Category: Professionally Speaking

Monty Python Creativity

Disney keynote speaker quote
‘Tis true.

The road to excellence has no finish line.

dad

John Cleese, a comedic genius on Monty Python gave a 1991 speech on how to be more creative. It’s 36 minutes and is here.

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American opportunity

Jeff Noel’s home office bookshelf
The holy grail according to me. Never apologize for sounding like a broken record. It’s called a passionate vision.
Repetition is the mother of all learning. Maybe science can prove it. Bottomline, i need no proof except the proof of my life.

Repetition is the mother of all learning.

dad

Had a science teacher in 10th grade (my school district’s high school was 10th thru 12th). Freshmen were considered “Junior High” with the 8th-graders.

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Excel reprise

Disney parking lot row marker
Served a lifetime. Still enjoy frequent visits. Yesterday. In case you can’t place the parking lot, it’s Epcot’s.

You know what is a good and decent job/purpose?

Helping leaders keep promises.

This is a different way of reflecting on what my core strength/product is.

Note: This photo is 24 hours old.

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Show and tell?

Disney keynote speaker Jeff Noel on stage with two audience members
You can talk the insight or you can show them the insight. Here i am showing the 400-person audience the insight about ‘displaying appropriate body language’. Invited two audience volunteers onstage to help.

Chief of Staff (Walt & Roy vibe)…CTO (Chief Thinking Officer)

Assumptions:

  1. Finally feel like CEO (congrats)
  2. Enormous growth (personal ambition)
  3. Cabinet rebuild (bench health?)

Critical, timeless truths:

  1. Vision-less CEO’s are unheard of
  2. Growth dilutes culture
  3. Culture = organizational health-grade

Your coaching priorities:

  1. Push you to .think .differently
  2. Be a sounding board
  3. Be a better leader

Tactics:

  • Monthly onsite
  • Weekly calls
  • CIP Fanatics

SWOT:

Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats (to be determined)

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Suffering at work

small yellow flower
First glance we’ve been trained to see the flower. What if we train ourselves to see the shadow?
man playing chess
Playing chess here during each Campus visit is a tradition.

Suffering at work?

When work is transactional, everyone suffers.

To counter the temptation, over-focus where you used to under-focus or ignore…

And it may take years or decades to learn to:

  • Live within your means
  • Invest early (age 20-30) to enjoy the magic of doubling
  • Make your get-to-do greater than your have-to-do
  • Discover what you were born to do
  • Balance mind, body, spirit, work, & home
  • Teach others

Transactional work hides the artist within.

The world needs artists. You need and want to be an artist.

We all do.

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