Business | The Disney Standard (with Former Executive Vice President of Disney, Lee Cockerell)
Thrivetime Show | Business School without the BS
Clay Clark
4.7 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 9 May 2023
⏱️ 20 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | And no, broadcasting from the Center of the Universe and the Thrive15.com World Headquarters. |
| 0:08.8 | It's the Thrive Time Show. |
| 0:19.2 | All right, Thrive Nation, welcome back to the Conversation. This is our opportunity to sit down with |
| 0:24.5 | the Lee Cockrell, the former executive vice president of Walt Disney World Resorts, |
| 0:30.7 | who wants managed over 40,000 employees. He managed over 40,000 employees and they had over a million |
| 0:38.0 | customers a week, a million customers a week. The insanity of that is just mind boggling. |
| 0:44.0 | Think about that. So how do you keep a high level of customer service when you have that many |
| 0:49.8 | customers? Because a lot of businesses say, well, we grew too fast and because we're big, |
| 0:54.7 | that's why the quality went down. No, no, no. They have intense processes and policies. |
| 0:59.6 | And one of those policies is at Disney World, you cannot bring your smartphone to the workplace. |
| 1:05.4 | Tyrant. You can't do it. And if you're a business is great and you're growing like Disney |
| 1:10.7 | and you can let your people have cell phones and it doesn't affect your culture, it doesn't distract |
| 1:14.8 | your teammates, doesn't create problems, then maybe there's a president to do that. But if not, |
| 1:19.7 | I would strongly recommend that you listen to this powerful training by Lee Cockrell, the former |
| 1:25.2 | executive vice president of Walt Disney World Resorts. Now, what about the thing to serve to win? |
| 1:33.2 | Serve to win. Yeah, to me, the win WIN stands for what's important now. |
| 1:38.4 | WIN stands for what's important now. And I would say in your whole life, if you can get used to |
| 1:44.4 | working on what's important right now, you will win. So what's important when a customer walks |
| 1:50.9 | on the store? The only thing that's important is to focus on the customer, not to keep talking to |
| 1:55.6 | each other, not to be screwing around over with folding the shirts. What about the texting? |
| 2:02.5 | Texting, you know, you're texting when the customer walks into the Disney store. You know, |
| 2:06.4 | you walk in, I work for you at Disney. And I'm just having a little, the text conversation. |
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