Aviv’s Blog
To Lead is to Transform
The KEY: Your Biggest Choice Ever
We are entering the most critical period of our lives. This coming decade is perhaps the most crucial time of all times. Immense struggles everywhere indicate that Planet Earth and Humanity as a whole are experiencing a transformative change. The promise of this change is a birthing into a new time. We are all called to take a stand, to choose in small and big...
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The KEY: Your Accelerating Universe
The 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics is the inspiration for this KEY. Humans have struggled to embrace new paradigms about the world and about themselves from the beginning of time. We are now living through such a disruptive period where breakdowns and breakthroughs converge into confusing and chaotic change. But amidst dysfunction and impossibility, profound breakthroughs and system upgrades are possible. Man’s view of the...
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The KEY: Cast Your Net
Are you fully present to lead the opportunities in front of you? You must separate the essentials from the noise. Are you fully engaged in your growth opportunities right here, right now? Every season and every New Year brings in a flux of growth opportunities and challenges, and energy to address both. Each year, I begin to cast the net for the New Year in...
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The KEY: The Decision-Making Blind Spots
What crucial decisions have you recently made? Are you a clear and effective decider? In this KEY we look at the first five blind spots and mistakes people make when approaching decisions. Please print out and keep this KEY to create a conversation with your family and with your team about the decision-making blind spots. By teaching and coaching these to others you will improve...
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The KEY: Unbroken – An Improbable Odyssey
Everyone else on the flight was asleep. It’s a smart way to adjust to the time change from Seattle to Tokyo. But I could not sleep. The improbable survival story of Zamperini kept me awake. I looked outside at the distant ocean from 38,000 feet and imagined Zamperini and his pilot Phil floating on a small punctured raft, surrounded by sharks, drifting for 47 days,...
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The KEY: The 10 Wheels of Innovation
These are remarkable times. Hope and despair, triumph and defeat, light and darkness, all get closer and closer to each other. Success and failure, breakthrough and breakdown, increasingly appear just a nano-milimeter or nano-second away from each other. This KEY traces the Ten Wheels of Innovation. First we soar to the 20,000 feet view as we make the trace. Then we look at the threshold...
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The KEY: A Leader’s Priorities
How do you prioritize your time? Where do you focus your energy? These are the questions any good leader asks daily. Time, energy and focus are your three most precious assets. You create movement and results in your organization by applying energy and focus in the time you have. You lead by applying your ETF – Energy, Time and Focus. This is your most critical...
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The KEY: Your Biggest Mistake Ever – The Symmetry Trap
For some irrational, crazy reason we get hooked, even mesmerized, by the idea of symmetry and expect life to be equally symmetrical; this ruins almost everything important. There is nothing symmetrical in the real world. Even beautiful flowers are not symmetrical. Expecting relationships to be symmetrical is a current insanity. You assume what you get should be equal to what you give; the person you...
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The KEY: Three Known Unknowns
The vortex of change is supersonic. It’s a VUCA world – volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous – and within the chaos there are extraordinary opportunities. How do you organize yourself or your company to respond to unknowns? How resilient are you when faced with new challenges and opportunities? This KEY reflects on three known unknowns and asks you to focus on your resilience. Click here...
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The KEY: Momentum Learning
At the end of each week you reflect on what you’ve learned and realize you are better. You’ve grown. That’s what momentum learning does. You gain new insights. Develop new capabilities. And evolve in your capacity to meet and turn challenges into opportunities. You demonstrate that the contribution and value you bring today exceeds what you were able to bring yesterday. In turn, the people...
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