Becoming Coachable: Unleashing the Power of Executive Coaching to Transform Your Leadership and Life
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Becoming Coachable: Unleashing the Power of Executive Coaching to Transform Your Leadership and Life

Growth is a practice, not a project.
leadership as a commitment to coach others to discover their potential rather than focusing only on yours, to inspire people to own the collective journey as much as your own.
If decisions are reversible, make a decision very quickly based on limited data and gut instinct.
“The easy things, they have already done. The medium things, they have already done. The hard things, they have at least tried to do. What’s left is the stuff they don’t know how to do.”
Coaching is most effective when we work with successful executives who want to be as impactful as they can be.
The qualities you need to be successfully coached—self-awareness, humility, the ability to listen, a hunger for feedback, a commitment to action, and a willingness to be held accountable—are precisely the qualities you need to lead.
If irreversible, be more thoughtful and take a bit more time, but still give yourself a deadline to make the final decision.
“Good is the enemy of great.”
Coachability, as we define it, is about the degree of preparedness a person has to get the most growth and development from the coaching process.