The vortex of change is supersonic. It’s a VUCA world – volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous – and within the chaos there are extraordinary opportunities. How do you organize yourself or your company to respond to unknowns? How resilient are you when faced with new challenges and opportunities? This KEY reflects on three known unknowns and asks you to focus on your resilience.

Click here to read about – The Three Known Unknowns. Listen to our podcast about this critical inflection point and about meeting the future with future apps.

Aviv Shahar :: Mar.29.2011 :: The Key :: No Comments »

At the end of each week you reflect on what you’ve learned and realize you are better. You’ve grown. That’s what momentum learning does. You gain new insights. Develop new capabilities. And evolve in your capacity to meet and turn challenges into opportunities. You demonstrate that the contribution and value you bring today exceeds what you were able to bring yesterday. In turn, the people in your life come to trust that you bring new insights, ideas and capabilities to the table. They know that when you are around they will continue to grow and improve. They experience you in the context of becoming better themselves. Click here to read about – momentum learning and the elixir of living.

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© Aviv Shahar

Aviv Shahar :: Mar.02.2011 :: The Key :: No Comments »

Have you noticed how a group of highly capable individuals working together as a team often produce suboptimal results? We probably all have been in these situations. They include business meetings where the conversation wanders in circles, goes off topic and fails to find practical resolutions.

If you are a team leader, you need to ask: Am I confusing my team? Framing conversations is one of the most important things you do as a leader.

Click here to read about riptides of opportunities, about redefining work and about how to unleash the power of your team.

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

The writing on the wall in the briefing room reads: “The one you don’t see will shoot you down.” This mindset was drilled into me through fighter pilot training. You must always be on the lookout and stretch to see the totality of the theater and any moving targets.  2010 was just such a year. It revealed that in business, in politics and in life, as in a dogfight, what you don’t see threatens to take you down. But 2010 also demonstrated that surprising and unpredictable events can work in your favor and can help you create breakthroughs when you respond promptly and wisely.

For us 2010 was a year of fantastic growth, development and learning. I met and worked with amazing people and great leadership teams. They taught me about commitment and passion, about creativity and vision, and about the power of collaboration and co-creation. In this KEY I share with you a two-part story that changed my life. To transform you must change the narrative. I hope to inspire you to apply these insights and strategies to change the game you play and make 2011 your best year ever. Listen to the KEY podcast here.

Aviv Shahar :: Dec.30.2010 :: The Key :: No Comments »

Hope about the future was always the central character of the American story. America was shaped by the “aspiration business” and the “future business.” But many in the US and around the world question now the future of America. In this KEY I propose the three propulsions that will regenerate America and shape the powers that will gain ascendency and leadership in the coming decades. Click here to read about the future that is being written in Bangalore, Beijing, Berlin and Boston.

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Aviv Shahar :: Dec.01.2010 :: America, The Key :: 2 Comments »

Unlike with conspiracy theories that you can do nothing about, this KEY exposes a dangerous blind spot in the White House and how it derailed a presidency. You will also discover how it relates to you and what you can do about it. But first: Have you discovered your data processing preferences? Seven out of ten managers cannot answer this question positively. Brains are wired differently. Each of your team members and each of the people in your life are wired differently. This KEY will help you focus on the decisive impact of understanding your processing preferences. As you gain this critical awareness, you will be able to optimize your communication. Discover the blind spot and what you can do about it here.

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© Aviv Shahar

Aviv Shahar :: Nov.01.2010 :: The Key :: No Comments »

The CEO behaves in a demeaning way towards his team. He realizes there is a problem and he wants to make a change. What’s the place of apology in such situations?

In this KEY, you will discover why only a few apologies work and most don’t, and the kind of apology that can help transform your engagement.
Apologies do not work because most people are not prepared to do the ‘change work’ required. Apologies can only work with assurances. A complete apology includes four parts. Read here the complete KEY.

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Aviv Shahar :: Oct.01.2010 :: The Key :: No Comments »

Too many people grind through life, vacillating from procrastination to recalcitrance. Too many people surrender to the corrupting belief that they are powerless and choose to live in resignation of the opportunity and the charge of being co-creators of their world. In this KEY, I’d like to share with you Seven Springboards that can help you reboot and find your next opportunities.  Read the KEY here. Listen to the Seven Springboards podcast below:

© Aviv Shahar

Aviv Shahar :: Sep.01.2010 :: The Key :: No Comments »

Why do some ideas and intentions get realized while others do not? Why do specific communications deliver results and other communications get stalled half way?

As a leader, you are in the business of getting results. Leadership is about facing the world as it is and opening a way forward to create and realize what is yet to be. This KEY explores the heart of the leadership challenge—transforming ideas into actuality. Read the KEY here.
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Aviv Shahar :: Aug.02.2010 :: The Key :: No Comments »

You are a leader not because of your title. You are a leader because you help the people you work with. To thrive as a leader you have to do and be four things. You have to be: Informational, Motivational, Inspirational and Transformational.

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© Aviv Shahar

Aviv Shahar :: Jul.01.2010 :: The Key :: 1 Comment »