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The popularity of executive coaching has taken many by surprise. Clearly it has fulfilled some important need. Just as the rich and powerful once needed a personal therapist both as a trophy and as an adviser, so managers now appear to have the need for an executive coach and their very expensive conversation.
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Furnham, A. (2004). Does coaching work?. In: Management and Myths. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781403990037_15
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