Make your learning compelling. Make it compelling for you. You are the first listener and student of your teachings. When you listen well, the rest of the world wants to come and listen too. A great Rabi once said “we tell stories to our children to put them to sleep. We tell stories to adults to wake them up.” In our leadership seminars and retreats...
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I am often asked how to overcome fear. Fear is probably the strongest, most intense of all behavioral triggers. We conjure up fears and react to them. Fears govern behavior in relationships, in career choices, in trading and investment, and in the way people express their views and feelings. There are four responses to fear: 1. Flight – fear reflex to run away 2. Fight...
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That’s right. Do not believe the gray myth of the Pacific Northwest. It is not just rain and gray here year round. Here are late October shots in Woodinville by the Sammamish River. When you live amidst beauty, stop a moment to take notice. © Aviv Shahar
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In their BusinessWeek What Change Agents Are Made Of, Jack & Suzie Welch focus on four traits: power, vision, bravery, and support. The Welchway says that “…change is made by people with some sort of authority. It’s driven by managers who have a platform to advocate for a new direction and the ability to hire, promote, and reward those who embrace it. Change agents in...
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The 90/10 rule shows up in a variety of ways in all fields of life. In money management and investment the 90/10 rule says that—over long periods of time (think your lifetime or 100 years) you will come out on top 90% of the time by following conventional wisdom, known also as the wisdom of the crowd. It follows that in the other 10% of...
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Why do so many relationships hit a brick wall? Too many people insist on holding onto frozen dreams instead of realizing that a relationship is a learning journey. You work at it. You work at it hard and you work at it soft and you make discovery, learning and growing central to your relationship. You listen to each other and you listen to yourself. You...
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The greatest tax increase is neither in McCain’s programs, nor in Obama’s plans. The greatest tax increase is in the breakdown of communication and civil discourse, the breakdown of trust and the ability to work through differences to find optimal solutions. Breakdown of trust and leadership is going to cost individuals, families, organizations and the economy as a whole, and the consequences will be greater...
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To the Toronto Blue Belt Top Talent participants – Thank you for the opportunity to work together and be on this discovery journey with you. Here are my notes from our last mornings briefing: 1. You are the most important person in this world! The people you serve and work for, the people you support and help, the people to whom you bring a smile...
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A couple goes to the theater. Ten minutes into the show they know that it is a bad movie but neither of them is prepared to admit it. Fifteen minutes later one of them says: “it’s a bad movie. Shall we leave?” The other replies: “Why should we lose three times? First we paid, second it’s a bad movie and now you want us to...
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Tracy Chapman sings “There is fiction in the space between.” I disagree and beg to differ. There is a lot more than fiction in the space between. Creativity and innovation appear in the space between. Peace and quiet are found in the space between In the space between you can listen and hear A truth and a meaning you can reconcile. There is communion, serenity...
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