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To Lead is to Transform
Three Steps to Developing Dynamic Teams
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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10 Practices to Uplift Yourself
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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Four Characteristics of a Leader
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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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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