The Way to Get Started
Earlier this month, I came across a quote I want to use as the focus for this week’s WEDnesdays with Walt. “Ideas don’t come out fully formed. They only become clear as you work on them. You just have to…
Disagreeable Disney
I’m wrong. I’ve been wrong for years. This year marks the ten-year anniversary of me teaching, speaking, and writing on Disney. I’ve been reading and researching for more than thirty. All this time, I’ve had this image of Walt as…
Empower Everyone to Make Magic
Have you ever wanted to work in Human Resources? Yeah, me neither! But I am on my way to Boston this week to speak at an HR Conference on the future of work and to celebrate the one-hundredth anniversary of…
Are You Ready for Your Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow?
How many of you have a love/hate relationship with technology? Guess what…me too! Honestly, I can’t imagine our world today without computers, cellphones, Google, apps, Facebook, Instagram, or even TikTok. But if you are an old Yahoo, like me, then…
It All Started with a…Telegram!
Where were you three years ago? That’s right! It has already been three years. On March 8, 2020, I took a group of students to Disneyland for a Sunday tour and COVID was already all over the news. On Wednesday,…
Simba in the Sauna
I was always that kid. I’ve always been that guy. Never athletic. Never coordinated. Let’s just say that giving me a brain tumor (resulting in multiple falls and multiple fractures), let alone two, really wasn’t playing fair! For example, I scored exactly…
Taking Chances
Want to hear something ironic? I’ve just returned from a near-perfect trip to Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida. I emphasize the location because we were originally scheduled to fly in on Wednesday, September 28, the day MCO (Orlando’s airport…