The difference between market leadership and chapter 11 is the ability to attract and retain the best people. With rapid change accelerating, leaders must develop practical strategies to recruit, develop and collaboratively engage five generations in the workplace. This has never happened before, so coalescing these generations at work in the dynamic environment ahead presents extraordinary opportunities and challenges.  Companies that are not prepared to meet these opportunities risk their viability.  In this KEY you will discover five forces shaping the future of work.

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Aviv Shahar :: Feb.01.2012 :: The Key :: No Comments »

The top lesson I propose you take forward into 2012 is to be surprised by nothing. Always expect the best and believe in possibilities, but be prepared for any eventuality, wild card and setback. Anything and everything you assume is stable and safe may not be. Look at the world with new eyes. In the next five years there will be very few institutions and structures, if any, that will be left unchanged. Read more about my top 5 for 2012 here.

Aviv Shahar :: Jan.02.2012 :: The Key :: No Comments »

We are entering the most critical period of our lives. This coming decade is perhaps the most crucial time of all times. Immense struggles everywhere indicate that Planet Earth and Humanity as a whole are experiencing a transformative change. The promise of this change is a birthing into a new time. We are all called to take a stand, to choose in small and big ways to make a difference. Your biggest choice ever defines you as a leader. The default option chosen by most is easy but dangerous. If ever there was an important resolution to make, this is it. Click here to discover your biggest choice ever.

Aviv Shahar :: Nov.30.2011 :: The Key :: No Comments »

The 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics is the inspiration for this KEY.  Humans have struggled to embrace new paradigms about the world and about themselves from the beginning of time. We are now living through such a disruptive period where breakdowns and breakthroughs converge into confusing and chaotic change. But amidst dysfunction and impossibility, profound breakthroughs and system upgrades are possible.

Man’s view of the universe is a reflection of man’s view of himself. Scientists now believe the Universe is pumping extra space between celestial bodies at an accelerated rate. In this KEY we explore the breakthrough implications of an accelerating Universe. Once you embrace this new paradigm and way of looking at the world, just about everything gets redefined, including the meaning of work, creativity and innovation. Click here to discover the shocking realization of the accelerating Universe and how it can transform your view of almost everything.

Aviv Shahar :: Nov.01.2011 :: The Key :: No Comments »

Are you fully present to lead the opportunities in front of you? You must separate the essentials from the noise. Are you fully engaged in your growth opportunities right here, right now?

Every season and every New Year brings in a flux of growth opportunities and challenges, and energy to address both. Each year, I begin to cast the net for the New Year in October. It’s a great time to focus, reflect, explore ideas, and deliberate on options.

Click here to learn about the three speeds of your mind, the three horizons and how to work on your vision and planning cast up.

Aviv Shahar :: Sep.26.2011 :: The Key :: No Comments »

What crucial decisions have you recently made? Are you a clear and effective decider?

In this KEY we look at the first five blind spots and mistakes people make when approaching decisions. Please print out and keep this KEY to create a conversation with your family and with your team about the decision-making blind spots. By teaching and coaching these to others you will improve your own decision-making mastery. Click here to read about the five blind spots.

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Aviv Shahar :: Aug.30.2011 :: The Key :: No Comments »

Everyone else on the flight was asleep. It’s a smart way to adjust to the time change from Seattle to Tokyo. But I could not sleep. The improbable survival story of Zamperini kept me awake. I looked outside at the distant ocean from 38,000 feet and imagined Zamperini and his pilot Phil floating on a small punctured raft, surrounded by sharks, drifting for 47 days, covering 2000 miles with no food or water. If ever there was a description of impossibility, this was it. Read here more about what I learned from this incredible story.

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Aviv Shahar :: Jul.28.2011 :: The Key :: No Comments »

These are remarkable times. Hope and despair, triumph and defeat, light and darkness, all get closer and closer to each other. Success and failure, breakthrough and breakdown, increasingly appear just a nano-milimeter or nano-second away from each other. This KEY traces the Ten Wheels of Innovation. First we soar to the 20,000 feet view as we make the trace. Then we look at the threshold of the next big game-changing innovation.

Discovery and innovation follow and come out of man’s deepest impulses. There are two primary impulses that drive the wheels of innovation:
1.    The desire for increased mobility – the freedom impulse.
2.    The desire for increased connectivity – the connection impulse.

Click here to read about The 10 Wheels of Innovation.

Aviv Shahar :: Jun.28.2011 :: The Key :: No Comments »

How do you prioritize your time? Where do you focus your energy? These are the questions any good leader asks daily. Time, energy and focus are your three most precious assets. You create movement and results in your organization by applying energy and focus in the time you have. You lead by applying your ETF – Energy, Time and Focus. This is your most critical leadership choice and decision, how do you allocate these precious assets? Click here to read more about leading by demonstrating your priorities.

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Aviv Shahar :: May.21.2011 :: The Key :: No Comments »

For some irrational, crazy reason we get hooked, even mesmerized, by the idea of symmetry and expect life to be equally symmetrical; this ruins almost everything important. There is nothing symmetrical in the real world. Even beautiful flowers are not symmetrical. Expecting relationships to be symmetrical is a current insanity. You assume what you get should be equal to what you give; the person you love would love you back in a symmetrical way. Click here to read more about The Symmetry Trap, love and the The Newtonian obsession and the Karl Marx Fallacy.

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Aviv Shahar :: Apr.28.2011 :: The Key :: No Comments »