Coaching: Evoking Excellence in Others, 2nd Edition.

AuthorMarshall, Jeffrey
PositionA book by James Flaherty - Brief Article - Book Review

Coaching: Evoking Excellence in Others, 2nd Edition. By James Flaherty. Elsevier Butterworth Heinemann, 231 pages. $27.95.

There's certainly something indicative about a book with a chapter that begins, "What is a human being?" Coaching mostly eschews pragmatic advice to offer a swirl of ideas, observations and suggestions about human behavior and how it can be influenced. Indeed, author Flaherty, the founder of two coaching-related ventures, notes that his work draws on "a wide range of traditions," including 20th Century philosophy, cognitive science, spirituality and development theory.

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