Trust your feelings and intuition

Anne Sweeney – Co-Chair of Disney media and president of the Disney ABC Television Group

I had a breakthrough moment little over a year ago. We were creating a lot of technology to enable people to watch television. We had a plan to create a technology that would allow you to watch an ABC television station live on your iPad or your phone.

We had plans, we had workflow, we had everything going  and every team was working. And I woke up a little over a year ago thinking “we need to go faster”. I just had a moment a feeling that the world was moving so fast, people were moving so fast this technology needed to happen sooner rather than later.

So I sat down with my team and I put it on the table and I accelerated the timeline. They said let us come back to you in two weeks and tell you what this means and tell you if we can do it. Well they came back two weeks later and they said we can do it but this is what will happen to us over the next year if we do it.

We ended up having the most exciting year of our lives. It brought the team together in a way that I’ve never seen before or since not just because they were united in a big goal but because they had to rely on each other at such a high level and the level of trust to the group went through the ceiling.

 

Build a leadership team

Annie Young-Scrivner – Executive Vice President and President of Starbucks Canada

I was thinking through breakthrough moments and I think it’s an opportunity to build a leadership team and the ability of that team to galvanize an organization, where they not only understand what they have to do but they truly feel it in their hearts.

There is several examples of this whether it’s running a developing country and having to significantly shift the trajectory of the growth rate, the combination at having people that are very different than you and ability to leverage your skill set has been one of those things I have carry on with me.

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