Comments on: The Secret of Walt Disney’s Creativity

By: Orbit « Little Red Fire Engine

Orbit « Little Red Fire Engine — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 01:56:48 +0000

[...] your creativity! Check out Walt Disney’s secrets on being creative, by Lateral [...]

By: Mark

Mark — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 20:26:55 +0000

“due to the challenges faced in my environment I’ve become fixated at the critic stage.” – I feel your pain. Sounds like it’s time to lighten up and have some fun…

By: Mauco

Mauco — Fri, 15 May 2009 18:53:45 +0000

Great post Mark, thanks a lot.

By chance I visited the disney websites earlier this week and I must say they are great and your post has given me a glimpse to the creative process that has gone into them.

Personally over the years, I have passed through the 3 personalities you’ve mentioned. But due to the challenges faced in my environment I’ve become fixated at the critic stage.

But thanks to articles like these, I can now start to put things in perspective and move on to greater heights. Thanks again.

By: Walt Disney Had Three Heads! | Creative Reaction

Walt Disney Had Three Heads! | Creative Reaction — Wed, 13 May 2009 11:51:51 +0000

[...] Lateral Action has an article detailing Walt Disney’s three “personalities”, which allowed him to be successful in both art and commerce: [...]

By: Online Marketing Blog » Blog Archive » Friday Recap - Get Creative Edition

Sun, 10 May 2009 06:04:42 +0000

[...] achievement. I’m a Disney devotee over here, so I was pretty moved by this article on the secrets behind Walt Disney’s creativity. Walt’s lessons are ones we can all learn from. Success on the scale of Disney comes from [...]

By: Mark

Mark — Thu, 07 May 2009 18:32:15 +0000

Thanks everyone for the great feedback and observations.

@Fred

I wonder if their reasonably clear understanding of how he worked made it even easier for them to create such magical stuff.

I would imagine it did. It sounds like he enjoyed surprising and challenging people by switching roles, but I’d guess their understanding of the ‘method in the madness’ would be helpful all round.

@Gabriel

The art and creativity inherent in building a business (especially one so cutting edge as Disney’s at the time) is something that is usually lost on a lot of creative professionals.

Exactemundo! Sounds like you’d get on well with Marla.

By: Trenton Seymour

Trenton Seymour — Wed, 06 May 2009 05:54:54 +0000

What an incredible post. I would recommend everyone reads that three or four times.

Everything from the content to the way its written. Mark can write some blog post, that’s for sure.

Walt was the man, and lets not forget about EPCOT as well. Those communities would have changed the entire world for the better had he not died.

Very good integrations and insights here.

-Trenton

By: Gabriel Novo

Gabriel Novo — Tue, 05 May 2009 19:25:50 +0000

The art and creativity inherent in building a business (especially one so cutting edge as Disney’s at the time) is something that is usually lost on a lot of creative professionals. Almost as if the word “business” automatically drains the endeavor of any satisfaction.

I’ve encountered those that look at these different roles as chores that they have to do, instead of seeing them as equal parts to a process that will build better output. Finding the joy in each facet, whatever it may be, will only push the quality of work to higher levels.

I’ve been able to play all three roles quite strongly, but always focused on someone else’s project. Inhabiting these roles for my work and getting them to balance out has been tricky to say the least.

Thank you for this wonderful post and I will definitely check out the “Strategies of Genius” book.

By: Andy Weir

Andy Weir — Tue, 05 May 2009 12:16:26 +0000

Really appreciate your efforts on this post – fantastic summary of what seems to be a valuable book.

Not been a fan of Disney as a *nameless, faceless money-making machine*, however you have to admire the way that Mr Disney made it happen and learn from it!

This also reminded me of “Ten Faces of Innovation” by Tom Kelley.

Now, to go and practice there roles

By: marion Chapsal

marion Chapsal — Tue, 05 May 2009 08:08:41 +0000

Mark, you wrote an excellent post, thank you. I wish I had written it myself since it’s one of my favorite topic. I have been trained by Robert Dilts and even been once an interpret at one of his seminar (English to French). The Disney strategy is one my core topic and always great to facilitate in Leadership trainings.
We each have to define and re discover what our strategies of excellence are. NLP , visualization, intuition,” caring and creative coaching” help you achieve that.
When you become aware of your personal strategy of excellence (often embedded in childhood memories, or in having fun creating playing, aside from work), you are best suited to be your own best coach. Reward is success.
After 15 years of training several hundreds of individuals and teams, I have learned the immense richness and diversity of success strategies. Find your own and become tomorow’s Walt Disney!

I am sending you some of Dilts Ppt slides from his last Vision and Leadership European Summit, where can I post them for every body? (pdf format)
Again, cheers and bravo for the excellent quality of each of your post. Marion