54. Creating Disney's Culture and Becoming a Better Leader | Lee Cockerell

The ONE Thing

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Business, Careers, Entrepreneurship

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 10 July 2017

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Are you taking daily action that contributes to your legacy? Today's guest, Lee Cockerell, is the former Executive Vice President of Operations for Walt Disney World Resorts. As a senior operating executive, he led a team of more than 40,000 cast members and left a legacy that includes the Disney Great Leaders Strategies, which has been used to train more than 7,000 leaders. In this episode, Lee shares how you can cast a vision, create a culture, and leave a lasting legacy on a massive scale. We recorded this conversation as part of our monthly ONE Thing webinar series. Every month, we feature an incredible author so that you can learn directly from them and ask questions. If you want to sign up for our next FREE monthly webinar, head over to the1thing.com/webinars. The ONE Thing to Implement From This Episode: At the heart of this conversation is a message about personal accountability. You control how you show up in the world – do you think about the type of legacy you want to leave and are the actions you take on a daily basis lining up with that vision? What is the ONE thing you can do on a daily basis, from this episode, that will make everything else easier or unnecessary? In this episode you will learn... [7:15] How you can start creating a respectful culture in your organization today. [11:45] Why the best leaders role model trustworthiness. [20:20] How you can take daily action for your future (and how the younger generation can prepare to start a future business). [24:50] How these power habits helped Lee create his legacy. [31:20] How leaders can (and should) take advantage of their team's expertise. [34:25] ONE thing that every manager needs to know. [40:05] How you can build a culture in an increasingly virtual world. AWESOME FREE RESOURCES FOR YOU! The Kick Ass Guide To Accountability Form your first power habit with your 66 Day Challenge Calendar Check out our awesome blog! [FREE Training] How to Start Time Blocking TODAY! Links & Tools From This Episode Learn more at LeeCockerell.com Production & Development for The ONE Thing Podcast by Podcast Masters Mentioned in this episode: Factor 75 Head to FactorMeals.com/one50 and use code one50 to get 50% off. That’s code one50 at FactorMeals.com/one50 to get 50% off! Factor 75

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0:00.0	This is the One Thing Podcast where we teach you the surprisingly simple truth behind extraordinary results.
0:08.0	My name is Jeff Woods. I'm the Vice President here at the One Thing team.
0:12.0	In the last episode we talked
0:13.7	about identifying your priorities and your values in business with Josh Dorkin
0:18.3	from Bigger Pockets. If you miss that episode, make sure you go back and check it
0:22.3	out. In this episode we are sharing a
0:25.3	recent live webinar that we did with Lee Cockrell. Lee was the former executive
0:30.9	vice president of operations for Walt Disney Resorts.
0:34.4	He was one of their senior operating executives for 10 years.
0:37.4	He led a team of over 40,000 people, which any of you leaders out there, I mean, imagine what it looks like to cast a vision, create the culture, set the standards for 40,000 people.
0:52.0	This is the mind that you are about to get access to today.
0:56.2	And this is part of what we try to do every month on our one thing webinar series.
0:59.2	So if you want to see what webinars we have coming up, you can go to the one thing
1:02.3	dot com slash webinar that's with the number one in the URL and you can see all the
1:07.6	past webinars there and then you can see the one that's going to be coming up
1:10.7	in the month ahead so make sure you check that out. Today we talked to
1:14.0	Lee about how we created Disney's culture and how you can become a better leader.
1:19.2	So with that, let's get into this episode with Lee Cockrell. I am so excited to share this. You all know I am an avid learner and I am constantly
1:39.3	looking for the edge I can find through new knowledge and incredible mentors, which is why I absolutely love
1:45.5	Masterclass so much. I've taken the art of negotiation with Chris Voss, which has been instrumental
1:50.6	in my ability to communicate and negotiate at a high level.
1:53.4	I've learned from James Clear on how to leverage small habits to make a big impact,
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