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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.

Bill Capodagli

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
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
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
Organizational culture begins in HR. This means to hire for attitude and train for skill.
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Attitude Mean Skills
An idea becomes great when it becomes tangible.
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Become Ideas Tangible
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
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
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.
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Creativity Dream Organization
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
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
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
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 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 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
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
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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Heart People Stories
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
Productivity starts with doing the right things.
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Doing Productivity Right Thing
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
In the best organizations, love is the real “pixie dust.”
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Dust Love Real
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
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
Always look for ways to improve even the “good show.”
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Looks Shows Way
Innovate, don’t imitate. Set out to create a culture that is right for your organization, then work at making it happen.
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Culture Happens Organization
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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Culture Focus Long
Attitude is the desire to transform our knowledge into skills and ultimately into habits.
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Attitude Habits Skills Transformation Ultimately
Habits grow from obtaining knowledge, attitude and skills.
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Attitude Habit Skills

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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