YOUR COACH (IN A BOOK) MASTERING THE TRICKIEST LEADERSHIP, BUSINESS, AND CAREER CHALLENGES YOU WILL EVER FACE by Robert Hargrove and Michel Renaud. Jossey-Bass, 2004
    PREFACE --- Our leadership manifesto --- better leaders, better world! (pxi-xviii)

    INTRODUCTION --- Democratizing coaching (p1-7)

      1) What's the opportunity in coaching for you? (p8-22)

    PART 1) YOUR EXTRAORDINARY BUSINESS CHALLENGE (p23-38)

      2) Declare an impossible future --- That captures people's imagination (p39-45)

      3) Face reality --- Identify what's missing that, if provided, will produce a breakthrough (p46-52)

      4) Create a "Source Document" --- vision, major milestones, key initiatives, guiding principles, and methodologies (p53-61)

      5) Get everyone to formulate a significant business challenge --- create "Line of Sight" to strategic goals (p62-67)

      6) Desperate to "Break Out" of the no-growth morass? --- Blow up your business model versus tinker at the margins (p69-76)

      7) Looking to get a chunk of capital at your next board meeting? --- The best presentation is the one you never make (p77-83)

      8) Create customers who brag about you --- shift from a "me" point of view to a "you" point of view (p84-90)

    PART 2) YOUR EXTRAORDINARY LEADERSHIP CHALLENGE (p91-166)

      9) Be an extraordinary leader --- Realize that your winning strategy has gotten you here but may not take you where you want to go (p107-113)

      10) Stand for something! --- Leadership arises in discovering yourself as the stand you take (p114-120)

      11) Get your grand design over the line --- Vision is not enough! Execute on your source document until it exists independent of you (p121-126)

      12) Become a master politician --- The art of politics for non-politicians (p127-136)

      13) How to lead with "Lateral leadership" when you are not in charge --- Build coalitions that increase support and diminish opposition situation (p137-143)

      14) Take an "A" player in every job (p144-150)

      15) Stop being a victim of your calendar (p151-158)

      16) Get ready for big meetings like a championship game (p159-166)

    PART 3) YOUR EXTRAORDINARY CAREER CHALLENGE (p167-230)

      17) Do you have a burning ambition? (p177-182)

      18) Network to match your ambition (p183-189)

      19) Sourcing a powerful relationship with your boss (p190-196)

      20) Create an extraordinary career in a turbulent world (p197-204)

      21) Dealing with derailers (p205-210)

      22) There's a conversation out there about you that's a career wrecker (p211-217)

      23) Beat burnout (p218-224)

      24) (p224-230)

    NOTES (p231-234)

    GLOSSARY OF CONCEPTS (p235-240

    ACKNOWLEDGMENTS (p241-242)

    ABOUT THE AUTHORS (p243-244)

    INDEX (p245-254)

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