Why nobody ever taught you this.
Nobody tells you how to create value. Either they teach something else that also matters, or they've never been inside the rooms where this gets decided, or they know it but can't explain it in a way that fits an analytical mind.
A technical course sharpens the analysis. That's the part you're already good at.
A career coach helps you work out what you want next. Useful, and deliberately domain-free. They can't tell you what counts as value in a forecasting project, because they've never sat in one.
A communication or executive presence coach improves how you position what you're already delivering. They take people who are producing value and help them speak and negotiate better.
Your manager teaches you about the gaps they once had. That's honest and it's often good advice. It just isn't your gap. Everyone's weakest link is different.
And even when people who are genuinely good at this try to explain it, you realize they know it by instinct. They can do it. They can't break it down. So the advice arrives as a slogan. Be more strategic. Bring actionable insight. Know your audience. Then it starts contradicting itself. Take ownership, and then you're stubborn. Escalate early, and then you're not handling it yourself.
So you'd have to ask. And in most workplaces, asking that kind of question gets you read as difficult, or as not senior enough. So you stop asking, and you start wondering whether the problem is you.
It isn't. If you can find the balance between overfitting and underfitting a model, you can learn this. Nobody ever explained it in a way that fits your way of thinking.