Tag: Book

2016 Disney Dream Cruise Day 1 at Port Canaveral

corporate architect jeff noel
Yesterday at the Gold’s Gym locker room urinal.

 

Driving to our 2016 Disney Dream Cruise Day 1 at Port Canaveral in a few hours.

Meanwhile, was reflecting on an executive conversation last week so i’m changing some of the words in the photo above:

You can’t build a great company culture without a solid foundation. Likewise, before we begin to build more advanced layers of culture, you first need to establish proper cultural DNA and a base level of organizational structure. With a comprehensive, holistic approach, my corporate culture architecture will ensure you avoid “good and very good”, and make steady progress towards excellent, at your pace, and begin your path to sustainable competitive immunity.

Insight:  i find inspiration and karma to be pervasive. My goal of staying hydrated requires frequent trips to the bathroom. From the mundane task of standing at a urinal, a moment of genius in the photo above.

 

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This website is about our mental attitude. To easily leave this site to read today’s post on jeff’s physical health website, click here.

 

Sustainable leadership?

Disney Cruise Line app
We set sail tomorrow, November 21.

 

Sustainable leadership?

 

Today’s posts were inspired by this one.

Most executives, most staff, and most organization spend the majority of their days doing good or very good work.

This creates a leadership culture where good, or very good, is the bullseye by default.

What if excellence (rather than good or very good) was the bullseye, by design?

What would it take for executives, staff, and the entire organization to spend all their days doing excellent work?

The “what would it take” is precisely what my Disney-inspired corporate architecture solves for.

PS. You’ll notice something that will start to seem like a shortcut or mistake, but it’s not; it’s intentional, even at the risk of sounding repetitive.

 

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This website is about our mental attitude. To easily leave this site to read today’s post on jeff’s physical health website, click here.

 

Who creates unnecessary dissatisfaction and desire?

Mid Life Celebration author jeff noel
i address the reality of being medicated, distracted, and entertained.

Who creates unnecessary dissatisfaction and desire?

Before you answer, consider three words…

1. Unnecessary.

Unneeded, useless, unimportant.

2. Dissatisfaction.

Discontent, unhappiness, anger.

3. Desire.

Yearning, longing, craving.

 

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On April Fool’s Day 2009, jeff noel began writing five daily, differently-themed blogs (on five different sites). It was to be a 100-day self-imposed “writer’s bootcamp”, in preparation for writing his first book. He hasn’t missed a single day since.

 

It’s been 50 days already

Disney Keynote Speaker
Yesterday at Typhoon Lagoon.

 

Deadlines are the reason things get done.

Seven Disney business books written in one year – from the release of the iPhone 7 until the release of iPhone 8.

Not ambitious enough for you?

Ok.

All are being written on an iPhone 7 Plus.

Better?

Wait, you want more?

Ok.

All are being written at Walt Disney World.

Satisfied?

 

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This website is about our mental attitude. To easily leave this site to read today’s post on jeff’s physical health website, click here.

 

On April Fool’s Day 2009, jeff noel began writing five daily, differently-themed blogs (on five different sites). It was to be a 100-day self-imposed “writer’s bootcamp”, in preparation for writing his first book. He hasn’t missed a single day since.

 

A list of transformational 72 hour challenges

Harambe Market at Disney's Animal Kingdom
Yesterday’s Disney Leadership book writing location, Harambe Market at Disney’s Animal Kingdom.

 

Personal growth and surrender are inseparable.

Having short-term intentional challenges mitigates the temptation to compete against luck.

Here are some of the ridiculously small steps (72-hour challenges) i’ve taken that have been transformational:

 

  1. Stop texting and reading emails while driving
  2. Write five daily, differently-themed blog posts
  3. Stop drinking alcohol
  4. Stop speaking up in meetings (advice from boss)
  5. Drive the speed limit
  6. Make 10 minutes early my “on-time” standard
  7. Jog 100 meters each morning
  8. Place every postage stamp upside down
  9. Tell my colleague’s bosses complimentary examples about them (and never tell my colleagues i did it)
  10. Keep my leader (while i was at Disney Institute) informed so they never have to ask
  11. Volunteer at Church
  12. Buy a glass jar and fill it with 936 beads, place it on my desk before our Son is born
  13. Take one bead out of the jar every Friday until our Son turns 18 (18 years x 52 weekends/year = 936 weekends (beads)
  14. Handpick flowers and personally deliver them to my Wife
  15. Start going to the gym
  16. Schedule annual health checkups in January
  17. Weigh myself (twice) in the morning
  18. Floss my teeth before bedtime
  19. Read at least an hour a day
  20. Write at least two hours a day
  21. Make plans to retire at 55
  22. Create a “plan b” before the next potential economic crisis
  23. Stop drinking coffee and diet coke
  24. Begin each day on my knees

 

All of the above were small steps that began one day and continued for a few more days. Now, it’s the new normal.

 

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This website is about our mental attitude. To easily leave this site to read today’s post on jeff’s physical health website, click here.

 

On April Fool’s Day 2009, jeff noel began writing five daily, differently-themed blogs (on five different sites). It was to be a 100-day self-imposed “writer’s bootcamp”, in preparation for writing his first book. He hasn’t missed a single day since.