litemar.blogg.se

1. Oprah winfrey black eyed peas i gotta feeling how to#
2. Oprah winfrey black eyed peas i gotta feeling professional#

It doesn’t happen simply because a CEO or other leader starts jumping around and getting excited, hoping that others will get excited too. High performance does not just happen spontaneously, nor is it left to chance. So what does this have to do with organizational performance? Well, the same thing is true in the best organizations.

Oprah winfrey black eyed peas i gotta feeling professional#

And guess what? Yep, the young woman in the blue dress is one of the professional dancers. So, no, this dance wasn’t spontaneous at all, but actually well thought out, well planned, and well executed. All they had to do was watch one of the 800 professional dancers who were stationed throughout the crowd who already knew the dance by heart. If they happened to forget the moves it wasn’t a problem. On the day of the event, and prior to Oprah arriving, these 800 dancers were placed throughout the crowd, and then the crowd was taught the basic moves.

Oprah winfrey black eyed peas i gotta feeling how to#

Then a core of about 20 professional dancers learned the dance and how to teach it, and they helped teach it to 800 other professional dancers. Then simple steps were designed into the dance that would make it easy to teach others. It was from director Michael Gracey and choreographer Ashley Wallen, and the planning for this began many months prior, long before the young woman in a blue dress started dancing.įirst came the idea to do this as part of the Kickoff Party. What I discovered was that, like most great things, it did start with a person or at least a small group of people, although it wasn’t the young woman in the blue dress. So I went off to investigate and find the real story behind turning this “mob” of individuals into a well functioning dance machine. Powerful things that are well executed come from inspiration, yes, but they also come from good planning. And while I do believe that powerful things can and do just “happen,” I also know that this isn’t usually the case. I must admit that as I watched the video I felt the power from the crowd its excitement its focus its energy. The belief is that this spectacular event just all seemed to happen on its own, and all of these people just magically worked together all of a sudden. Many of the comments talk about the amazement that a single person can get 21,000 people working together, and then lament why we can’t even solve our own problems, either for the country or at work. This video has gone viral, with people sharing this version or posting alternate versions, many with comments like “girl starts dance party,” or something similar.