The art of living is in realizing your purpose and leveraging the opportunities presented to you. To be fully alive is to recognize and work toward manifesting the complete renaissance person you are capable of being. Yet too many people surrender or refuse to embrace the ability to live as fully as possible by succumbing to the trap of the shortfall syndrome. This insidious condition...
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In this key we will reflect on the second of these three imperatives for success and identify questions you must address about the future to build your business and leverage your opportunities. Imperative of the future What is it? In this aspect of your business, you first identify the desired picture of the future, including the new outcomes that it makes possible. You then work...
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In most of our strategy and innovation workshops with executive teams, I begin by asking participants to reflect and capture learning from recent successes and challenges. To facilitate the entry into the learning zone, I ask them to be forensic about their learning. By that I mean being specific, concrete, and penetratingly substantive. Read more here. © Aviv Shahar
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Successful leaders are adept at addressing both tactical and strategic aspects of their business. More specifically, I challenge my clients to define clearly their imperatives. To create and sustain forward momentum, leaders must work concurrently on three aspects of their business: its present, its future, and its resources and capabilities. These are the three imperatives for business success. In this key we will reflect on...
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Successful leaders have a talent for discerning the lessons presented in everyday life. They take the time to look around them, notice what is happening, then ask themselves what they can learn from those observations. In this key we will reflect on how a lesson learned at the beach can have a profound impact on your business as well as in your personal life. ©...
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Typically, corporate executives call me when they have goals that include making a major impact on their business success by effecting transformational change in their organization. In today’s competitive environment, a senior leader’s job is to ensure that his/her teams have the capacity to address challenges proactively, and to take advantage of opportunities posed by a world in which disruptive technologies, new business models, economic...
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The point of leadership is to produce results through other people. You lead to create new outcomes that enable a desired future through the participative work of others. In this key you will discover three critical success factors to building dynamic high-functioning teams. © Aviv Shahar
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Do you ever feel as though you have parachuted onto an alien terrain? Do you ever get the feeling, captured by Einstein, who said, “A thought that makes me hazy: Am I or are the others crazy?” It’s not just the crazies. With escalating geopolitical, economic, and technological trends all around, you get the sense that we are entering a new phase in planetary and...
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You are a leader because you help the people you work with, not because of your title. You are a leader because you face the world as it is and help to open a way forward for yourself and others to create what is yet to be. Here are four other characteristics of a leader. © Aviv Shahar
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In Three Resilience Starters I shared with you Don’s excitement about discovering his resilient profile. I suggested that you build a practice of resilience to improve every aspect of your life and work. Here are four additional resilience vitamins to kindle a resilience practice with your teams and family. © Aviv Shahar
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