The best ideas can come from anyone within an organization. Leaders must remember that if they want employees to embrace a new organizational “Dream” or strategy, they need to include them and seek their ideas. Creativity is NOT just for the R&D department.
BILL CAPODAGLIThere 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.
More Bill Capodagli Quotes
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In the long run, it costs more to provide poor rather than good service.
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When you focus on results, you will very seldom see a change in your culture. But, if you focus on a customer-centric culture, you will realize long-term results.
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Organizational culture begins in HR. This means to hire for attitude and train for skill.
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Values must be demonstrated through behaviors, but they are truly significant when they represent the beliefs of an entire organization.
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Habits grow from obtaining knowledge, attitude and skills.
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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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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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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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Vision without execution is like a plane without wings, or Dumbo without ears, it just won’t fly.
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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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An idea becomes great when it becomes tangible.
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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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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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People are over 20 times more likely to remember a story than a series of facts and figures. A good story touches our hearts.
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The role of any exceptional facilitator or consultant is to work themselves out of a job.
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