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Summary: Great Book!
Review: As a graduate student of Industrial / Organizational Psychology with an interest in Executive Caoching, I am pleased to find a book that defines so well the tools needed for success as a coach, as well as providing an informed and thoughtful understanding of my future "Career." I found it not only informational, but presented in a fashion whereby anyone, even a lay person, could access the information, and utilize the resources therein.
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Summary: Graduate student - I/O Ph.D. program
Review: As a graduate student of Industrial / Organizational Psychology with an interest in Executive Caoching, I am pleased to find a book that defines so well the tools needed for success as a coach, as well as providing an informed and thoughtful understanding of my future "Career." I found it not only informational, but presented in a fashion whereby anyone, even a lay person, could access the information, and utilize the resources therein.
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Summary: What do Executive Coaches Do? This Book Told Me.
Review: I became curious about "Executive Coaching" after reading an article in Forbes Magazine last year. The article showed astounding salaries (some of these coaches make as much money in a day as many of us make in a year) and major companies (General Electric, Sony, Johnson & Johnson, Ernst & Hewlett-Packard) using "executive coaches". Well this book tells you what these "executive coaches" do and I found it fascinating!
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Summary: What do Executive Coaches Do? This Book Told Me.
Review: I became curious about "Executive Coaching" after reading an article in Forbes Magazine last year. The article showed astounding salaries (some of these coaches make as much money in a day as many of us make in a year) and major companies (General Electric, Sony, Johnson & Johnson, Ernst & Hewlett-Packard) using "executive coaches". Well this book tells you what these "executive coaches" do and I found it fascinating!
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Summary: Coaching for Leadership
Review: I found Coaching for Leadership to be an important compilation of writings from some of the world's best executive coaches. Each author offers something valuable to this book that will help coaches, leaders, and executives alike understand what coaching is and what it can become.The book is divided into five parts that address different areas of coaching, such as the reasons coaching is becoming such a huge part of today's organizations, who a coach should be to clients, when coaching is necessary and when it will help the most, what the different styles and practices entail, and how coaching applies in different situations in businesses today.The most valuable part of the book to me was the identification and role section that defines who coaches are, who they should be, how to become a coach, and the goals of coaches. But what1s great about this book is that because it is so diverse and because it is a forum for so many different ideas, it has something for everyone. Someone who reads this book may find more value in a different section or with a different author than I did, but that is the beauty of this book. It will lead to much discussion about the value, processes, and role of coaching in the world today and in the future.I highly recommend this book to anyone within the realm of coaching, to those thinking of getting into the field of coaching, and to those thinking of hiring a coach for themselves or their organizations. There are many different directions in which coaching as a field can go. And, I found that the editors of this book have done an excellent job of putting forth the styles, theories, and practices of the top executive coaches. This is a book that will become more and more valuable in the years to come as coaching becomes another accepted and expected part of the business world.
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Summary: Great Book!
Review: I found it very useful and enlightening.
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Summary: Best of the best
Review: I found the contributors to "Coaching For Leadership" to be among the best writers and thinkers in today's world of organizational and leadership development. While an easy and quick read it is not short on insight. The manner in which these authors (and long time coaches) come together to form a coherent whole yet allow their own individual styles to show through makes the reading that much more enjoyable and the book that much more beneficial. If only this book had been available when I became a CEO.
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Summary: Best of the best
Review: I found the contributors to "Coaching For Leadership" to be among the best writers and thinkers in today's world of organizational and leadership development. While an easy and quick read it is not short on insight. The manner in which these authors (and long time coaches) come together to form a coherent whole yet allow their own individual styles to show through makes the reading that much more enjoyable and the book that much more beneficial. If only this book had been available when I became a CEO.
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Summary: Best of the best
Review: I found the contributors to "Coaching For Leadership" to be among the best writers and thinkers in today's world of organizational and leadership development. While an easy and quick read it is not short on insight. The manner in which these authors (and long time coaches) come together to form a coherent whole yet allow their own individual styles to show through makes the reading that much more enjoyable and the book that much more beneficial. If only this book had been available when I became a CEO.
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Summary: Fantastic collection of diverse perspectives
Review: I've looked through a lot of executive coaching titles at only half the cover price of Goldsmith's volume, but within this ONE I get the essence of wisdom from a score of the best names in the business. This is a great investment to find out which authors you need to explore in more depth.
It's helped me identify the authors that are most consistent with the coaching strategies and styles I am developing. A GREAT place for a beginner to study first!
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