Category: Startup
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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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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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Reset
Teams, like individuals, tend to get caught in their self-perception and narrative of who they think they are. It’s a huge blocker of growth. In people, these self-narratives tend to develop in the early formative years of the company and are very hard to change. Last week I asked one of the product people I…
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OKR ourselves first
OKRs (or any other focus framework) are treated by leaders like tools instead of the “mindset interfaces” they are. Leaders are looking at the integration of OKRs as an implementation challenge when in fact it is a mindset shift challenge that, like any other mindset shift, starts with leadership by example. There’s a story about…
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Recalculate route
We all want a sense of confidence that we know exactly where we’re going. But if there is one thing I painfully learned in more than 20 years of PMing is that we product people don’t really know 🙁 This need for a sence of confidence in our direction birthed the concept of roadmaps. The…