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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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Feb 28, 2020

Aviv has been fascinated with the complex nature of the learning process ever since he enlisted in the Israeli Air Force and began his training as a fighter pilot. In this episode, Aviv introduces the first episode in his Collective Intelligence series. Specifically, he focuses on the art of listening by analyzing the five listening levels and expounding on the progression that occurs as you evolve from level to level. Aviv then shifts his focus to listening in business settings and reveals an additional dimension of listening. Finally, Aviv shares personal insights into recent discoveries he has made about his own journey.

  • 00:39 – Introducing today’s topic, Collective Intelligence #1: Listening Level 5
  • 03:12 – Aviv reflects on Listening Levels One through Four
  • 07:24 – Listening in business settings
  • 10:01 – Additional dimensions of listening
  • 13:01 – Discoveries from Aviv’s journey

Full show notes: http://www.avivconsulting.com/cnf80

Feb 13, 2020

Jeff Gallinat is the Senior Vice President of Global Manufacturing Operations at Cisco Systems. In this capacity, Jeff is responsible for leading Cisco’s global manufacturing and logistics operations. He also leads the teams responsible for the design of Cisco’s global operational network, the supply chain security, and the business management of Cisco’s operational partners. Jeff has a depth of experience in global manufacturing and supply chain that is unrivalled. Prior to joining Cisco, he held the role of Vice President of Global Manufacturing at the Lenovo Group and spent twenty-three years at IBM tackling roles in manufacturing, procurement, and supply chain. Jeff is a thoughtful leader, who leads with both head and heart. He brings a unique combination of passion in helping people grow and apply a rigorous operational discipline with the focus on learning and continuous improvement.

In this episode, Aviv and Jeff expound on the global aspect of Jeff’s role, including the decision to move his family to China for a number of years in order to take on a new challenge. This is one particular aspect of Jeff’s role that he enjoys the most as he finds the diversity of minds and culture fascinating as well as the ability to integrate that diversity across functions, partners and businesses within his industry. Jeff shares his ideas on curiosity, leadership, and confronting fear in the corporate workplace. Jeff speaks to the tremendous amount of value he places on hard work and accountability. Finally, Jeff touches on his process for constructing a successful team.

  • 00:46 – Introducing today’s guest, Jeff Gallinat 
  • 02:57 – The accomplishment Jeff is most proud of
  • 04:56 – The moment Jeff realized the importance of accountability
  • 07:20 – Key leadership principles that Jeff employs in his current role at Cisco
  • 09:53 – What informs Jeff’s awareness as a leader
  • 13:20 – The decision to take on a new role in China and how it impacted Jeff and his family
  • 19:18 – Jeff speaks to what inspired him during his formative years, including mentors he has worked with
  • 25:30 – How Jeff is maximizing the growth and learning opportunities as they present themselves
  • 27:48 – Informal leaders that can make or break an organization’s success
  • 30:22 – How Jeff constructs a successful team and brings out the best in each individual
  • 36:51 – Jeff’s philosophy on leadership
  • 43:23 – Lessons Jeff has learned through challenge and struggle in his early career
  • 47:29 – The importance of confronting fear
  • 54:26 – Advice Jeff would give his younger self
  • 58:52 – Two learning Jeff values above all others
  • 1:01:41 – Parting words of wisdom and insights from Jeff
  • 1:02:47 – Now it’s your turn, lead from a place of ownership and love, listen to your intuition, and practice high-quality engagement and listening with the right people

FULL SHOW NOTES: https://www.avivconsulting.com/cnf79

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