Advancing Executive Coaching: Setting the Course for Successful Leadership Coaching
by Gina Hernez-Broome, Lisa A. Boyce
In Conclusion: A Paradox
I would not give a fig for the simplicity this side of complexity, but I would give my life for the simplicity on the other side of complexity.
—OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES
Leaders and coaches do share at least one common challenge. Both are faced with complexity that sometimes defies understanding. Yet for both, success is determined by finding a path through complexity to achieve an exciting and clarifying simplicity—not simplistic answers that ignore complexity but instead an honest and confident engagement of complex issues toward insight, hope, and action. This defines much of the challenge inherent in both leadership and coaching. In the most practical sense, simplicity is very much needed in coaching if the process is ...
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