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.

Day 7 GIL, work

16-second video: He’s following us.
Mountain goat
He followed us. We did not pursue this closeness.
40-second video: Baby goat. More location context.
9-second video: Disney 101, make eye contact and smile.

The best way to tell others how to work is through your leadership behaviors, not your leadership intentions.

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Day 6 GIL, work

30-second video: Scanning the horizon (for first time in 2024) from Comeau Pass.
Two people walking across a glacier
USGS. United States Geological Survey. Measuring the glacier. We took their spots after they walked out onto the glacier.
Glacier
Sperry Glacier. Snow Angel.
Woman standing next to a glacier
We ate our Chalet-provided brown-bag lunch here.
Person sitting in the mountains, staring out at the landscape
Our lunch ‘table’ offers stunning views.
Three people in the mountains
To get from where Cheryl is (at our ‘lunch table’) to where we are is challenging.
Three people next to Glacier
We met halfway between the ‘lunch table’ and the glacier to snap this pic.
19-second video: Inside Out 2 new characters mark our 2024 visits.
24-second video: The snow angel is defined by the ‘wings’. Unable to make the ‘legs’ for a variety of logistical reasons.

Many inspiring leaders prosper not by deconstructing intricate complexities but by exploiting unfamiliar simplicities.

And it is a great leader who inspires others to prosper similarly.

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Day 5 GIL, work

15-second video: What’s it like hiking in Glacier? Sometimes it’s like this.
12-second video: Never expected a shared balcony. Such a bonus.
2-second video: After checking in, we returned to the dining hall to play Dominion before dinner.

Organizations that thrive don’t just intelligently communicate, they intentionally design their culture using language and symbols, traits and behaviors, heritage and traditions, and shared leadership values to architect world-class customer service behavior.

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Day 4 GIL, work

Small RV park cabin
Some context to our Culdesac.

You lie in the bed you make.

A metaphor for everything.

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Day 3 GIL, work

Mountains
It’s still astounds me after all the pictures i took from the Apgar Lookout fire tower that we never honed in Sperry Chalet.

When you are not it a hurry, Magic happens.

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