Executive Coaching with Backbone and Heart
A Systems Approach to Engaging Leaders with Their Challenges

This book was highly recommended in coaching training that I received this summer. I can see why. First of all, the two basic ideas of backbone and heart. Backbone is the idea of not caving on contracted goals and action plans. Heart is entering deeply into your client's goals, challenges, and perso......more

I thought this was a pretty useful book overall. I really liked some of the concepts about executive coaching that Mary speaks about. One of the key strategies for coaching executive that I learned from this was a triple approach of ensuring that you can make sure that you're working with the execut......more

This was an excellent book explaining many systems concepts that I was unfamiliar with. Its definitely a new member in my top five book list.......more

Recommended to me by an executive leader, I thought this book would be informative for how executives can coach their leaders. Instead, except for a single chapter (11) at the very end, it’s how coaches of executives can guide them into more effective developers of their leaders and teams. “Executive......more

Extremely helpful book I set out on a course to work as an executive coach and found the Three key factor methodology to be an incredible useful model rightfully emphasizing the need to start out with the required business result to get the buy-in and way to filter any possible intervention against t......more