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Eric Nehrlich on the Art of Executive Coaching and Forecasting

Commonplace Expertise

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The Power of Ritual

A famous story about Andy Grove you know when Intel was in the memory chip business and they were getting their butts kicked by Japan and Korea and other places. They symbolically fired themselves by walking out of the office and back into and say okay now let's get on the memory exactly right exactly so that's part of it as well. It can be really powerful to have a ritual of some sort like that of like symbolically letting go of the old identitylike this is what I'm going to do now. The one that came to mind was an engineering VP at a startup who was again like a domain expert he knew his territory  and could run a engineering team. He developed a

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