by Angela Spaxman | Jun 3, 2019 | Book Reviews, Leadership
What are you doing or not doing that limits your positive influence on the people around you? How can you move a team, an organization or yourself more effectively towards the future you want? Scaling Leadership by Robert Anderson and William Adams is the newest book...
by Angela Spaxman | Dec 20, 2011 | Book Reviews, Living and Working in Hong Kong
If you’re considering or planning a move to a different country, this book is full of practical advice for dealing with all kinds of emotional issues you are likely to face at different stages of your journey, your new life abroad and your return home. Written...
by Angela Spaxman | Jul 5, 2009 | About Coaching, Book Reviews
My favorite guide to coaching from my coaching hero is finally in print! Thomas Leonard (1955-2003), an American inspirational leader in coaching, wrote this book as a series of emails that answered our questions, as eager new coaches, about how to handle all kinds of...
by Angela Spaxman | May 29, 2008 | Book Reviews, Leader as Coach, Leadership
I’ve been on a learning spurt in the past few months around the most effective ways to influence people, to lead, and to have my life proceed according to my highest desires. And what I’m learning is a way of operating that is much more effective than the...
by Angela Spaxman | Apr 21, 2008 | Book Reviews, Leadership, Women in Leadership
This was one of the ‘aha’s that came to me at the Conversations Among Masters conference in North Carolina last week. Anthony Smith, author of The Taboos of Leadership, explained that women make better leaders. An analysis of 45 leadership studies found...
by Angela Spaxman | Oct 19, 2007 | Book Reviews, Leadership
Leading Through Conflict – How Successful Leaders Transform Differences into OpportunitiesBy Mark Gerzon Mark Gerzon’s book serves as a very useful description of the core skills of coaching when applied by leaders. While Gerzon’s theme is global leadership, his...
