Author: jeff noel

Retired Disney Institute Keynote Speaker and Prolific Blogger. Five daily, differently-themed personal blogs (about life's 5 big choices) on five interconnected sites.

March 31, 2025, work

three adults next to cars
Photo: Cheryl, our ‘Relationship manager’, the post-it note ‘author’. Before our offer, i spent an hour or so building the context for the simple post-it note price. Photo taken near 6:00pm.

Made a friend.

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Grit, at work

Handwritten Post-it note
When you process this from an optimistic (minus the word ‘undesired’) karma, great. When you approach it from the opposite (using the word ‘undesired’), it feels compellingly critical.

Grit is thinking about (and implementing) intentional, yet seemingly insignificant things when you’d rather not.

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Leveling up, work

Disney's Space Mountain at night
Used to park here (where i’m standing to take this pic) when i worked at Disney’s Contemporary Resort from 1985-1990.
Mickey Mouse design with flower bed
Walking by at eye level it’s easy to miss this ‘hidden Mickey’. But from the western Main Building rooms, it’s stunning.
view from Disney's Contemporary Resort Hotel at night
Brought my client here last week…
view from Disney's Contemporary Resort Hotel at night
Say “cheese”.
view from Disney's Contemporary Resort Hotel at sunrise
Same spot as the previous photo, simply doing a 180.

Never kept track.

Positive reinforcement.

Gifting others with it.

What was different last week is the audience.

All my positive reinforcement went to new people. A combo of Disney and Disney Institute Cast Members and my client’s special team he brought to Disney Institute.

The newness of the audience facilitated daily, marginal leveling up. Why? Because many were people i was meeting for the first time.

Note: The exception is the CEO.

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Disney Institute executive resource debrief, work

hotel tv screen
Five days ago.
group dinner
Five days ago, Group arrival day. Dinner at Disney Springs.
disney hotel room bed
Pixar Incredibles themed room.
Disney Institute keynote speaker
Four days ago. Day one of three at Disney Institute.
Disney Institute classroom
Four days ago. Disney Institute ‘Day one” of three.

Four days ago. “Opening Day” of a three day experience.

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Disney Institute Leadership Excellence, work

Disney speaker jeff noel
My final day. October 31, 2014. Walking to work.

Disney Institute class…

Disney’s Approach to Leadership Excellence.

Thesis statement…

We judge ourselves on our intentions, others judge us on our behaviors.

We begin our content with a profoundly simple yet simply profound leadership catalyst…

Vision.

What’s the difference between a vision and a vision statement?

Answer: Your future.

Next, we dive into Involvement, Accountability, Commitment.

Context: Involvement is training and development. Two entirely different genres. Most people think “training and development” is a fancy phrase meaning one thing. It’s two words meaning entirely different things.

Also, Accountability focuses on clarity and simplicity. Clarity is power. Simplicity is operational genius.

Bonus: The three-legged stool is the first filter. Leadership is the second.

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