ACCESSING THE RESOURCES

ACCESSING THE RESOURCES

It is said that Walt Disney refused to entertain any questions about whether his organizations could succeed or not. But that doesn’t mean that the creator of the Magic Kingdom did not use questions in more resourceful ways.

Charles Shows, was a writer with Disney before he went on to work with Hanna-Barbera developing such cartoon characters as Yogi Bear and Huckleberry Hound. One of the things Charles shared was that  anytime they were working on a new project or script, Disney had a unique way of requesting input.

He designated a whole wall on which he would display the project, script, or idea, and everyone in the company would come by and write down the answers to the question: “How can we improve this?”

They’d write solution after solution, covering the wall with suggestions. Then Disney would review everyone’s answers to the question he’d asked. In this way, Walt Disney accessed the resources of every person in his company, and then produced results commensurate with that quality of input.