Marshall Goldsmith - Coaching for Leadership

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Praise for Coaching for Leadership

Coaching for Leadership explores powerful new ways to motivate your entire organization. Individuals at every level of the company will benefit from the concepts in this book.

Ken Blanchard, coauthor of The One Minute Manager and Leading at a Higher Level

This is a book by experienced coaches... As useful to the experienced coach as it is to the novice, its 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 todays business environment that you dont want to miss.

Elmer B. Harris, president and CEO, Alabama Power Company

This book is the single best collection of first-rate articles on executive coaching. It covers every base from leading change to strategy and should be on the bookshelf of every student and practitioner of leadership and organizational development.

Warren Bennis, University Professor and Distinguished Professor of Business, University of Southern California, and author, On Becoming a Leader, and coauthor, Geeks and Geezers

What a resource! In Coaching for Leadership , the worlds best coaches come together to present an advanced tutorial on the art of coaching. Anyone interested in becoming an executive coach, either as an individual practice or within his or her organization, must immediately buy and read this essential hands-on guide

Sally Helgesen, author, The Female Vision: Womens Real Power at Work, The Female Advantage, and The Web of Inclusion

This exceptional book is a must read for individuals at all levels of organization. Coaches, HR managers, and executives hoping to become coaches will benefit greatly from the concepts, practices, and techniques brought to light in Coaching for Leadership.

Vijay Govindarajan, professor at Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth and best-selling author of The Other Side of Innovation: Solving the Execution Challenge

This book is very important and valuable for executives who are reaching retirement and moving into another important area of contribution: coaching others to become effective executives. It is no less significant for corporate HR executives who are increasingly called upon to manage coaching interventions on behalf of their companies leaders.

D. Quinn Mills, professor, Harvard Business School

Coaching is a critical business skill in todays fast-changing world. Coaching for Leadership pulls together insightful contributions from several renowned coaches. This book is a must read for leaders and future leaders.

Dr. Homa Bahrami, senior lecturer, Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Coaching for leadership: writings on leadership from the worlds greatest coaches / editors, Marshall Goldsmith, Laurence Lyons, Sarah McArthur. 3rd ed.

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-0-470-94774-6 (hardback)

1. ExecutivesTraining of. 2. LeadershipStudy and teaching. 3. Mentoring in business. 4. Business consultants. I. Goldsmith, Marshall. II. Lyons, Laurence. III. McArthur, Sarah.

HD30.4.C63 2012

658.407124dc23 2011052828

Acquiring Editor: Matthew Davis

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FOREWORD

By Dave Ulrich

A Brief Trek Toward the Next Agenda for Coaching

Like many professions, business coaching began in bits and drabs with individuals here and there being and using coaches. In the last twenty years, as use of business coaches has mushroomed, the range of coaching expectations and services has exploded, for both the good and the bad. I believe that most change efforts like coaching go through the flow depicted by a diamond (). At the top, the early adopters, innovators, and experimenters (like Marshall Goldsmith and other authors in this volume) begin with a zealots passion and great anticipation. As the field evolves, the widest part of the diamond depicts a host of coaching alternatives ranging from users of coaching who want to join the bandwagon but are not committed to change, to coaches who are passing from one job to another without a serious attempt at coaching rigor, to those want to increase the professionalization of the coaching movement. But, as the field evolves, coaching moves to the bottom part of the diamond, where rigor and clarity begin to emerge around three issues: