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You have created a life, now let the child have it. Let him decide what he wants to do with the life you gave him

Thomas Gordon • Parent Effectiveness Training: The Proven Program for Raising Responsible Children

When the people you lead don’t believe in themselves, you can help them believe in themselves,

John C. Maxwell • The Complete 101 Collection: What Every Leader Needs to Know

But to become a great leader, one needs to assume the best about each person.

Joel Manby • Love Works: Seven Timeless Principles for Effective Leaders

Joe nodded. “Very much indeed.” “Watch out for the other guy. Watch out for his interests. Watch his back. Forget about fifty-fifty, son. Fifty-fifty’s a losing proposition. The only winning proposition is one hundred percent. Make your win about the other person, go after what he wants. Forget win-win—focus on the other person’s win. “Here it is,

Bob Burg, John David Mann • The Go-Giver

“Helping, fixing, and serving represent three different ways of seeing life. When you help, you see life as weak. When you fix, you see life as broken. When you serve, you see life as whole. Fixing and helping may be the work of the ego, and service the work of the soul.”

Frank Ostaseski • The Five Invitations: Discovering What Death Can Teach Us About Living Fully

let me talk about this therapist one more time. What if, instead of treating me like a customer, she had wrapped me up in love? What if she’d comforted me with the core beliefs of coaching, and created a partnership? What if she had said something like this: “I’m not here to fix you. You are whole and perfect just as you are. I’m here to be a guide

Michelle Rockwood • Joyful Selling: A Better Way to Yes for Heart-Centered Coaches

Now, two decades into my career, I practise, lecture, supervise and write about all of these things, but increasingly I reject everything that I learned. Instead, I practise the art of ‘being for another’, an idea that arose in conversation with my colleague Sophie de Vieuxpont. I’m a mentor, a friend in an asymmetrical friendship, and a sounding b... See more

Niklas Serning • I am a better therapist since I let go of therapeutic theory | Aeon Essays

Orientation to Coaching

Laura Whitworth • Co-Active Coaching

Eric realized he was investing in outcomes by making sure other people were always happy with him. This had prevented Eric from standing up to people who mistreated him, but it also prevented him from getting genuinely close with anyone and sharing things about himself they might not like. Eric decided to end his loneliness by opening