20. Teachability: To keep leading, keep learning
Maxwell believed that Charlie Chaplin, who “kept growing and learning as an
actor, director and eventually film executive”, embodied teachability. He gave
five guidelines on achieving a teachable attitude: cure one’s destination
disease, overcome one’s success, swear off shortcuts, trade in one’s pride and
never pay twice for the same mistake. He then offers the following points to
improve teachability: observe how one react to mistakes, try something new and
learn in one’s area of strength.
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My thoughts
Again, Maxwell has thrown up a word I’m uncertain about, and to a
consultation to Webster brought a nought. If I were to take teachability as
being taught, then who would teach a CEO? The Chairman of the Board? Not
likely if the CEO and the Chairman are the same person. Perhaps a disgruntled
member of the C-suite who felt himself/herself being passed over for the vacated
top job might pass on some lessons to the new boss who was parachuted in? But I
jest. What do I know about the going-ons at the C-suite?
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