By Saeed Khan
We came back recently from a family vacation in Florida. Aside from just missing being hit by hurricane Isaac (thank goodness), we spent several days at Walt Disney World. We went to Disneyland in California several years ago, and I did blog about it back in 2007.
While some of the experiences between the parks were similar — I’m still a fan of their parking system! 🙂 — some were quite different. The scale of DisneyWorld in Florida is daunting. I found DisneyLand in California to be on a much more human scale, if you understand what I mean. This definitely impacted our experience there as traveling between different parts of DisneyWorld can take a fair bit of time.
Aside from the various attractions in the parks, one thing caught my eye. In various parts of the park there were plaques (like the one on the right) that had quotes by Walt Disney related to innovation. I couldn’t resist stopping to read them and took pictures of several of them.
So in no particular order here they are:
1. You don’t build it for yourself. You know what the people want and you build it for them.
This is pretty fundamental but well said as it frames the context correctly. You need to understand the needs of others and build for them. Innovation is all about building/creating with the needs of others in mind.
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