Author: Avi Charkham
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In-abiliy
When we feel inability, our mindset is usually focused on our circle of concerns, in the things that are outside our influence. The funny thing is that the answer to overcoming the sense of inability is hidden right in front of our eyes, in the term itself 🙂 In-ability = our inner ability Our inner…
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Why should anything change next quarter?
As Albert Einstein noted, “We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.” Yet as we plan our next quarter, we tend to ask, “What should we do differently this quarter?” instead of asking, “How should we be thinking differently this quarter?”. In other words, we are planning next…
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Do we really know our co-founders?
Though I coach co-founders as a team, my primary tool is 1×1 coaching which gives me a unique perspective into who they really ARE. Realizing the gaps between founders’ values and belief systems makes me sometimes amazed teams function. These gaps, when the occur, are “surfaced” in the form of arguments, disagreements, growing misalignment and…
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May you “have a birth today”
When I was a teenager I was a volunteer medic at MDA, Israel’s national rescue organization. We used to accompany the ambulance team to all kinds of medical emergencies. Like any job we had cases we were excited to attend and others we liked less… but the pinnacle of every volunteer medic was delivering a home…
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Alignment is the “API” of empowerment
When we read the definition of alignment in the dictionary we get the sense of how it feels to work in a command & control mindset: Cogs in a machine, expected to align in a straight line and travel a predefined course… And most of all to agree. Alignment in a command & control environment…
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No Pause Button
I lost my voice this today. A coach without a voice? 🙁 I started losing my voice during the weekend but when the week started I kept coaching. I couldn’t make myself pause. Today it reached a point that it was impossible for me to go on. I canceled the rest of the sessions this…
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GPS Question
How do I know I’m going in the right direction? One of the questions I find myself asking repeatedly is “What would you ask yourself at the end of each week, before the weekend arrives, to know that you did a great job this week?” The question never fails because when we look for that…
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! → ?
If language is magic then the question mark is the magician’s wand. It is the one character that makes everything possible. Don’t believe me? Try it… Think of 3 things that you deeply believe are impossible… Then at the end of every statement add an exclamation mark. Now read them aloud to yourself. For example:…
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What’s your insight?
Every change we create, every growth we drive, starts with a change in our perception and beliefs. We first have an in-sight (an updated internal image of a possible reality) and it is that internal image that drives our action as we pursue to close the gap between our in-sight(vision) and our external-sight (reality). Insights…
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Goals that reach the eyes
Too often it feels like goals are “fed” to people. When they describe their goals they feel like an external force that drives them instead of a fire that fuels them from within. The difference between the two can be seen in the eyes of the people who discuss their goals. There is an expression…