Business | Ep. 1 - Management Mastery with Lee Cockerell
Thrivetime Show | Business School without the BS
Clay Clark
4.7 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 9 May 2023
⏱️ 16 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | And no broadcasting from the center of the universe and the Thrive 15 dot com world headquarters, it's the Thrive time show. |
| 0:14.4 | All right, Thrive Nation. Welcome back to the conversation. Today, a unique opportunity to sit down and interview me. |
| 0:21.9 | Former executive vice president of Walt Disney World Resorts, the man who used to manage over 40,000 |
| 0:29.0 | employees. Could you imagine what it would be like to manage a number of employees, whether where a comma |
| 0:34.9 | is involved, where it's 44, zero comma, zero, zero, zero, 40,000 employees. That is such a massive |
| 0:42.5 | responsibility. And then think about this. They at Disney World during the time that Lee |
| 0:47.4 | Cockerel managed Walt Disney World Resorts. It was the world's number one tourist attraction drawing over |
| 0:54.8 | one million guests per week. Could you imagine what it would be like to have a million customers a week. |
| 1:02.7 | And so during this interview with Lee, I get to ask him about the importance of checklist. I talked to him |
| 1:10.8 | about the two books that he believes every entrepreneur should read. He explains to me his system for |
| 1:16.5 | inspiring his team and offering great customer service. The necessity of waking up early, the |
| 1:21.9 | importance of getting better every day and how to keep your employees and teammates engaged. |
| 1:30.1 | Everything at Disney, the bathrooms are clean to certain way. Hamburgers are made a certain way. |
| 1:34.2 | French fries are cooked to certain way. And it's not a tribal knowledge. It's not a verbal |
| 1:39.0 | knowledge. It's not something that's all written down and documented into a series of checklists. |
| 1:44.0 | Talk to me about the importance of that. Well, you can't remember everything. If you want attention |
| 1:47.3 | to detail, you've got to list all the details and that you have to do those through a checklist. |
| 1:51.7 | And they've even proven that people who use checklist are much more successful. Hospitals are |
| 1:56.5 | lowering infection rates with checklist. Wash your hands, use the alcohol rub, rub down the room. |
| 2:03.6 | They're actually reducing stays in hospitals. Checklists, pilots with checklist, don't have crashes. |
| 2:10.6 | You can't. Can you imagine a pilot says, we can't find a checklist up here. |
| 2:14.3 | Pretty sure we have you. We got it boast of it, right? And then you hear them talking to each |
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