Hmmm… Are you sure about this? It sounds to me like you're conflating two very different ideas: coaching and feedback. When I look for coaching, I'm trying to overcome a specific issue. Though, TBH, most coaching I've received was aggressively average, mediocre, and common. It was full of platitudes and slogans, and I received little that was helpful. So, I'm not convinced coaching is particularly useful outside of very limited use cases. Feedback is great, but that's not coaching. You can get feedback from everyone and everywhere (which is what I think you're suggesting here). How is that different from being guided by the chaos, though? On that level, you may as well use divination, because it's a form of chaotic feedback, too. Are you expecting everyone around you to be coaches? Or that all feedback should be taken equally seriously? Or that all feedback should be coaching-level quality? To me, that doesn't sound like leadership but a messy form of followership. And it certainly doesn't sound like coaching. Or maybe I'm misreading this?

Thanks for taking the time to walk me through your thinking, @Dr. Marvin Parker, DBA! Let's see if I've got it yet… You're making performance claims that I misunderstood as practical advice. In your original post, you're "selling the sizzle, not the steak", as they say in marketing? And in your follow up, you're not talking about fuzzy somethings, like mindset, but a feedback operation protocol to run regularly that incorporates 3 tasks: asking for feedback directly, testing assumptions, and then pivoting when the evidence points in a different direction. Is that right? Reflecting, I notice my previous experience has me read "coachable" as "pliable" or "manipulate-able," which is not what you're saying. So, I probably would have described "Leaders who remain coachable" as "leaders who experiment relentlessly" or "data-driven leaders." Or perhaps more Sun Tsu: the successful general makes a thousand calculations in his temple. Or am I off in the wrong direction again?

Wow, that's incredible dedication to the craft of growth, @Tim Staton! I suspect many people hold you in very high regard as a result. Where do you want to take your growth from here?

@Dr. Marvin Parker, DBA, you're approaching topics like a philosopher there! Terrific! Is that a skill that came naturally to you or was it part of your training?

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