grizzly is between our heads.

Show, don’t tell.

We judge ourselves on our intentions, others judge us on our behaviors.

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Lower-class goal?

Apple alarm clock screenshot
An amateur goal is to say “my goal is to get more sleep”. A CEO-level vision is to say, “my goal is to get eight hours of sleep every night”. Ps. On average, i get eight, not seven. But sometimes less than eight happens.

When you ask the CEO what’s your goal, and why is it important, remember what you might hear (unfortunately) is an incremental goal and not the end goal.

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How to maximize an executive resource

Disney customer service speaker Jeff Noel on stage
Lean into discomfort. Non-negotiable.

How to maximize an executive resource:

Think like you mean it.

Be amazed and be amazing.

Be inspired and be inspiring.

Prepare a purposeful weekly meeting agenda.

Provide 72-hour agenda notice.

Relentlessly ask your executive resource your toughest questions.

Stealthy ensure your best audience attends.

Respect, appreciate, value, and encourage all attendees.

Push your attendees to envision a future not only better than now but much better than now.

Bonus: Reach out at anytime about anything.

Second bonus: Give your team (and your executive resource) goosebumps every time you meet.

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