In our final episode on SHOTS, we look at the last two vaccines...Take Time To Praise and Stay On Purpose.

Praise means to express warm appreciation or admiration to and about someone.

Staying on Purpose is all about being intentional with nurturing and protecting the vision and culture you've worked so hard to infuse into the organization.

Hope is defined as a feeling of expectation and desire for a certain thing to happen.  But you can't just hope for hope.

It must be intentional.  For Walt to believe those things would happen, he took time to instill in his leaders the values and vision he had for the company and Disneyland.  That's why it lived on...long after Disney.

Have you been to the doctor lately?  If so, I bet part of the exam had to do with prevention.  And just like our personal health, the health of our business requires a dose of prevention...those shots that help our culture survive.  So lets begin taking a look at:

S standardize the experience

H hold leaders accountable

O obsess about the details

T take time to praise

S stay on purpose

Two words that have captured the headlines for 2020, have been fear and failure.  But, could 2020, also be a year of unusual opportunity?

Brand strategist Jack Fussell helps lay out the fact that fear can lead to clarity of next steps, and failure becomes opportunity.

There are so many ways to describe excellence in the life of Walt Disney, but one of the best is their development of the multiplane camera.  The ability to shoot up to 7 frames of artwork under one vertical moving camera changed animated films for ever.

The next word that best describes the man Walt Disney is, perseverance.  It's the act of doing something despite difficulty or delay in achieving success.

And all we need do is look at the example of "Great Moments with Mr. Lincoln" to see this lived out in Walt.

Boldness is the characteristic of a willingness to take risks and act with innovation.  To show confidence and courage.

And there is no better example of this in Walt's life than his first full length animated feature, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.

We're half way home!  Today is number 6 and it's all about courage.

Courage is defined as the ability to do something, even when that thing is scaring you to death!  And Walt Disney knew a thing or two about courage.

So...is there something in your life that is absolutely scaring you to death?  Great!!  Why?  Because your greatest success, your Disneyland story, may well be just on the other side of your greatest fear.  Today...Be Courageous!!!

In our Culture Matters series we discussed the concept of careless leadership in the last episode.  Today, we're expanding this idea and looking at two types of careless leaders, and the importance of culture.

Integrity is defined as the quality of being honest and having strong moral principles.

It is impossible to separate your moral compass from that of your organization.  In times or crisis or big decisions, the "real" you, will alway emerge.  

Always be the leader they follow because what you say and what you do never change!