Abstract
As coaches, we have all failed with clients, or will fail one day, but we tend to keep our failures to ourselves. As one wit said, success is a public affair, failure is a private funeral. It is human nature to react defensively to failure: by shutting it out of our mind as quickly as possible; by consciously or unconsciously seeking to avoid putting ourselves into a similar, failure-prone situation ever again; or even reframing it so that we can say that we were not responsible. As Benjamin Franklin argued, “I did not fail the test! I just found 100 ways to get it wrong.”
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Carlock, R.S., Florent-Treacy, E. (2010). Failure in Family Business Coaching. In: The Coaching Kaleidoscope. INSEAD Business Press. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230281790_13
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