Category: Founders
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Burning the boats — Resisting the pull of the old you
One of the hardest things about pivoting our company or our career is resisting the pull of the past. The fact that we have decided to change our value proposition doesn’t mean the world recognizes that yet, and as a result, people and companies will come knocking at our door looking for the “old you”.…
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Never forever
There are two imaginary words humans invented that are holding us back as individuals, as companies, and as a species. We created them back in the days out of necessity but they have become so prominent in the way we see the world that instead of serving us they now threaten our existence. FOREVER &…
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No attachment
When I was an art student almost 30 years ago I studied under the guidance one of Israel’s greatest artist Yaakov Dorchin. He wasn’t a man of many words but still somehow with the little words he did use he taught us much more than many others teachers did with a million words. In our first…
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“We tried it it doesn’t work!”
How would the world look if babies would decide walking wasn’t worth it after trying once or twice and failing? There is a silent vision killer I have seen in action more times than I can count. It is true for personal vision and for company/product visions alike. It is called the “We tried it…
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Team Zero & the Chief-Example-Officer
Lately, I found myself talking with founders a lot about a concept I call “Team Zero”. It is an extremely simple concept to grasp and yet one of the hardest to apply. “Team Zero” means that you, as founders, accept that your company is your creation and that everything you see in it, whether you love…
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What’s your Person Market Fit?
Many of the founders I coach come from product or engineering backgrounds. I found that product/dev analogies work really well when it comes to working to their personal growth and goals. The question that works best of all, and gets them to identify their gaps and pinpoint where they want to grow was: Imagine you…
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Igniting a vision
There is a rare moment I live for. It is the birth of a vision in a person’s mind. It is the second when, for the first time they see, actually see, the picture of the future they are about to create. I found the secret to converting that vague sense of future you have…
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Ducks in the water
There is a segment in the book Reboot, where Jerry Colonna tells about a simple question that quite regularly makes the entrepreneurs he works with start crying. He writes: My radical, surprising, unprecedented question that always does the trick is quite simple; I ask, “How are you?” But then I follow it up with, “No.…