Raise Your Game: Mickey In The House

May 23, 2011 • 23 Min Podcast

Mickey is in the house! We discuss Leadership and behind the life of Walt Disney with Roshan Thiran from Leaderonomics. How he was fired from his first job for not being creative enough to the most creative person in the world.

There are ten principles of management that Walt Disney laid down for Disney:

Make everyone’s dream come true
You better believe it
Never a customer, always a guest
All for one and one for all
Share the spotlight
Dare to dare
Practice, practice, practice
Make your elephant fly
Capture your magic with storyboards
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The secret to his success is his three chairs that he named The Dreamer, The Spoiler and The Realist.

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