Create New Futures with Aviv Shahar
b'Aviv Shahar is founder and president of Aviv Consulting, a strategic innovation consultancy. He is also the author of the book Create New Futures: How Leaders Produce Breakthroughs and Transform the World Through Conversation and hosts the Creating New Futures podcast. He has spent time as a fighter pilot for the Israeli Air Force, where he learned lessons he still uses today. Now, Fortune 500 companies hire him to help their senior teams create purpose-inspired futures and innovative strategies that drive growth.\\n\\nLEADERSHIP INSIGHTS\\n\\n- To create new futures, we have to determine the future(s) we want and work backward to achieve it. In other words, solve to the future state. When you do, you will address the current challenges and opportunities.\\n- New, breakthrough ideas cannot come when people are stuck in old thinking patterns.\\n- As a leader, you have three jobs: 1) Doing the work you were hired to do. 2) Transforming the work to do it more efficiently. 3) Transforming yourself. This allows you to do the first two better.\\n- The key to transforming your work and transforming yourself is an insatiable curiosity.\\n- Ask yourself, \\u201cHow am I making the work experience the most fulfilling for others?\\u201d\\n- Either be mission critical or create overwhelming value. These are the two ways to make yourself a vital component in or for an organization.\\n- An un-debriefed action is a wasted action. A debriefed action that leads to new breakthroughs is the greatest satisfaction and reward in being able to serve customers.\\n- Commit every day to debriefing your experience and distill some key ideas, practices, and opportunities that will enable you to perform at a higher level tomorrow.\\n\\nQUESTIONS TO INSPIRE US TO ACTION\\n\\n- What is some lesson, saying, or experience that continues to influence your leadership to this day? The \\u201cWow multiplier phenomenon\\u201d\\u2014go above and beyond people expectations. Only outstanding work will be appreciated as excellent. If you do \\u201cWow work,\\u201d you will be rewarded disproportionately.\\n- Use three descriptors to finish this sentence: \\u201cA leader is\\u2026\\u201d A convener of possibilities, a catalyst of new conversations, and a connector of data points that shape new tomorrows.\\n- What is a question that leaders should be asking either themselves or others? What possible futures do I imagine (for yourself, others)? And what specifically excites and energizes me about these futures?\\n- What book would you recommend to leaders? (A movie) The Two Popes.\\n- If you could get every listener to start doing something THIS week to help them be a better leader, what would it be? You must invest in your growth. Build a practice of reflection into your work. Carve out 10-20 minutes each morning to be reflective and determine what you need to do that day. Bring a clear and purposeful intent to each day.\\n- As a general life principle, is it better to ask \\u201cwhy?\\u201d or \\u201cwhy not?\\u201d Ask \\u201cwhy?\\u201d if you need a new insight. Ask \\u201cwhy not?\\u201d if you want to release new, momentous action.\\n\\nWebsite:\\nhttps://www.avivconsulting.com/\\n\\nFind Aviv on social media:\\nTwitter: https://twitter.com/avivshahar (@AvivShahar)\\nInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/avivconsulting (@AvivConsulting)'