Walt Disney on product differentiation

Walt Disney and the Tiki birds photo
(Photo: Disney blog) Walt said aim for perfection, settle for excellence.

 

Were does jeff noel’s zealous attitude for excellence, details, and being the best you can be come from?

Directly from the DNA of Walt Disney.

Walt Disney wanted the audio-animatronic birds to breathe. He wanted their chests to inflate as their lungs filled before beginning the next chorus.

Our Imagineers told him him it was too much perfection, the audience wouldn’t see it.

Walt told them, “They may not see it, but they’ll feel it.”

The biggest challenge any organization must overcome is how to get their employee culture to pay attention to the smallest of details – details lost on the visible eye. Details that if no one sees it, is it still worth it?

Details that make you different, and better, than your competitors.

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Walt Disney taught me to give it 100%

Disney's jeff noel quotes
The repetition with this photo is 100% intentional.

 

What if all our hard work and preparation only results in reaching one person?

Would we still do it?

What if that one person was our spouse or child?

Would we still do it?

What if we don’t work hard and the result is we reach no one?

Would we be satisfied with our effort?

Would we find peace, contentment, and joy in not trying harder than we are capable?

Walt Disney taught me to give it 100%.

Everyday.

All day.

We might set the world on fire.

We might not.

Live like you mean it.

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What criteria is used to validate a “Disney Expert”?

Disney expert, speaker, consultant jeff noel
Disney expert, jungle jeff, intentionally cut off in this photo.

 

What criteria should be used to validate a “Disney Expert”?

Safe to assume Disney experts get that way from being immersed, for a lifetime, in Disney Culture.

So there are Disney trivia experts, Disney pin-trading experts, Disney history experts, Disney food experts, and on and on.

If someone were to write a book entitled:

If Disney Ran Your Life: The Owner’s Manual to Creating Personal Magic

What would make them an absolute expert authority?

Would working there for a lifetime be pretty close?

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If Disney Ran Your Life

Disney's Magic Kingdom photo on a busy day
There are a couple dozen people who are eminently qualified to be Disney Business experts.

 

Is there any interest in having this become a category?

If Disney ran your life.

If Disney Ran Your Life: The Owner’s Manual to Creating Personal Magic.

What a person chooses to focus on is what the person chooses to say about themselves.

Could our personal story become more purposeful and meaningful if we were as intentional about it as Disney is in running their businesses?

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