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17 Pivots for Your Spring Reboot
From my experience and that of many of my clients, this year is showing itself to be a robust ride filled with surprises. Have you noticed that challenges and opportunities show up together? If you feel blindsided or out of rhythm, now is a great time for a reboot. If you feel fatigued or uncertain, try a change in direction or behavior. If you are...
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Winning a Dogfight in The Air
In this Key I am going to share with you a focusing practice. This practice saved my life and it can save your life too, not just in flight, but in business and at work. Life is not a dogfight. There is a lot more to living and working than a fight between two opposing sides. Many situations are not a zero sum game, where...
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My Answer to Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella
In his compelling interview with Adam Bryant of the New York Times, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella framed the ultimate game-changing question but left it unanswered. The question Nadella asked is: “How do you create that self-organizing capability to drive innovation and be focused?” Here is my answer to Nadella’s captivating question. © Aviv Shahar
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The KEY: The Seventh Fisherman
In this KEY I share with you what I learned by observing a group of fishermen: What attracts the fish? Why some are successful and others not? Read about the three lessons I have learned from observing the seventh fisherman here. © Aviv Shahar
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The KEY: The Coming Boom
This winter I am again catching waves in the ocean. Since the beginning of time, the ocean has been the ultimate metaphor. With its undercurrents, riptides, waves and tsunamis, it is a metaphor for the market, the economy, and for just about anything else in life. Swimming against the current is counterproductive. Success comes when you go with the current and catch the waves. Most...
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A New Year and Three Books
Every success and accomplishment is made possible by many people. There is no success or accomplishment that begins and ends with only you. We all are successful because others enabled our efforts. There are those who trust us; those who challenge us to be better and more creative; those who give us a chance to grow; others who believe in us with no reservations; some...
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Breakthrough Collaboration
Most of the companies we help have global teams. They need to collaborate across time zones, cultural differences, accent and language difficulties, and often across competing agendas. If they don’t collaborate they inhibit efficiency, curtail effectiveness and add significant cost to the company’s bottom line. In this Key you will discover the three critical elements that are absolutely essential to develop breakthrough collaboration. Read about...
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The Key: Opportunities Have Expiration Dates
In Your Window of Opportunity, I shared with you how I stumbled upon the window of opportunity insight. In this KEY we look at this again because we often don’t recognize that opportunities show up inside a window. And most opportunities have expiration dates. What do we mean when we say that opportunities have expiration dates? Read on to find out. © Aviv Shahar
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Innovation Culture Makes Innovative People
All leading companies face a stark choice: either try to catch up with change, or lead the change. Leadership is not certain. In fact, more often than not, leadership is fleeting. Kodak, Blackberry and Nokia are three recent examples. If your organization is not innovating and creating the trend that shapes the environment, you play catch-up and struggle to cope with the side effects of...
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The Key – Prepare For Success
In this Key we use “The Shawshank Insight” to reflect on the fear of attainment and to ask: Are you preparing for success? For many, the one fear more crippling than the fear of failure is the fear of success. A setback will require someone to take responsibility—which means to remediate and resolve the challenges the failure brings and then extract learning. Success, on the...
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