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

by Marshall Goldsmith (Editor), Laurence Lyons (Editor), Alyssa Freas (Editor), Robert Witherspoon (Author) "framework for dialogue. Coaching provides a climate within which vital, though seemingly intransigent, issues may be brought to the surface, confronted, and then dealt with..." (more)
Key Phrases: decision velocity, coaching continuum, executive coaching process, New York, Situational Leadership, Stanley International (more...)

Editorial Reviews

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"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

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

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

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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.com Sales Rank: #340,195 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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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

By	Cheryl Smith (Vancouver, BC Canada) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

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

By	E. A. Lovitt "starmoth" (Gladwin, MI USA) - See all my reviews (TOP 50 REVIEWER)    (REAL NAME)

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

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

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.