Tag: Disney

First Disney Podcast episode, second question

Disney Keynote Speaker
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What does jeff do?

At home, jeff does the outside stuff plus finances. Cheryl does inside stuff.

At work, jeff is an army of one, like many small business owners.

Life buckets jeff focuses on as a practitioner and as a teacher:

Balance

Speaker

Writer

Thinker

Doer

Advisor

Death

Over-focus

Senior Olympian

mind, body, spirit, money, hq

You know, all the usual stuff that makes for a balanced life.

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Inspiration is like a flywheel

Disney podcaster jeff noel
Surrounded by nature. Inspired by nature. Recording “if Disney Ran Your Life” podcast yesterday.

Inspiration is like a flywheel. Challenging to get it going, but once you do it literally takes care of itself.

Counting your blessings and being present in them is one of the “inspiration basics”.

Never get bored with the basics.

We talked about being habitually present and saying, “Happy present moment” to others as a manifestation of being in the moment.

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Leadership accountability challenges

Disney intersection east side
On our (Disney) Eastern border, we head North toward Magic Kingdom to go home.

Leadership accountability challenges are common.

Why?

Lack of clarity.

If i asked you and your boss to each grab a post-it note and privately write down your top three work priorities, would your list match your boss’s?

What if the two post-it note lists matched?

What’s to gain?

What if they don’t match?

What’s to lose?

Finally, do you have company-wide standard buckets of focus? For example, at Disney, we have Employee, Customer, and Business buckets. Everyone is crystal clear on this.

Additionally, we have a second level of company-wide leadership standard buckets: Technical, managerial, and behavioral accountabilities. How well do you perform your responsibilities? How well do you manage time, money, and resources? And how well do you demonstrate the desired leadership behaviors.

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Paying attention to details is a religion at Disney

Disney attention to detail
Paying attention to the smallest details is a “religion” at Disney.

Paying attention to details is a religion at Disney.

In the photo above, i spotted a concrete chip and immediately stopped Rob (we were leaving Magic Kingdom) and went on a riff about concrete.

i asked him what color concrete is when it leaves the concrete factory. His correct answer was “sidewalk grey”.

Yet you won’t find that in the Magic Kingdom.

And none of the colored concrete is painted. Why? Because when it chips, you’d notice the color difference right away.

No one thinks about concrete when they visit a Disney Themed area.

We (religiously) aim to keep it that way.

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