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Practical Coach: Management Skills for Everyday Life, The
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Practical Coach: Management Skills for Everyday Life, The

by Paula J. Caproni - Ph.D.
November 2000
Beginner
330 pages
13h 18m
English
Pearson
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Managerial Growth and Development

Undoubtedly, developing self-awareness is essential to our long-term work effectiveness, career development, and personal well-being. Many of us are drawn to go beyond who we currently are toward who we are capable of becoming. Yet organizational psychologist Wilfred Drath explains that personal growth can be disconcerting as well as exhilarating because “to grow personally, [we] must give up a deeply personal meaning, a fundamental way of understanding the self and relating the self to the world,” that gives our lives coherence and predictability.

You've got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was.

Irish Proverb

Growth does not simply mean moving in logical, concrete steps toward a particular ...

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