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November,
2004 Welcome
to Leadership Hand™, a monthly e-newsletter To ensure receipt, please add our e-mail address "Info@" plus our domain name to your e-mail address book. 1. Creativity: Disney Had It Right Creativity is a powerful force. Then why, when we attempt to invoke the kind of creativity that jumps us to new possibility, do we seem blocked? Easy. We have no strategy. Walt Disney, though, had it right. He knew that creativity needed nurturing, just as a tender flame needs nurturing to start a fire. His strategy fostered creativity by starting from the dream, creating possible paths, and then letting current reality assist in choosing the path. What do most executives and their teams do? They start where we all start--from noticing we want something different. It's a good place to start. We have rich data--we know what we want and what we don't want. (Sometimes the intermediate goal is to increase our clarity about what we want or don't want.) But the fatal mistakes are:
Ever seen someone standing by a barbecue grill with a water bottle? The flames flare, engulfing the meat. Squirt, squirt with the water bottle. There's the hissing sound as spray hits the embers. The flames immediately fade. A few minutes later, they flare again. Squirt, squirt, hiss. That's exactly the effect of trying to dream while grounded in current reality. Useful for cooking steaks or hamburgers--not for creating your business or your life. Any path you come up with to achieve this dampened objective will likely be logical and may be successful. It may also be exactly what you need right now. If so, congratulations. But taking just any path you come up with could also give you one big YAWN when you think about executing it--because there's no zing. Just as bad, it may give your customers or employees a big YAWN. (If you are or your team is languishing in indecision on a key area, check first for boredom, and second, check to see if you or they are trying to avoid a bad consequence rather than moving toward what you want. Avoidance drains energy. Moving toward what we want creates energy.) How do we move from spark to life-giving blaze? Here are the fundamentals based on the Disney Strategy developed by Robert Dilts, a major contributor to the field of Neuro-linguistic Programming.
See? Taking this approach won't keep you floating around in fantasy never to touch ground. Current reality has a viable, valuable place, but it's the last phase you tap into when invoking creativity. If you don't
come back to current reality after dreaming and after creating possible
paths, it serves neither you nor your team or company. You'd be
like the fellow student in my metal-working course. He was so focused
on his creation, he Here's to Your Creativity! Beth Hand © Copyright 2007, Beth Hand. Beth Hand, MBA helps leaders increase their effectiveness and satisfaction, now and for the future. She can be reached at (+1) 703.820.8074 or via her website www.leadershiphand.com. 2. Executives in Career Transition If you are an executive in career transition or considering one, come meet other executives from diverse industries, share tips and contacts to speed the transition process and increase your job search effectiveness. Hand Associates
is the host for Execunet executive networking meetings in alliance
with DBM (formerly Drake Beam Morin), a global provider of strategic
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was oblivious to the 2000-degree sparks he was shooting around the
work area and down my back. I, however, wasn't oblivious. I really
did like that shirt.
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