Do you need an executive coach?
Posted by Alchemy Exchange on February 14, 2009
· Around 50% of the chief executives interviewed [in a survey of over 150 current and former chief executives from around the world] said they found the job “intensely lonely” and did not know who to turn to for advice. A common response was, “I can’t talk to the chairman because in the end he’s the one who is going to fire me. I can’t talk to my finance director because ultimately I’m going to fire him, and I can’t tell my wife because I never see her and when I do, that’s the last thing she’ll want to talk about.”
· “It is extraordinary to think you can be excellent at something without a coach. The notion that Roger Federer would not have several coaches is ridiculous. One of the best things that happened to me was to get a coach,” says Richard Baker, a former boss of Alliance Boots, a pharmacy.
As someone who has held a number of C-level posts, the above comments (which were reported in The Economist newspaper) resonated with me very strongly.
I’ve discovered coaching; have you?
