Coaching for Leadership
How the World's Greatest
Coaches Help Leaders Learn
Marshall Goldsmith, Laurence
Lyons, Alyssa Freas
ISBN: 0-7879-5517-5
Hardcover Publication Date: Jun 2000 432 pages
Put coaching into practice in
your organization!
Executive coaching is
dramatically increasing in popularity. Leaders around the world are both using coached and
becoming coaches. But, the understanding of what executive coaching is and how it can
increases leaders' effectiveness has not grown as fast as the application of this process.
Coaching for Leadership: How the World's Greatest Coaches Help Leaders Lear brings
together the best executive coaches to give the reader an understanding of how coaching
works, why it works, and how leaders can make the best use of the coaching process.
'Finally, coaching put into
perspective-the art, the science, the impact-all expertly explained in one place! Coaching
for Leadership is a must read for anyone interested in maximizing the success of
themselves and their organization.'
--Richard Amabile, senior director, executive development, Enron Corporation
'Coaching has become one of
the key competencies of successful leaders who recognize their duty to develop others.
This book is an indispensable item in the executive library as it combines leading edge
thought, clarity and, most important of all, real practicality.'
--David Bannister, director, international human resource development, KPMG UK
'Coaching for Leadership
provides you with the opportunity to access the best of the best. Their collective
insights and advice represents a benchmark framework for those who coach or are
responsible for developing the skills of coaches.'
--Charles J. Corace, director, management education & development, Johnson &
Johnson
The world's greatest coaches
come together to provide a comprehensive look at how modern coaching is taking over as the
management style of choice.