Agree, and you use especially good analogies here! As I've moved from an IC into a leadership position, I've had to learn to employ a variety of different comm

Agree, and you use especially good analogies here! As I've moved from an IC into a leadership position, I've had to learn to employ a variety of different communication styles beyond "super direct" which is what I did at the beginning — almost all of which were learned as a result of undesired side effects of directness. As they say: Good judgment comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgment... and s/judgment/communication.