Customer Reviews

Coaching with the Brain in Mind: Foundations for Practice

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This book provides an amazingly comprehensive overview of coaching and leadership theory and practice. It is useful not only to the experienced practitioner but provides a textbook like scope that introduces someone to the psychology and neuropsychology of coaching and leadership that has evolved over the last 50 years and more. However, unlike most books of this breadth, it is very readable, extremely well organized and researched. It is a wonderful reference and up to date in terms of its overview of trends and research.

David Giber, PhD

While the content is pretty important, getting to the meat is an ardurous task. Kind of like trying to get the crab meat out of Maryland crab...more work than the actual amount of crab meat you get, from my perspective. This book came highly rated to me by several other coaches, but I found the reading of it so draining with the authors circling around this concept or that and then providing a rather weak summary of how you could apply these ideas in a real coaching context. A good editor could have given this book a much better structure and brought the conclusions forth in a more usable way. On the whole, rather disappointing. If you are the kind of person who enjoys the Maryland crab experience, perhaps you will get more out of this book than I did.

While I have not read this book all the way through, I have seen enough of it to be able to say it is well laid out. The writing is clear, concise, and informative. Example clients give it the human touch. To be honest the reason I wanted to write this review is to point out a mistake made by the other reviewer. That reviewer is referring to another book "The Brain that Changes Itself" by Norman Doidge, MD. It is a book about neuroplasticity with each chapter describing a different case study or treatment approach. That book has a 4 1/2 star average customer rating from a total of 224 reviews. 173 of which are 5 stars.

This book documents and justifies things I had persumed to be true without the EBR to back it up. Very helpful!

Doidge writes very well, explaining a raft of neuroplasticity issues and illustrating principles with life-stories, which he tells wonderfully. He is the Malcolm Gladwell of his field, and the book is a page-turner -- educational and entertaining at the same time.