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Why You Need a Coach
A treatise on being a perpetual rookie
Tom Brady is annoying. Let’s face it. But then, to the Cleveland Browns, so was Elway. Manning annoyed the holy crap out of an awful lot of folks, too.
What they, and all other quarterbacks- especially the aging ones- have in common are coaches.
I am forever surprised that sports fans who can spit out stats like watermelon seeds don’t seem to get the parallel to work performance.
The very best rookies get the best available coaches and coordinators that money can buy. Running backs, tight ends, doesn’t matter. Goes for every sport. Think Serena doesn’t have a cadre of coaches? How on earth did she become perhaps the greatest athlete of the last century?
When a corporation seeks out and recruits a high-potential employee, all too often that employee is left on their own to navigate the new company. In some cases this can be disastrous, as folks with very different life experiences and cultural backgrounds can flounder badly in the wrong corporate culture.
Especially when left to navigate on their own.