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Tag Archives: Courage
What is your attitude about excellence?
What is your attitude about excellence? As a leader, everything is your fault. Great leaders accept responsibility. Then they collaborate with their team to fix things. And when things are amazing, great leaders shun the spotlight. An article on Walt Disney’s thoughts on courage and leadership is here. Son, become a student of leadership. Start […]
Wearing a hat is a pseudo alcohol buzz
Wearing a hat is a pseudo alcohol buzz. Don a hat and we immediately feel more courage, more confidence, more bravado. Why? Maybe because… Hats are often worn as part of an accomplishment: a team, an affiliation, a milestone – a proposed statement of proof that effort and dues have been paid, and that the […]
RIP Scott
January 24 (yesterday), 2013 a colleague sent our team an email and then took his life. From the first week 20 years ago in 1999 when i began my Disney Speaking career, i felt compelled and obligated to always offer every audience a balance between Pixie Dust (our vision) and Reality. It is good to frequently […]
Better to set and fail than not set and fail
“Setting challenges is part of me, it’s part of my DNA,” Dave McGillivray says. “I can be okay with missing my goals. To me that’s not a failure. But not setting goals, that does seem like more of a failure.” Full Runner’s World article here. The article is about a 64-year old guy who’s recently […]