Aviv’s Blog
To Lead is to Transform
The KEY: Can You Turn Up The Lights?
Dear Leader, This Key describes the blind spot of locking yourself into your own perspective. Paradigm blindness can distort your view of reality, causing you to believe in what you see to the exclusion of other viewpoints. It was late afternoon as we lined up on the runway for the last flight of the day. Practicing war games made for long, intense training days and...
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The KEY: Wasting Failure, What’s The Use of A Broken Tree?
This KEY will help you find out what the “failure” blind spot is, and how you can use it to help your team members realize their fullest potential. What have you done with your recent successes and triumphs? How have you used and celebrated them? What have you done with your failures and setbacks? Have you used them to learn and build toward success? Many...
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The KEY: The Power of Meaning
This Key is about the power of meaning. Can you remember an age when you used to wonder for hours about the meaning of things? These wonderings inspired you to discover and find out more. This was the impulse of consciousness awakening and it propelled you to search for meaning and ask even more questions. Later this impulse was re-directed to achieving, finding success, and...
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The KEY: A Clear and Present Danger
This Key points to a clear and present danger. There are probably more problems and ailments caused by this blind spot than by any other issue. Your success and well-being can be seriously hampered by this insidious blind spot and freeing yourself from it can amount to finding a new beginning and giving yourself a second life. This has to make the top of your...
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The KEY: What Is Your Confabulated Duck?
Dear Leader, This Key is about what I learned from an embarrassing moment. It is about a trap we may fall into when strategizing, communicating and making investment decisions. In fact it is a trap you may fall into daily in any aspect of your life. It’s called the trap of confabulation. Confabulation is the ability, or even the tendency of the brain to make...
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The KEY: The Secret of “Bull Markets” for Great Relationships and Renowned Customer Service
Dear Leader, In a recent leadership summit I asked the participants this question: What defines a ‘bull market’? As this was not a Wall Street firm the managers looked surprised and eventually someone said: “I thought we were in a leadership meeting not in a seminar about investing. What does a ‘bull market’ have to do with the leadership and personal development conversation we were...
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The KEY: The Most Powerful Word In The World
Dear Leader, This KEY explores the most powerful word in the dictionary. Which word is it? Which is the most powerful word in the world? Write down your answer before you read on. Don’t cheat! What if you knew that this one word can change lives? That your life and the lives of the people around you would be changed with practicing and using this...
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The KEY: It’s Not What You Do
This Key is about a subtle blind spot that sabotaged Jim and many other high performers. Unlock this insight and set yourself free to discover your leadership path. Jim has been successful at launching his career and it’s gone well. He quickly became known for his ability to get things done and for taking on one responsibility after another. Jim became one of his company’s...
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The KEY: Three Things You Did Not Learn In School
This Key explores three vital skills you did not learn in school and had to discover for yourself. Failing to master these skills brings more strife and pain than anything else. Proficiency in these three skills opens the door to tremendous well being and to actualizing your goals and realizing your hopes. As a parent, know that your children will need to discover these three...
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The KEY: Happiness Matters!
This Key helps you re-discover happiness with new eyes. Take a few moments to reflect on the 20 elements that lead to a happy and actualized life. Discover how you can help the people who work with you, your friends and family to be happier and which of these elements you might want to focus on for yourself. The Elements of Happiness Are you surrounded...
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