29 A Fleet of Coaches Is Born

DOI: 10.4324/9780429347023-33

Time Passes, Progress Accelerates

OVER THE NEXT weeks Denise felt like she was in overdrive. She did more coaching cycles than ever. As a coach I have to always be impatient, she thought to herself at one point. Impatient about finding the next obstacle that is.

She also realized that the number of coaching cycles she ran was her way to accelerate the pace. We need to move faster, so I need to coach twice a day — for the topics that are behind that is.

Removing an obstacle at best takes three experiments. There’s one for finding it, one for identifying the cause, and then one for testing a possible solution to remove the cause. That is if everything goes perfectly. Usually it takes ...

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