The Elephant in the Boardroom

NOTES

Introduction

1. The 2013 Executive Coaching Survey, published by Stanford University and The Miles Group, provides valuable insight into the reasons that executives want and need coaching.

Chapter 3

1. As I describe in this part of the chapter, I often ask workshop attendees to look at conflict through the context of being engaged in competition. When asked if they now embrace it as competition, the answer I always get is a resounding “yes!”

Chapter 4

1. After the two popular fallacies of the sun rising and not taking things personally, the third most common fallacy is “I can be nonjudgmental.” The reality is that, at some level, we judge ...