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It is easy to be skeptical — indeed, cynical — about executive coaches. The sacked, sour and screwed-up executive one day: the executive coach the next. But this is clearly more than a fad or fashion that disappears by the end of the fiscal year. It is a massive growth industry, even if supply seems to have exceeded demand.

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Furnham, A. (2011). Does coaching work?. In: Managing People in a Downturn. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230307209_20

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