When you're curious, you find lots of interesting things to do.
Walt DisneyRead
The main quality of leadership..........is courage ! If you can dream it, you can do it!
Interpretation
Leadership requires courage and the belief that dreams can be achieved.
This quote by Walt Disney emphasizes that the essence of effective leadership lies in courage. It suggests that a leader must not only possess the bravery to take risks and make difficult decisions but also must foster a vision that inspires others. The second part of the quote reinforces the idea that if one has the ambition and determination to envision a goal, they also have the potential to realize it.
In practice
During a leadership workshop to encourage emerging leaders.
When you're curious, you find lots of interesting things to do.
Here is the world of imagination, hopes, and dreams. In this timeless land of enchantment, the age of chivalry, magic and make-believe are reborn - and fairy tales come true. Fantasyland is dedicated to the young-in-heart, to those who that when you wish upon a star, your dreams come true.
To all who come to this happy place: Welcome. Disneyland is your land. Here age relives fond memories of the past, and here youth may savor the challenge and promise of the future. Disneyland is dedicated to the ideals, the dreams, and the hard facts that have created America; with the hope that it will be a source of joy and inspiration to all the world.
It's kind of fun to do the impossible.
Disneyland is a work of love. We didn't go into Disneyland just with the idea of making money.
Happiness is a state of mind. It's just according to the way you look at things.
Never ask anyone to do what you haven't done before and wouldn't do again. That's a pretty fundamental rule in leadership... treat them like you treat yourself. Things you don't like, they don't like.
I wasn't a great communicator, but I communicated great things.
I think we would be stronger if half our countries and companies were run by women and half our homes were run by men.
Cats do what cats do, ducks do what ducks do, and eagles do what eagles, do. If you take a duck and ask it to do an eagles' job, shame on you. As a leader, your job is to help your ducks to become better ducks and your eagles better eagles - to put individuals in the right places and help them reach their potential.
And I will do everything that I can as long as I am President of the United States to remind the American people that we are one nation under God, and we may call that God different names but we remain one nation.
It took me a while to learn that certain people may have important skills that are not always blazingly apparent. Gradually I came to realize - slow as I may have been - that what mattered was performance, that sometimes people might have to be helped to develop, and that it takes all kinds to make an organization run properly.
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