The Guide For Better Life
Chaim Oren is an international wellbeing expert, keynote speaker, and business leader known for his significant contributions to the fields of wellbeing, strategic business development, and marketing. His multifaceted career spans various industries, from Fortune 500 companies to the promotion of global trade and the empowerment of not-for-profit organizations. He also served as a Brand Ambassador for Hintsa performance
Oren has worked with leading companies and organizations in the United States and Israel such as : Young & Rubicam , McCann, Ruder Finn. He co- founded Zoetic Inc- a Manhattan based consulting firm that advised Fortune 500 companies such as: Procter & Gamble, Kraft General Foods, AT&T , Avon and others.
Recently he served as the Commercial Representative for the State of Connecticut. Chaim served also as a brand Ambassador of Hintsa- a global leader in human high-performance coaching Formula 1 drivers and business executives .
Throughout his extensive career, he has searched for the optimal balance between work and personal life in our demanding race of life. He has studied from leading teachers such as Deepak Chopra various wellbeing techniques. Moreover, Chaim has learned and practiced various techniques such as; Tai Chi, Transcendental Meditation, and mindfulness. He also has studied Kabbalah and its impact on wellbeing and resilience.
Three years ago , Chaim experienced a life-changing event when he found himself in the hospital and was told by the Doctors that he had one week to live. The next day he underwent a 13-hour open-heart surgery to replace all of his heart arteries. This event changed the course of his life, leading him to changed his life's purpose. He decided to promote wellbeing to companies and individuals . He later launched this podcast, “The Guide for Better Life” emphasizes the importance of wellbeing centric life habits in living a fulfilled and happy life. In this podcast he shares practical insights gained from his life journey to wellbeing and higher meaning at life. He interviews international wellbeing experts , senior executives, opinion leaders and Formula 1 coaches.
He is a speaker at local and international companies and at conferences on wellbeing.
You can book presentations and consultation with Chaim Oren by sending an email to: orengroup1@gmail.com
The Guide For Better Life
The Unconscious Edge: Decoding the Hidden Architecture of Exceptional Decisions: Harvard’s Prof. Gerald Zaltman on why raw brainpower isn’t enough
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We often treat decision-making as a purely rational, linear march from data to conclusion. But if you want to decode what truly separates elite performers from the rest, you have to look beneath the surface.
In this episode, I sit down with Professor Gerald Zaltman, Harvard Business School Professor Emeritus and author of more than 20 books probing the deep architecture of the human mind. Hr dissected how leaders navigate unprecedented disruption, diving headfirst into his groundbreaking new book from Stanford University Press, “Dare to Think Differently: How Open-Mindedness Creates Exceptional Decision-Making.”
Professor Zaltman’s research reveals that elite executives don't just rely on raw brainpower; they harness the creative force of their unconscious mind to navigate highly complex, volatile environments. He unpacks six "thinker toys", essential cognitive habits that allow leaders to transcend conventional, restrictive thinking:
- Serious Playfulness: Deploying "constructive mischief" to aggressively challenge assumptions. It’s about playing hard with ideas, not just executing tasks.
- Befriending Ignorance: Treating what you don’t know as a strategic ally rather than a vulnerability. Facing those pockets of missing knowledge is the ultimate shortcut to novel solutions.
- Asking Discovery Questions: Engineering questions designed to produce surprise. True discovery forces you and your team to radically re-evaluate established dogma.
- Chasing Curiosity: Treating curiosity as the itch that demands to be scratched. Without it, strategic imagination dulls and decays.
- Panoramic Thinking: Moving past the "hedgehog" (knowing one thing deeply) to embrace the "fox", synthesizing seemingly unrelated fields, frameworks, and analogies to spot hidden patterns.
- The Voyager Outlook: Weaponizing ambiguity as a tool for exponential growth rather than a source of friction or fear.
In an era when AI can instantly generate standardized answers, the true competitive edge lies in the distinctly human capacity to ask better questions, embrace uncertainty, and creatively surface our own unconscious insights.
If you are operating in a high-stakes, volatile environment, this episode is your blueprint for breaking free from the traps of linear thinking. It is a masterclass in how to stop simply being "smart" and start being truly, effectively open.