Category Archives: The Key

Nov 6, 2015

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

Jul 6, 2015

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

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...

May 1, 2015

What Is Your Predetermined Pilot Response

Spontaneity works well for the well prepared. As a leader you must be prepared to respond. You must be ready to communicate what’s important and demonstrate your values. In certain situations, you must have a chosen predetermined behavior and response. I was first introduced to the power of predetermined and programmed response in the fighter pilot course of the Israeli Air Force. My air force...

Apr 2, 2015

What Business are you in?

Powerful questions are perennially important. When you keep returning to them to reflect on new meanings they reveal, you are rewarded with fresh insights that help you reimagine and reinvent what you do. Powerful questions help you reframe your thinking, and transform the value you create for the people you serve. “What business are you in?” For successful leaders, reflecting on Peter Drucker’s famous powerful...

Nov 10, 2014

The Key: What Tim Cook Can Teach You

Here are eleven quotes in Tim Cook’s own words. In order to provoke your thinking and introspective reflection I inserted key questions below each quote. I encourage you to think about these questions and to add your own reflections. You can also use these questions to create discussions with your team. © Aviv Shahar

The Key: Are You Creating Collective Stupidity or Collective Breakthroughs?

Here is a question for you: Twenty years into the coaching revolution, why do we see so many sub-optimal teams that produce collective stupidity instead of collective wisdom and breakthroughs? Read more here © Aviv Shahar

Aug 14, 2014

The KEY: World Cup Innovation Lesson

What can we learn from Germany’s winning the World Cup? How are these insights relevant to your organization’s innovation strategy? Successful innovation requires resilience, enthusiasm, the commitment of resources, a disciplined process, and the best minds of your organization working together and having conversations at a whole new level. The German team demonstrated a systems approach to its matches. Its members brought depth, focus, selfless...

The KEY: Lesson from the Israeli Air Force – Start Talking to Yourself

The Israeli Air Force discovered one of the best training methodologies I have ever encountered. In this KEY you will learn more about what I discovered during my fighter pilot course: talking out loud can make you more efficient. It can even save your life. Read the Key here. © Aviv Shahar

Jun 9, 2014

The Triangle of Change

You just landed in the executive chair, the role you’ve desired. Now you must realize your window of opportunity. Where to begin? How do you rally your new team to make critical changes and actualize your vision? This was the situation Ron found himself. When he earned the executive position he had imagined for years, he knew he needed to take action immediately. In this...