Mapping out success is not like mapping out the London Underground. Straight lines and regular stops. Success just doesn’t travel that way.
And that makes giving feedback hard.
How do you know when it’s working?
The temptation is to control the direction of travel. And that works on the underground, but not so much on people.
What really separates people from trains, tracks, and maps, is the ability to accept that we can move in a general direction of travel.
Plans and goals may provide direction of travel. Timelines and other constraints might well keep us on track. But “what if” keeps us flexible.