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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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May 29, 2019

In this episode, Aviv reflects on the idea that failure oftentimes can be a great teacher. He identifies and analyzes six categories of failure. These include failure to achieve a goal, failure to apply learning, failure to be present, failure to recognize opportunities, failure to hold on to your own values and morals, and failure to forgive. Finally, he expounds on the ways in which learning from failure can catalyze change and help create new futures.

  • 00:58 – Introducing today’s topic, how failure can be a teacher and catalyze development and growth 
  • 01:19 – Aviv identifies six categories of failure
  • 02:03 – Category One: Failure to achieve a goal or reach a target
  • 03:41 – Category Two: Failure to apply learning
  • 07:04 – Category Three: Failure to be present
  • 07:53 – Category Four: Failure to recognize and respond to opportunities
  • 08:42 – Category Five: Failure to hold on to your own values, morals, and sense of integrity
  • 10:13 – Category Six: Failure to forgive 
  • 11:17 – Now it’s your turn, reflect on your failures in order to transform them into learning and growth

Full show notes: http://www.avivconsulting.com/cnf62

May 14, 2019

Astrid Hartmann is the Senior Vice President and Managing Director of Lufthansa Global Business Services, an organization that manages the finance, HR, revenue accounting and procurement globally for all of Lufthansa Group companies. She previously held multiple senior management positions at Hewlett-Packard. During her time at Lufthansa, Astrid has driven tremendous revenue growth, infused performance and improvement culture and dramatically improved customer satisfaction. Astrid is a smart and curious executive who creates infectious energy through her ability to mobilize large-scale change and motivate her teams to exceed their objectives.

In this episode, Aviv and Astrid discuss Astrid’s journey to executive leadership positions within top performing global companies. She reflects on how she approaches challenges as well as her views on leadership. Aviv and Astrid also talk passionately about the current state of women in business and the strides that must still occur. Astrid speaks to the importance of delegating as it pertains to effective leadership. Finally, Aviv stresses the importance of surrounding yourself with the best talent, developing a shared vision for the future, and building strategic momentum.

  • 00:57 – Introducing today’s guest, Astrid Hartmann
  • 03:18 – Astrid talks about the recent vacation she took
  • 06:13 – What Astrid enjoys most about her current role at Lufthansa
  • 07:48 – Answering to the board of directors
  • 08:35 – How Astrid approaches large challenges
  • 12:38 – Recapping the two guiding principles Astrid utilizes
  • 13:54 – Additional learnings Astrid has harvested throughout her journey
  • 16:36 – Defining the ambiguous and working cross-functionally
  • 19:45 – Astrid expands on her philosophy on change
  • 22:03 – Refusing to compromise on quality
  • 24:01 – What inspired Astrid growing up
  • 26:15 – Astrid recalls the moment the Berlin Wall came down
  • 29:53 – Travelling outside of East Berlin
  • 31:43 – How the fall of the Berlin Wall represented a formative moment in Astrid’s life and career
  • 35:07 – Astrid describes her journey to discover her business strengths 
  • 38:03 – Working at Hewlett-Packard
  • 42:54 – Luck isn’t always what it appears
  • 45:58 – Astrid delineate some formative insights about leadership she is currently developing
  • 48:24 – Astrid shares another leadership lesson she learned from her mother
  • 50:53 – Astrid shares her thoughts on women in leadership
  • 54:56 – How Astrid handled herself as a woman in business
  • 58:39 – Advice Astrid would give to her younger self
  • 59:47 – The importance of the capacity to think for yourself and the capacity to lead others
  • 1:01:10 – Parting words of wisdom from Astrid
  • 1:02:33 – Now it’s your turn, surround yourself with top talent, develop a shared vision for the future, and build momentum

FULL SHOW NOTES: https://www.avivconsulting.com/cnf61

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