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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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Organizational culture begins in HR. This means to hire for attitude and train for skill.
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Attitude Mean Skills
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
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
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
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
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
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
Habits grow from obtaining knowledge, attitude and skills.
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Attitude Habit Skills
Productivity starts with doing the right things.
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Doing Productivity Right Thing
In today’s global economy, innovations and improvements to products and services are not only happening more rapidly than ever before in history, they are being communicated instantaneously. So, it’s “innovate or die”!
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Improvement Innovation Today
An idea becomes great when it becomes tangible.
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Become Ideas Tangible
Walt’s major passion was to provide the finest in family entertainment. For the most part, for nearly a century, the Company has stayed true to that legacy, and has set the standard for the entire entertainment industry.
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Company Entertainment Entire Finest Standard
Twenty years ago if you provided someone with horrible service, it may take weeks or even months for the word-of-mouth message to get out to 15-20 potential customers.
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Media Mouth Years
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
Vision without execution is like a plane without wings, or Dumbo without ears, it just won’t fly.
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Execution Vision Wings
Often we will learn more from our failures than we do from our successes.
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Failure Learn Success
In the best organizations, love is the real “pixie dust.”
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Dust Love Real
Attitude is the desire to transform our knowledge into skills and ultimately into habits.
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Attitude Habits Skills Transformation Ultimately
Walt Disney said everything he had ever accomplished was a result of Mickey Mouse. Mickey was Walt’s alter ego and he was originally modeled after Charlie Chaplin’s Little Tramp character. So without Chaplin, who knows what Mickey would have become!
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Character Ego Littles
Write down your Dream or story; create your own unique Values, Believe in them, and use them to make all decisions; Dare to take some risks; and Do the planning, revisions and details to realize the Dream.
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Believe Dare Dream Take Write
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
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 results of “engaged” companies vs “disengaged” companies are staggering. Getting workers to be more engaging with their coworkers and customers can produce huge results.
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Coworker Produce Results
Always look for ways to improve even the “good show.”
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Looks Shows Way
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
In the long run, it costs more to provide poor rather than good service.
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Cost Long Running

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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