inspired by and adapted from The Imagineering Workout, by the Disney Imagineers
– Peter Steinman, General Counsel, Disney Imagineering
Working from the back-end is finding the lessons that you don’t want to learn in the midst of your project.
This practice of back-end visualization is essential to almost everything we do and can be adapted to any project.
Next, consider how you could minimize these challenges so they do not negatively impact the project, and take necessary preventive action. This might be done through a contract, through people you might hire, materials you might use, or by adjusting a schedule.
Imagine all the reasonably possible outcomes of the project, select one that best meets your needs, think through all things that could delay, detour, or diminish your outcome and write them down.
Anticipating the possible outcomes of everyday decisions before you make them helps you avoid calamities, not to mention inconveniences.
It takes a special kind of vision to see the end before the beginning.
“Of course he did,” recounted his wife Lillian. “If he had not seen it then, we would not be seeing it now.”
After being around Disney cast members for several days this week, the story of people lamenting the fact that Walt died before Walt Disney World was built was recounted several times.
Being onsite at a Disney theme park always heightens my awareness of Walt Disney and the vision he had to bring so much to our world – groundbreaking animation, the concept of the storyboard creative process, live action/animation movies, and especially the concept of theme parks.
January 31, 2016
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