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CHARLES E. SMITH Ph.D is Executive Editor of the Journal of Collaborative Innovation in the Library of Professional Coaching. A highly-experienced Futurist, Author, and Executive Coach, current interests are in deep dives into the nature of Collaborative Innovation, conscious conversations, and engaging large numbers of kindred spirits and businesses. For fifty years, he has been a personal and leadership coach and organizational behavior consultant stimulating breakthrough thinking, culture change and seemingly impossible results. A graduate of the Boston Public Latin School, Charlie holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Social Relations from Harvard College, an MBA from the Harvard Business School, a Ph.D. in Organizational Behavior from Case Western Reserve University, and a Certificate in Gestalt Methods from the Gestalt Institute of Cleveland. He was Visiting Associate Professor of Organizational Behavior at Sir George Williams University in Montreal, former President of the Harvard-Radcliffe Club of New Mexico, and Editor of Transformation Magazine published by the Library of Professional Coaching. Dr. Smith has written three books, "The Merlin Factor, Leadership and Strategic Intent” "Navigating from the Future," “Don’t be a Noddle in Someone Else’s Soup” and many articles located in the Library of Professional Coaching and Eruditio, a Journal of the World Academy of Art and Science.

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COACHING OBLIQUE SHAFTS OF ILLUMINATION

By Charles Smith
September 17, 2020
in :  Best Practices
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While an oblique shaft of illumination brings insight, new futures, and real thinking, people don’t want it when they’ve got a house to clean, or whatever it is considered essential.

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Fake Research on Coaching

By Charles Smith
January 14, 2016
in :  Best Practices
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Based on decades of informal, unverified, and unscientific observation, the checklist for obstacles to Effective Coaching (EF) includes:

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A Coach’s Lament

By Charles Smith
November 12, 2014
in :  Managing Stress & Challenges
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Blessed are those who have full lives and do not fly In this technology mad non human universe.

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Explanation Disorder 2.0

By Charles Smith
October 8, 2014
in :  Managing Stress & Challenges
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Most of what we think and do is locked in place by explanations based on past experience and justify long-held points of view.

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Listening is Culture Change

By Charles Smith
September 24, 2014
in :  Communication
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Listening does not cause culture change. Listening is culture change. Culture changes in the very moment you listen, not later.

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Corporate Love 1999

By Charles Smith
September 15, 2014
in :  Ethics
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Corporate Love is about corporate priorities and humanity.

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While Being Coached

By Charles Smith
September 10, 2014
in :  Best Practices
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Living is a thing you do now or never. Which do I? I never know the right thing to do. I only know what I can do

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The Problem with Coaching for Money

By Charles Smith
May 8, 2014
in :  Financial Considerations
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If beauty, truth, and the good are the same, how this intersects with money and pragmatics is lost on me.

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Breaking Free: Bringing the Overview Effect to Work and Life

By Charles Smith
April 26, 2014
in :  Managing Stress & Challenges
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Is it possible to generate an escape velocity to break free of the gravity of the cultures and circumstances that keep us from going for our dreams with courage and conviction?

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Book of Universal Wisdom: Great Coaching Questions

By Charles Smith
December 4, 2013
in :  Coaching Questions
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Here are some excerpts from a Book of Universal Wisdom translated so people can practice it.

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