Coaching for Leadership: How the World's Greatest Coaches Help Leaders Learn [Hardcover]

Marshall Goldsmith (Editor), Laurence Lyons (Editor), Alyssa Freas (Editor), Robert Witherspoon (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: May 15, 2000 | ISBN-10: 0787955175 | ISBN-13: 978-0787955175 | Edition: 1st

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 brings together the world's best executive coaches to give the reader an understanding of:

How coaching works

Why coacking works

How leaders can make the best use of the coaching process

"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

Editorial Reviews

Review

"It's the single best collection of writings and writers on executive coaching." —Warren Bennis, distinguished professor of business administration, University of Southern California; coauthor, Organizing Genius and Co-Leaders

"This is a book by experienced coaches. . . . As useful to the experienced coach as it is to the novice, it's a book worth owning!" —William Bridges, author, Managing Transitions and Creating You & Co

"Coaching for Leadership is an exceptional work on a vital subject in today's business environment that you don't want to miss." —Elmer B. Harris, president and CEO, Alabama Power Company

"This new book is a must-read for CEOs and top human resources and executive development managers. It tells how to use the hottest new techniques in preparing executives for today's business challenges." —D. Quinn Mills, professor of business administration, Harvard Business School, author, The New Competitors, Rebirth of the Corporation, and The GEM Principle.

"A thorough exploration of coaching and mentoring." (Ambassador, December 2000)

"When I opened the book I wanted to ring my colleagues and tell them, buy it! All the coaching models and theories you will ever need are here under one cover. There is a refreshing humour and reality throughout, and a peppering of some splendid "Aha" moments that encourage you to read on! Truly the best, most inspirational, enjoyable, motivational, realistic book I have read in a long time." (Training, October 2000)

"A thorough exploration of coaching and mentoring." (Ambassador, December 2000)

From the Author

Coaching for Leadership

Welcome to Coaching for Leadership!

In Coaching for Leadership, my co-editors and I have brought together the coaching philosophies and methods of the world’s top leading coaching professionals for the simple purpose of helping leaders achieve positive, measurable change for themselves, their people and their teams.

Nearly twenty years ago, I co-founded Keilty, Goldsmith & Company. Our leadership development, coaching, and feedback processes have impacted over one million people in leading organizations around the world. During this time, I’ve seen coaching dramatically increase in popularity and emerge as a field in which leaders around the world are partaking both as coaches and as those being coached. But, the understanding of what executive coaching is and how it can increase leaders’ effectiveness has not grown as fast as the application of this process.

In putting together Coaching for Leadership, our aim is 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.

--Marshall Goldsmith

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 392 pages
• Publisher: Pfeiffer; 1st edition (May 15, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0787955175
• ISBN-13: 978-0787955175
• Product Dimensions: 9.6 x 7.3 x 1.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.3 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #124,515 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #76 in Books > Business & Investing > Industries & Professions > Consulting

More About the Author

Dr. Marshall Goldsmith is a world authority in helping successful leaders get even better - by achieving positive, lasting change in behavior: for themselves, their people and their teams.

Every two years there is a global survey to determine the world's top 50 business thinkers. In 2009 Marshall's friend the late CK Prahalad was ranked #1 and Marshall was ranked #14. To participate in the 2011 Thinkers 50, visit http://www.thinkers50.com/vote.

MOJO was released in February 2010. It is a New York Times and Wall Street Journal top ten best-seller - and the Shanghai Daily #1 business book in China. It is already scheduled to be translated into 14 languages.

In November 2009 Dr. Goldsmith was recognized as one of the fifteen most influential business thinkers in the world in the bi-annual study sponsored by The (London) Times and Forbes. The American Management Association named Marshall as one of 50 great thinkers and leaders who have influenced the field of management over the past 80 years. He is one of only two educators who have won the Institute of Management Studies Lifetime Achievement Award. Major business press acknowledgments include: BusinessWeek - most influential practitioners in the history leadership development, Wall Street Journal - top ten executive educators, Forbes - five most-respected executive coaches, Leadership Excellence - top five thinkers on leadership, Economic Times (India) - top CEO coaches of America, Economist (UK) - most credible executive advisors in the new era of business and Fast Company - America's preeminent executive coach.

Dr. Goldsmith's Ph.D. is from UCLA. He teaches executive education at Dartmouth's Tuck School and frequently speaks at leading business schools. He is a Fellow of the National Academy of Human Resources (America's top HR honor) and his work has been recognized by almost every professional organization in his field. In 2006 Alliant International University honored Marshall by naming their schools of business and organizational studies - the Marshall Goldsmith School of Management.

Marshall is one of a select few advisors who have been asked to work with over 120 major CEOs and their management teams. He served on the Board of the Peter Drucker Foundation for ten years. He has been a volunteer teacher for US Army Generals, Navy Admirals, Girl Scout executives, International and American Red Cross leaders - where he was a National Volunteer of the Year.

Marshall is the million-selling author of many books including: What Got You Here Won't Get You There - a New York Times best-seller, Wall Street Journal #1 business book, winner of the Harold Longman Award for Business Book of the Year and top ten best-seller in seven major countries; Succession: Are You Ready? - a WSJ best-seller; The Leader of the Future -a BusinessWeek best-seller, The Organization of the Future 2 - Choice Award (top academic business books) 2009; and Coaching for Leadership. Over three hundred of his articles, interviews, columns and videos are available for viewing and sharing online (for no charge) at www.MarshallGoldsmithLibrary.com. Visitors to this site have come from 195 countries and have viewed, read, listened to, downloaded or shared resources over 4.4 million times. He has regular blogs at www.HBR.org, www.BusinessWeek.com and www.HuffingtonPost.com.

Customer Reviews

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21 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A "must have" for all coaches., September 7, 2000

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Cheryl Smith (Vancouver, BC Canada) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Coaching for Leadership: How the World's Greatest Coaches Help Leaders Learn (Hardcover)

This book is a "must have" in the library of all coaches. It reflects the best of the best in leadership coaching today. You can pick it up anywhere and find useful, useable strategies to put to work with your clients right away. Coaching for Leadership is not so much a step-by-step "how to coach" book, more of a `war stories from the trenches." This approach makes the book very readable, practical and indispensable. For either internal or external coaches, there are great coaching examples from change management to career development or coaching for staff development. As an external coach, I found the chapter on Starting Smart especially useful, particularly the author's pointers on contracting. And the chapter on coaching others to accept feedback was as helpful to me personally as it was my clients. This is a book that will quickly become dog -eared, highlighted with protruding colored `stickies' as you mark your favorite paragraphs. Or at least my has.

20 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Covers all aspects of coaching leaders, including ethics, October 12, 2000

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E. A. Lovitt "starmoth" (Gladwin, MI USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Coaching for Leadership: How the World's Greatest Coaches Help Leaders Learn (Hardcover)

While attending Linkage's Knowledge Management Conference,I heard Marshall Goldsmith speak about some of the executives he has coached, and was intrigued by his money-back guarantee: if the coworkers of the executive being coached aren't satisfied with results, then Marshall doesn't get paid!

How many consultants can make that offer?

At any rate, Goldsmith has edited (and contributed chapters) to "Coaching for Leadership" along with Laurence Lyons and Alyssa Freas. Coaching high-impact, ambitious, hard-driving executives is not quite the same process as coaching under-performing employees, so this book probably has a smaller audience than say, "Coaching for Dummies". However, executive coaching is all about moving individuals into behaviors that sustain business, and there is lots of useful information for the coaches of non-leaders. There is also a very interesting (and very short) chapter on, "Coaching from Below" by Deepak (Dick) Sethi. Most of us could probably use that information!

16 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Coaching for Leadership, June 9, 2000

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"sarahmizrachi" (San Diego, CA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Coaching for Leadership: How the World's Greatest Coaches Help Leaders Learn (Hardcover)

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.