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"Executive
coaches are not for the meek. They’re for people who
value unambiguous feedback. All coaches have one thing
in common, it’s that they are ruthlessly
results-oriented." FAST COMPANY
Magazine
"If ever stressed-out corporate America could use
a little couch-time, it's now. Trust in big companies
is at an all-time low. Baby-boomers have been burned;
Gen Xers aren't expecting the Corporation to take care
of them. Under the circumstances, employees are much
likelier to go outside and get independent advice to
help them be better managers" Karen
Cates, Assistant Professor of Organizational Behavior,
Northwestern's Kellogg Graduate School of
Management.
"Between
25 percent and 40 percent of Fortune 500 companies use
executive coaches"
Recent survey by The Hay Group, an
International Human
Resources consultancy
"I
never cease to be amazed at the power of the coaching
process to draw out the skills or talent that was
previously hidden within an individual, and which
invariably finds a way to solve a problem previously
thought unsolvable,"
John Russell, Managing Director, Harley-Davidson
Europe Ltd.
"Asked
for a conservative estimate of the monetary payoff
from the coaching they got, these managers described
an average return of more than $100,000, or about six
times what the coaching had cost their
companies."
Fortune, 2/19/01, "Executive
Coaching -- With Returns a CFO Could Love"
"Coaching is the
number two growth industry right behind IT
(Information Technology) jobs, and it's the number one
home-based profession."
Start-Ups Magazine

"What's
really driving the boom in coaching, is this: as we
move from 30 miles an hour to 70 to 120 to 180......as
we go from driving straight down the road to making
right turns and left turns to abandoning cars and
getting on motorcycles...the whole game changes, and a
lot of people are trying to keep up, learn how not
fall off." John Kotter, Professor of
Leadership, Harvard Business School.
"Across
corporate America, coaching sessions at many companies
have become as routine for executives as budget
forecasts and quota meetings."
INVESTORS BUSINESS DAILY
"...[A
coach is] part advisor, part sounding board, part
cheerleader, part manager and part strategist."
The Business Journal, April 10, 2000

"Coaches
are everywhere these days. Companies hire them to
shore up executives or, in some cases, to ship them
out. Division heads hire them as change agents.
Workers at all levels of the corporate ladder, fed up
with a lack of advice from inside the company, are
taking matters into their own hands and enlisting
coaches for guidance on how to improve their
performance, boost their profits, and make better
decisions about everything from personnel to
strategy." --Fortune,
May 21, 2000
"Inside
every successful business person is an even more
ambitious one trying to get out. He or she just needs
a little help." Someone
To Watch Over You, 10/9/00, Australian Financial
Review
"A
coach may be the guardian angel you need to rev up
your career" MONEY Magazine
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