Aviv’s Blog
To Lead is to Transform
Courage, Beauty, Transcendence
Greatness is found in embracing our limitations and then transcending them. This is what defines courage and where beauty is to be found. This amazing dance is inspirational in that it shows each of us that we have the ability to not only overcome our limitations but lift others up by our example. © Aviv Shahar
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Taipei Trip – A Cameo Collection
1. I meet the first EVA airline representative and she makes me smile. I board the plane and the flight attendants each welcome me with a smile, one by one. It’s my first trip across the Pacific. I decide to pay attention to the insights that turn up. I sense that the desire to delight customers has a unique expression and depth in the Chinese...
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The Lake Is Back
(My mother wrote to me that this blog is becoming too sophisticated that it’s a struggle for her to read it. My guess is that she meant she cannot feel me or my thought process in what she reads here. Mother, this post is for you!) We are back in Real de Chapala near Guadalajara, Mexico to teach the Keys2Greatness seminar. Coming here from Seattle...
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What Is Your Power?
These are snapshots of Mount Rainier as my plane was taking off from SeaTac airport. I usually prefer to sit by the aisle but on the flight to Houston last week I sat in the left window seat and took my digital camera. Mount Rainier makes me wonder about latent power… Power that has not been applied and is being contained has a greater impact...
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Share Your Blessings
I was sitting at the best table in the restaurant on the 39th floor. Something special had happened at this week’s seminar and I decided to relax and celebrate the free evening before getting back home in the morning. For five days we had worked hard with a group of 12 executives. They all have had a great experience in this seminar. Each executive had...
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Priests & Firefighters – What Do They Have In Common
Questions: What do Priests and Firefighters have in common? Answer: They both deal in matters of higher intervention, and they both rush in where angels fear to tread. Priests try to light a fire in the house and firefighters try to put it out. Well, perhaps. The right answer though is that they both made the top of TIME’s list of the happiest people by...
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Why Do People Stop Dreaming?
This post was triggered after reading the Cool Friend interview with Matthew Kelly on Tom Peters! I found Kelly’s reply to the question of why people stop dreaming incomplete and posted a comment. Upon further reflection I found my own comment also incomplete and added the following: “A person without a dream is like a bird without wings”. “Take a man away from his dreams...
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“Celebrit(y)-ocracy” Or Celebrating Life That Is The Question
A central theme in the American experiment was striving for liberty and freedom. A vital component of this was the departure from the Monarchy and the Aristocratic society in favor of a Meritocracy. The deeper dimension of this new aspiration was the promise of discovering the royal aspect of human life inside each person’s pursuit of higher expression and opportunity. This journey was in large...
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Who Will Water The Trees?
My wife, Sara shared with me the following story she heard from H, a friend who returned from India where she visited a village she had first stayed in 30 years ago: “I went to India to see how things had changed in the village I visited in the 70s. Back then I went with a volunteer organization to help an undeveloped village. Our mission...
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