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My mother’s work ethic, her attitude, and the way she treated each and every customer as if they were her best friend were better lessons than could be found in all the text books in the world.

Bill Capodagli

There is an old Indian saying, “When legends die, dreams end. When dreams end, there is no more greatness.” Leaders like Walt Disney inspire their organizations to keep their legends and stories alive.
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Dream Greatness Organization
In the long run, it costs more to provide poor rather than good service.
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Cost Long Running
Social media can work to a CEO’s advantage. Someone with a great product in a small town in the middle of nowhere can compete in the world marketplace.
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Media Middle Nowhere World
Values must be demonstrated through behaviors, but they are truly significant when they represent the beliefs of an entire organization.
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Behavior Belief Organization
When values are deeply embedded within an organization, they seldom change.
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Embedded Organization Values
My mother’s work ethic, her attitude, and the way she treated each and every customer as if they were her best friend were better lessons than could be found in all the text books in the world.
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Attitude Book Mother
The two greatest role models in my professional career were Walt Disney and Dr. Deming. Dr. Deming was the Father of Total Quality Management and the person who redefined quality for the entire world.
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Career Father Great Two
In 1962, Sam Walton changed the face of retailing with Wal-Mart. As we speak, Amazon is again changing the face of retail with on-line buying.
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Changing People Retail Speak Year
The two critical questions to ask are: “Who is my customer?” and “What value am I adding?” Unfortunately, many workers cannot answer these questions. They tend to blindly do things, and develop bad habits of doing things over and over for no good reasons.
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Answers Habit Two
Knowledge is the understanding of what, how and why we need to do something. Skill is applying that knowledge in a practical situation.
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Attitude Skills Understanding
Today, with social media, thousands of potential customers can learn about horrible service within hours, minutes or even seconds after it happens.
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Happen Horrible Minute Service Today
One of the reasons for The Walt Disney Company’s long- term success is really the first of Dr. Deming’s famous points, “create constancy of purpose.” In his professional career,
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Careers Long Passion
Often we will learn more from our failures than we do from our successes.
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Failure Learn Success
The key is to make sure you are doing the “right things” before you worry about doing things “right”.
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Keys Right Thing Worry
If your values are not used as the constitution of your organization, or if they are compromised, they become just words on paper.
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Constitution Organization Paper
Love for coworkers, love for customers, love for the product and love for self. Walt Disney instilled all of these “loves” in his company. Each of these factors is critical to achieving success in any organization.
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Factor Love Organization Self

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