Half Full Is Easy

I strive to walk my talk and engage in learning opportunities wherever I go. Getting my hair cut at Hair Masters one day presented an opportunity. In this Key you will find the half full insight that showed up for me as I was getting my haircut. © Aviv Shahar

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7 Realizations About Your Personal Growth

In Your Three-Story House I suggested that in each of the levels you do a different kind of work: The ground floor is where you work in the business. On the second floor you work on the business. You work in the business to serve your clients. You work on the business to improve the business operation. The third floor is where you work on...

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The Story You Bring To Life

What is the story you create? How do you engage your people to connect the dots and bring to life a shared story? As a leader you must cultivate curiosity and empathy in your people to engage their imagination for creating your organization’s future. In this Key, I share with you what a passionate tour-guide taught me about the qualities of curiosity and empathy. ©...

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Three Resilience Starters

Setbacks and challenges are part of life. We all experience them. The resilience mindset is that you are not defined by setbacks or challenges. You are defined by how you choose to respond and the growth journey you create as a result. In the decades of helping leaders all around the world realize their vision and develop new futures, I have come to see that...

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Five lessons from Doctor Ocean

I have traveled extensively this winter both internationally and domestically. The first thing I do upon my return home to Florida is to visit Doctor Ocean. I am disciplined about this because Doctor Ocean is the best and most caring, loving, and powerful Doctor. Whatever condition I am in, however tired I may be, Doctor Ocean immediately gets to work on reviving and renewing me....

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Takeoff Velocity

In my Learning Big Bang and then in Your Window of Opportunity, I shared with you how I discovered and developed the ‘opportunity window’ insight. Opportunities come through windows. Your window of opportunity, and how you respond to it, define where you get to play and the outcomes you experience. Today we focus on what is arguably the most prevalent blind spot in strategy deployment,...

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The “What’s Next” Ladder

You need to listen to what you say to find out what’s going on. New insights often show up in your conversation, if you are paying attention. In this KEY I will share one such conversation. You will discover a powerful tool to build your mental prowess and develop framing skills with the conversational bungee-jump exercise. Read more here © Aviv Shahar

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The Secret of Relationships

What writes the best stories? In a word: life. Life most certainly creates and writes the best conversations and the best stories. In this KEY I bring you a conversation I had with Sara around the dinner table. You will discover the secret to long-lasting and enriching relationships. We’ve been together for 35 years. Read more here © Aviv Shahar

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11 Points About Your Confidence

How can you create the future if you haven’t been there? How can you be confident in the face of what you don’t know? Naturally, since the focus of my work is helping leaders create new futures for their businesses and organizations, I am asked these questions. Here are 11 points I discovered about confidence. © Aviv Shahar

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Mindful Execution

We work with some of the most successful leaders in the corporate world around the globe. These executives inspire me with their creativity, agility, and sense of vision. They demonstrate resilience, purposeful focus, clarity, and positive confidence. I’d like to share with you two unifying principles that I’ve observed these leaders demonstrate. They are at the foundation of the leaders’ competencies and success. Read more...

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