Aviv’s Blog
To Lead is to Transform
The KEY: Thrive in the New Normal – The First Five Commandments
Struggle is the tension between where you are now and where you desire to be. If you experience this tension, it means you are alive. Many of the managers I coach and interact with are experiencing struggle at this time. To make the most out of your challenges and opportunities you need to engage 10 thriving practices. This KEY will help you thrive in the...
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The KEY: At the Top and Empty
Don was a brilliant executive. He was analytical, disciplined and focused, and he rallied his team to achieve great results. In Don’s mind, his fantastic and steady achievements were supposed to lead directly to the corner office… This KEY is about the crisis at the top. It is also a hopeful message because the beauty of life is that you can make a course correction....
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The KEY: The Leader-Coach – What Coaching Schools Will Not Teach You
Learning coaching techniques, frameworks and methodologies will make you a better and more versatile leader. As a leader-coach you can bring a wider range of tools to the coaching engagement. But there is an essential capacity and quality you see in truly exceptional coaches that no coaching school will teach you and no institution can give you. Discover this essential quality and unleash your power...
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The KEY: This Is Your Decade
In this KEY I share with you my “This Is Your Decade” letter to Edan Shahar. I hope it inspires you to share your thoughts and feelings with your sons and daughters, or with other young people in your circle. Edan edits the KEY letters and he continues to challenge me to clarify and simplify my message. ***** Dear Edan, This is your decade. You...
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The KEY: Acts of Kindness
As this year comes to a close and a new year and decade begin, we wish you all the good things you worked for and wish for yourself. Living is the greatest gift there is. There is no owner manual. You write your own as you proceed. We wish for you that the next chapter you write is as adventurous and fulfilling as you hope...
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The KEY: A Decade Of Transformation – Who Will You Be?
A new decade is here, just a few weeks away. Extraordinary! Is time speeding up? Or is it just me? This Key is about “Who will you be?” in this threshold decade. The run up to 2020 is likely to be relentless, surprising…with complex challenges and hopeful breakthroughs. Our message is twofold: Start as you intend to go on. Be in 2010 the greater person...
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The KEY: The Ten Faces of Leadership
Discover the Ten Faces of Leadership and reflect on your leadership strengths. Identify the most critical leadership capacities you must now focus on and exercise. Lead your teams to create the future. Leadership is situational. The requirements of each situation are unique. Needs and opportunities change and are based on circumstance. Great leaders are adaptive and versatile – they instinctively assess the requirements of the...
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The KEY: Discover Your Peak Productivity Zone
This KEY may shock you. It carries both good and bad news. Are you expressing your true talent? Are you as effective and productive as you can be? Your productivity zone is specific. To make the most of it you need to pay careful attention. I am not Malcolm Gladwell; but if I were, this could easily be the subject of my next book. To...
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The KEY: Staying Fluid
Are you prepared for opportunities? This Key is about the critical state you must maintain to be viable and able to respond in your business and in your life. ‘Smart’ means knowing what to do. ‘Wisdom’ is having your various roles and experiences inform and instruct each other. If you are not liquid, you are out of business. Water can freeze and it can boil....
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The KEY: Four Ways To Grow
What do Vienna and the Silicon Valley have in common? What do Rembrandt and Warren Buffet have in common? In this KEY we answer these questions plus another one posted on our blog – a truly $64,000 question – one of the biggest questions of all times: How does one grow oneself? We explore the four ways you can grow and offer six questions to...
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