“Don’t be in the business of playing it safe. Be in the business of creating possibilities for greatness.”
― The Ride of a Lifetime: Lessons Learned from 15 Years as CEO of the Walt Disney Company
― The Ride of a Lifetime: Lessons Learned from 15 Years as CEO of the Walt Disney Company
“Don’t start negatively, and don’t start small. People will often focus on little details as a way of masking a lack of any clear, coherent, big thoughts. If you start petty, you seem petty.”
― The Ride of a Lifetime: Lessons Learned from 15 Years as CEO of the Walt Disney Company
― The Ride of a Lifetime: Lessons Learned from 15 Years as CEO of the Walt Disney Company
“If leaders don’t articulate their priorities clearly, then the people around them don’t know what their own priorities should be. Time and energy and capital get wasted.”
― The Ride of a Lifetime: Lessons Learned from 15 Years as CEO of the Walt Disney Company
― The Ride of a Lifetime: Lessons Learned from 15 Years as CEO of the Walt Disney Company
“At its essence, good leadership isn’t about being indispensable; it’s about helping others be prepared to possibly step into your shoes—giving them access to your own decision making, identifying the skills they need to develop and helping them improve, and, as I’ve had to do, sometimes being honest with them about why they’re not ready for the next step up.”
― The Ride of a Lifetime: Lessons Learned from 15 Years as CEO of the Walt Disney Company
― The Ride of a Lifetime: Lessons Learned from 15 Years as CEO of the Walt Disney Company
“True authority and true leadership come from knowing who you are and not pretending to be anything else.”
― The Ride of a Lifetime: Lessons Learned from 15 Years as CEO of the Walt Disney Company
― The Ride of a Lifetime: Lessons Learned from 15 Years as CEO of the Walt Disney Company
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