Introduction

Take a course in psychology, rather than technology.

—Tom Peters (Weinstein, 1999, p. J2)

Coaching activities, training, and literature have flourished since publication of the first edition of this book, and it appears that executive coaching is here to stay. There are now many books in print that describe coaching and how to do it. There has been an explosion of coach-training programs as well as organizations willing to coach people in a wide variety of areas including business coaching, life coaching, and health coaching. Coaching psychology seems to have emerged as a legitimate new subspecialty of psychology in Great Britain and Australia. There is now a substantial body of literature on executive coaching in academia (Kampa-Kokesch ...

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