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There are multiple reasons why building autonomous teams is challenging for leaders, but there is one aspect of the challenge that we’re ignoring. Regardless of the challenges of building the required trust, frameworks, and processes that foster ...more

Have YOU clearly communicated to your company and each team what is the change they are expected to drive in the next 90 days? In most startups, we have 2–8 quarters of funding left at any given moment of time. That’s it! We can’t really afford t...more

Having an inner conflict and having a choice to make sounds similar but they are very different. Inner conflict is actually a form of avoiding making real choices. The cost of avoiding choices I see this all the time. Startup founders, who...more

When was the last time you SAW your vision? Seriously, when was the last time you found yourself PULLED from the present into the future? Do you remember the last time you faced a serious dilemma in the present and felt your vision was guiding yo...more

When we talk about being “data-driven” what we usually focus on is the “data” part. The focus is on ensuring data drives our decisions. By doing so we are missing the whole point which is the “driving” part of being data-driven. Who in your team ...more

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 ...more

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 se...more

Yaakov Dorchin 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...more

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/prod...more

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 y...more

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 iden...more

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 s...more

When I saw this screen capture by the man who ran a full marathon in his balcony during COVID-19 I was reminded about how easy it is for us humans to confuse movement with progress. It made me think about the times, during the past ...more

Look at this face. This incredible lady singlehandedly and against all odds created the brand of who is today the most recognized artist in the world. I was browsing Google photos trying to find a photo of van Gogh (the painter himself not hi...more

The other day as I was taking one of my “let’s keep our sanity while in quarantine” walks I happened to bump into this incredible tree. And it seemed to capture in one frame what it really takes to reinvent yourself in times of unbelievable diffi...more

COVID-19 is the mother of all triggers. You want to react and being proactive is realllllllly hard. Your team looks up to you with one question in their minds “What should we do now?” But asking “what to do?” is a question that is reactive by ...more

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...more

In the past year I found myself thinking a lot about accountability. As I was caching founders and teams I noticed that whenever we mentioned the term “accountability” or asked “Who is accountable?” people usually moved uncomfortably in their ch...more

Clayton M. Christensen passed away this week… He left behind him an incredible body of work and books that helped countless companies and individuals find the balance between the short term business pressures and the longer-term, survi...more