Coaching for Performance: The Principles and Practice of Coaching and Leadership FULLY REVISED 25TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION (People Skills for Professionals)

Coaches play a key role, by holding a vision of what is possible and by their commitment to transformative experience. Coachees still choose the topic, the action, and the results they want. But by taking a stand for the greatest possible impact from even the smallest action, coaches encourage—and ultimately evoke—transformation.

As we immersed ourselves in the wisdom literature, so the five mantras emerged, five themes that seemed to capture all these elements in a leadership framework. The mantra know yourselves includes a reference to self-awareness. The mantra transcend yourselves guides us to new ways of thinking that necessarily invoke humility, comfort with ambiguity