Hello Leader,
Coaching CEOs is like getting a front seat to a
good thriller. You facilitate and help realize an exciting vision. What I see from this front seat today
is that you are called to gather your courage. You
are called to move forward with confidence and conviction to help the
people around you create the future. This KEY is a personal letter to the CEO
from a CEO Coach.
As always, your comments are welcome. Call us to
find out about breakthrough coaching for you and your team. Please forward this
KEY to friends, family and associates. Sincerely,
Aviv Shahar, CEO Coach
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Dear Mr. CEO - A CEO Coach Letter
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Dear Mr. CEO;
Did you pass the stress
test? Great! It's time for a vision test. A quiet revolution is sweeping
through your company and through corporate boardrooms across the nation.
Yesterday's solutions do not work. Disruption is the norm. The power equation has
shifted. The prowess of the capital markets has proven highly efficient at self-destructing.
Cause and effect have become counter intuitive. "The whole world is a nail
because I have a Hummer" (Detroit) rationale is now over!
What do you do, Mr. CEO? How
do you focus and marshal energy and resources?
To move from being a victim of market conditions to a victor of your
opportunities you need to transform. Amidst rapid change, letting go of old
ideas and paradigms is the new CEO competency. Reinventing yourself and your
organization to create a new future is the test you must pass.
Forget the stress test. It
is a resilience test and a vision test you need to pass. A few CEOs lost their
jobs. Many more CEOs lost their compass and perspective. You need new
solutions. You are looking to make the impossible possible. And the possible effortless.
If you only think "How do we get out of
this mess?" you are looking backward. To
look forward you must focus on:
- "What do we want to be as we come out of this?"
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"How and with whom can we partner and collaborate to
create a new future?"
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"What do we want to be known for in the future?"
If
you are not focusing on these questions, you are missing the opportunity of
your life and failing the vision test.
CEOs, like great generals,
were trained to fight the last war. But
this is not a financial or economic crisis. This is an existential moment, an
epochal realignment. The game has changed. The fight is not to survive
what happened; it is to thrive in a world beyond formula. It's a world you
cannot map - it is a world that changes as you draw the map. The quiet revolution
begins with the few executives that
pass the vision and the resilience tests.
To lead wisely, to lead well,
Mr. CEO, you have to create transformational conversations and engagements. You
foster open collaborations and
innovations; manage uncertainties and risks and fashion opportunities. You create adaptive and agile culture and embrace
the impossible. To thrive in the new emerging paradigm, your
organization must generate value, help clients and stakeholders meet their
needs and transform their work and life.
You are more than the PR
and sales CEO. You are more than the coach CEO. You are more than the Decider CEO.
Your role as a CEO is to connect the dots inside and outside your organization.
You are the Connector- and the Integrator-in-Chief. New dots appear every day in
this rapidly shape-shifting world. You are the chief artist. You create a space
for new dots to show up on your screen. You assimilate and connect the picture
and frame meaning, opportunity and vision. Your mindset, narrative, focus and
communication is the place where the complete organizational picture can be
integrated. You are the context maker - context that provides meaning and direction
for committed execution. You are the Picture Maker-in-Chief, the storyteller of
the organizational future.
Sounds daunting? Yes. But
you are not alone. You gather the best talent around the table; the innovators,
visionaries, storytellers, problem solvers and the committed and disciplined
implementers. And you bring up in them the confidence and courage to change,
develop, innovate, collaborate and create a future.
Turn the Key. Create
the vision and resilience test for you and for your team. Create a future
worthy of your best. Thank you.
© Aviv Shahar, CEO Coach
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The Resilience Factor
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Situational surprises with unthinkable demands and opportunities. Welcome to our scary brave new world!
In
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© Aviv Shahar, CEO Coach
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