This document contains contact information for Sinan Si Alhir, an enterprise transformation coach, trainer, consultant, and practitioner with a focus on business agility and antifragility. It provides his email, phone number, website, and social media profiles. The document also includes brief summaries of concepts from the book "Antifragile" by Nassim Nicholas Taleb, such as definitions of fragility, resilience, robustness, and antifragility. It describes how antifragility means gaining from exposure to randomness, disorder and uncertainty. The final section lists the core competencies of coaching as defined by the International Coaching Federation.

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Antifragility and Coaching
Si Alhir
sahlir@gmail.com
202.596.8202

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Si Alhir
(Sinan Si Alhir)
Enterprise Transformation Coach, Trainer, Consultant, and
Practitioner with a focus on Business Agility and Antifragility
Email: salhir@gmail.com
Phone: 202.596.8202
About.Me: http://www.about.me/SAlhir
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/SAlhir
Blog: http://salhir.wordpress.com
Twitter: http://twitter.com/SAlhir
Enterprise Transformation Coach, Trainer, Consultant, and
Practitioner with a focus on Business Agility and Antifragility
Human Nature and Human Dynamics
Catalyst

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Paradigms
We are all prisoners of our paradigms.
(Gary Hamel)

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Expect the Unexpected and Emerge Stronger
During the past decade, we’ve seen economic volatility and disruption
escalate to arguably unprecedented levels. . . . For business leaders across the
world, “expect the unexpected” has become the mantra.
The only way forward is to build organisations that can survive and thrive
amidst disorder: organisations that are agile and adaptable, able to cope with
disruption and emerge stronger than before.
Source: “Dealing with Disruption: Adapting to Survive and Thrive”
(PwC/PricewaterhouseCoopers International 16th Annual Global CEO Survey, 2013)
http://www.pwc.com/ceosurvey

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Wind, Candle, and Fire
Wind extinguishes a candle and energizes fire.
You want to be the fire and wish for the wind.
Likewise with randomness, uncertainty, chaos:
you want to use them, not hide from them.
The mission is how to domesticate, even dominate, even conquer,
the unseen, the opaque, and the inexplicable.
Source: “Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder” (Nassim Nicholas Taleb, 2012)

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Antifragility
Some things benefit from shocks; they thrive and grow when exposed to
volatility, randomness, disorder, and stressors and love adventure, risk, and
uncertainty. Yet, in spite of the ubiquity of the phenomenon, there is no word
for the exact opposite of fragile. Let us call it antifragile.
Source: “Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder” (Nassim Nicholas Taleb, 2012)

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Fragile, Resilient, Robust, and Antifragile
Antifragility is beyond resilience or robustness.
The resilient resists shocks and stays the same;
the antifragile gets better.
The fragile wants tranquility,
the antifragile grows from disorder, and
the robust doesn’t care too much.
Anything that has more upside than downside from random events (or certain
shocks) is antifragile; the reverse is fragile.
Source: “Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder” (Nassim Nicholas Taleb, 2012)

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The Extended Disorder Family
Fragility and antifragility mean potential gain or harm from exposure to
something related to volatility. What is that something?
Simply, membership in the extended disorder family.
The Extended Disorder Family (or Cluster): (i) uncertainty, (ii) variability, (iii)
imperfect, incomplete knowledge, (iv) chance, (v) chaos, (vi) volatility, (vii)
disorder, (viii) entropy, (ix) time, (x) the unknown, (xi) randomness, (xii)
turmoil, (xiii) stressor, (xiv) error, (xv) dispersion of outcomes, (xvi)
unknowledge.
It happens that uncertainty, disorder, and the unknown are completely
equivalent in their effect: antifragile systems benefit (to some degree) from,
and the fragile is penalized by, almost all of them.
Source: “Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder” (Nassim Nicholas Taleb, 2012)

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The Triad and The Map of the World
Antifragility and fragility are degrees on a spectrum.
Fragility and antifragility are part of the current property of an object.
Fragile and antifragile here are relative terms, not quite absolute properties.
Antifragility is relative to a given situation
(specific sources of harm or volatility, and up to a certain range of exposure).
Source: “Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder” (Nassim Nicholas Taleb, 2012)

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The Triad
Resists shocks and Stays the same
(Resilient/recover during normal change)
Absorbs shocks and Gets better
(Resilient/recover during unusual change)
Stressors
(Loves Disorder)
Resist Disorder
(Deteriorate due to Change)
Harm or Penalize
(“Nothing to gain”,
More downside than upside)
Fragile
(Suffers and
Wants Tranquility)
“at best unharmed”
Manage Change
Randomness
Robust
(Sustains/resist and
Doesn’t care too much)
“at best and at worst unharmed”
Embrace Disorder
(Thrive on Change)
Adapt & Evolve
Gain or Benefit
(“Nothing to lose”,
More upside than downside)
Antifragile
(Evolves and
Grows from Disorder)
“at worst unharmed”
Resist Change
Not Change
Antiagile
(Not Adapts)
Embrace Change
Inspect & Adapt
Change
Agile
(Adapts)
Antifragilize
(Exposure)
Volatility
(Hates Disorder)
Fragilize
(Deprivation)

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Coaching
• Core Competencies
– Setting the Foundation
• Meeting Ethical Guidelines
and Professional Standards
• Establishing the Coaching
Agreement
– Co-creating the Relationship
• Establishing Trust and Intimacy
with the Client
• Coaching Presence
– Communicating Effectively
• Active Listening
• Powerful Questioning
• Direct Communication
– Facilitating Learning and
Results
• Creating Awareness
• Designing Actions
• Planning and Goal Setting
• Managing Progress and
Accountability
Source: International Coaching Federation,(http://www.coachfederation.org)
• Coaching is “partnering with clients in a thought-provoking
and creative process that inspires them to maximize their
personal and professional potential”

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Thank You
Si Alhir
sahlir@gmail.com
202.596.8202