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Create New Futures | How Leaders Produce Breakthroughs and Transform the World through Conversation

Welcome to Create New Futures. Every episode, best-selling author and host Aviv Shahar will explore ideas and insights that can awaken and inspire you to the opportunities you have to create new futures for you, your family, your teams, and for your business. Life is too short to not be engaged in fascinating conversations that open, inspire and unleash new ways of thinking and seeing possibilities and beauty. Through Create New Futures, Aviv will engage in conversation with leaders and experts to explore practices that you can use to create and shape the future. With his guests, Aviv will put a magnifying glass on strategies and frameworks that he has applied to help senior executives and their teams achieve significant breakthroughs that lead to game changing results. Ideas, strategies, breakthroughs and practices that you can apply. With his innovative ideas and frameworks, Aviv walks you through what you need to lead and transform an organization, and redesign your life to achieve new goals. Together with his guests, Aviv will explore how to develop strategy, how to lead to enable teams to unleash their brilliance and what is the inside work leaders must engage in to develop executive presence and charisma. More than ever, humanity now needs people who are open and prepared to imagine, create, and sustain new futures. This is a time of great transformative and disruptive change. It demands our best imagination, courage, and creativity. Through this podcast, Aviv will inspire you to be tomorrow's agent by creating conversations that birth new possibilities for you and for the people in your life. Through his concept of Architecture Thinking™, Aviv walks you through what is needed to lead change, transform an organization, redesign your life to achieve new goals, serve new needs and realize new possibilities. Leaders need to consider how to bring about and enable a compound set of outcomes by concurrently integrating multiple inputs.
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Now displaying: July, 2019
Jul 30, 2019

In this episode, Aviv reflects on the paradigm shift from a structure-first to a value-first model. Aviv notes that, in the former outdated model, the flow moves from structure to work and from work to value indicating that structure defines work and the work defines value. However, in this new model, which is centered on value, the flow has been reversed and is now initiated by the opportunity to create value. Finally, Aviv poses an intriguing thought experiment and leaves the audience with some sage advice. He urges them to talk to members of their organizations in order to decipher whether their activities are based on structure or value.

  • 00:58 – Introducing today’s topic, Value Defined Work and the New Paradigm
  • 02:13 – Facilitating the shift from a structure first to a value first mindset
  • 04:47 – The new value-first model
  • 06:10 – Why startups represent a great example of value-centered work
  • 07:29 – Aviv talks about the evolution of the work he does as a consultant
  • 08:21 – An intriguing thought experiment
  • 10:33 – Now it’s your turn, lead your team by focusing on outcome based activities and working backward from the desired future you’re working to create

Full show notes: http://www.avivconsulting.com/cnf66

Jul 16, 2019

Bill Koenig has had a distinguished and successful career as an expert in adult learning, leadership and organizational development, and as an entrepreneur and a civic leader. Bill’s eclectic experience includes Program Director at OSR, Organization System Renewal Northwest, and Board Chair of the Whidbey Institute where he participated in the development of their leadership programs. Previously, Bill was the President and CEO of Cantametrix, and a founder and President of DiscoverMusic and of KidStar Interactive Media. Bill’s holds a PhD in mythological studies and a Masters in whole systems design. He is currently a senior advisor at The Cambridge Management Group where he brings together a big picture of deep cross-discipline insights into human systems, transformation and renewal.

In this episode, Aviv and Bill expound on the differences between leadership competency and leadership capacity. Bill speaks to the profound impact that sports had on his formative years and credits his success today to the experiences he had playing team sports throughout his life. Bill identifies leadership patterns he has witnessed in organizations and cites the Navy Seals as a model of effective shared leadership. Aviv and Bill reflect on the concept of servant leadership. Finally, Bill leaves the audience with some sound advice. He encourages the continual journey of becoming yourself and suggests doing so in the context of continual inquiry and the assimilation of new learning, new models and new opportunities.

  • 00:58 – Introducing today’s guest, Bill Koenig
  • 02:34 – What energizes and excites Bill
  • 03:36 – Bill talks about the importance of sustainability
  • 04:57 – Bill provides examples of how we can be disruptive, transformational, and engaged
  • 07:21 – The two critical vectors that have led to the sustainability crisis
  • 08:28 – Defining leadership competence
  • 13:19 – Recognizing the exterior space of leadership development
  • 17:00 – Catalysts for transformational change
  • 20:08 – A striking pattern Bill has noticed within organizations
  • 26:33 – How the Navy Seals embody shared leadership
  • 29:47 – Aviv expounds on a meta-trend that has been appearing within organizations
  • 32:36 – Bill reflects on a Graduate program he participated in
  • 35:17 – Inspirations from Bill’s formative years
  • 37:22 – How Bill used sports as a key component in his evolution as a person
  • 41:59 – How these propulsions helped shape Bill’s career
  • 43:51 – The journey to entrepreneurship within the start-up space
  • 45:46 – Bill’s proudest accomplishment
  • 54:13 – Transformative insights Bill has been able to internalize through his experience with organizational renewal
  • 57:06 – Servant leadership
  • 57:56 – Bill regales the audience with the story of a near death experience
  • 1:03:31 – Why Bill chose to study mythology
  • 1:07:27 – Two passions Bill values above all others
  • 1:09:49 – Parting words of wisdom and insights from Bill
  • 1:14:19 – Now it’s your turn, build your leadership capacity, cultivate shared awareness and consciousness about the mission at hand, and stay in-tune with your inner voice to become yourself 

FULL SHOW NOTES: https://www.avivconsulting.com/cnf65

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