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The Key: Your WOO (Window of Opportunity)
What opportunity are you focused on right now? Opportunities come through windows. Your window of opportunity, and how you respond to it, define your results and where you get to play. This Key will help you unlock your Window of Opportunity (WOO). We explore what a WOO (window of opportunity) is and how it defines your potential to succeed, lead and shape outcomes. Read the...
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The Key: 10 Practices of Outstanding Professionals
I recently met with the Utrip team. Utrip is working to solve the travel planning challenge. They hope to remove the headache from exploring Paris, London and Rome and turn planning into an enjoyable experience of discovery. This is a challenge that Expedia, Travelocity, Kayak and Trip Advisor failed to solve. Imagine you have 10 days and you want to explore two or three cities...
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The Key: My Learning Big Bang
Occasionally, someone will ask me how I got to do the work I do with executive teams, helping them accelerate learning and innovation and create breakthrough results. In this Key I am going to share with you how it all began — my Learning Big Bang moment. The point is that any moment, including what may appear as a funny or casual or even insulting...
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The Key: What You Do At Work
“What do you do at work?” I asked the leadership team at the beginning of our strategy workshop. This executive team is responsible for an organization of 14,000 people, and representatives came to the workshop from six countries on all continents. At first, they looked surprised, as if saying: “What do you mean, What do we do at work?” Of course, we do our job....
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The KEY: Spring Reboot 2013
How is your 2013 going? Are you coming up short on your hopes? Or exceeding your expectations? I am writing this on a flight across the pacific. At 38,000 feet I get into the zone. And I am going to treat myself with some reflective thoughts over dinner. At this point in the game, reflecting is a form of celebration and how I choose to...
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The KEY: Executive Presence
If you are not developing as a person and a leader, you run the risk of becoming stale and losing interest. In this KEY we focus on executive presence. This executive development learning emerged in my meeting with a top talent group of highly committed managers. Discover how you develop executive presence. © Aviv Shahar
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The KEY: The Other Side of Unintended Consequences
What is the other side of unintended consequences? Here is how Rafael puts it. The Vietnam War was terrible. We lost many lives. But very few people know that many thousands of people are saved each year because of what we learned in Vietnam. Emergency medicine was transformed as a result of the harsh learning laboratory of Vietnam. What are your positive and surprising unintended...
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The KEY: Your Three-Story House
To be strategic and innovative you must work and think at three levels. Imagine that on each floor of your metaphoric three-story house you do a different kind of work. Most people confine themselves to the ground floor. Some people climb to the second floor. And then, very rarely, some people make it to the third floor. Read here about what takes place at these...
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The KEY: You Can Be a Messiah, Seriously
The focus of this KEY is a simple action you can take to change your world. As we look forward to a new year, we can each choose to shape in positive ways our experiences. How do you shape your world? What provides you power to shape your world? In this Key we look at these questions and power afforded to you because you are...
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The KEY: What makes a successful executive standout?
The thrill of independent consulting is that I get to work with people who are the best in the world in what they do, the Michael Phelps and Missy Franklin of their fields. In this KEY I bring you a simple and profound insight. You will discover what makes successful executive standout. Read here about the four primary characteristics I’ve observed with executives who succeed...
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