Leading From the Inside Out or Global Taiwan

Leading From the Inside Out: A Coaching Model

Author: Virginia E Bianco Mathis

Leading From the Inside Out: A Coaching Model presents a holistic view of coaching that provides leaders a framework for personal and professional growth. The authors' five-step approach is designed for leaders to develop themselves, their teams, their organizations, and their communities. Their model is composed within a framework of recent literature and research, presented as a practical, straightforward process. The book defines what coaching is and illustrates the key steps in the coaching process, including establishing the coaching relationship, collecting and analyzing data, and evaluating performance. The authors incorporate stories and cases from their clients so leaders can learn from their experiences, and include worksheets, job aids, scorecards, and other hands-on development tools.

"Finally, a comprehensive, rigorous book explains what coaching is and how it can transform organizations. Filled with interesting case scenarios and worksheets, the book is written clearly and convincingly. Here is a specific roadmap for any leader who wants renewal and improvement in both personal and organizational lives. Coaching Leadership is a way of being, and, increasingly, the way of being for the most successful leaders."

--Eric B. Dent, Ph.D., University of Maryland University College, Executive Director, Doctoral Programs

"Learn! Explore! Discover! Challenge! If you dare engage in authentic dialogues, this book is your next step on your leadership journey. Based on a practical, action-oriented coaching model, the authors weave leadership and coaching competencies into a transformational fabric that is an essential habit for today'sleaders."

--Teri-E Belf, M.A., C.A.G.S., M.C.C., Success Unlimited Network, Founder and Executive Director  

"Leading From the Inside Out: A Coaching Model is a superb book -- lucid, focused, and above all -- highly practical. As a senior executive and also as one who coaches CEO's, I find the concepts and skills contained in the text to be brilliant."

--Robert E. Staub II, Staub Leadership Consultants, Chairman

"Starting with a focus on the individual leader and then progressing to leading the team and then the organization, the authors provide a thoughtful, seasoned and straightforward approach that includes both developing the leadership mindset and demonstrating the behaviors that will go a long way in winning over the hearts and minds of today's employees"

--Steven J. Steckler, Marriott International, Inc., Vice President, Executive Development & Organizational Capability

"Leading From the Inside Out: A Coaching Model is a jam-packed how-to bible of workable, proven tips, tools and techniques that have helped some of the world's great leaders win. It should occupy a prominent place in every leader and would-be leader's workspace and mind."

--Jim Shaffer, Jim Shaffer Group, Leader

Booknews

A resource for leaders and for those who work with leaders, this book presents a five-step model that leaders can apply for developing themselves and their teams, organizations, and communities. The competency-based model provides leaders with a framework for personal and professional growth. Key steps in the coaching process, such as establishing the coaching relationship, collecting and analyzing data, and evaluating performance, are illustrated using real-life case stories. Many worksheets, job aids, score cards, and other tools are included. Bianco-Mathis teaches in the School of Business at Marymount University. This work lacks a subject index. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Table of Contents:

Preface

Acknowledgments

1. Leading From the Inside Out: Introduction

2. The Leader Within

3. The Leader and the Team

4. From Traditional to Coaching Organization

5. Beyond Organizational Walls

References

About the Authors

Interesting textbook: Sugars That Heal or Comic Strip Conversations

Global Taiwan: Building Competitive Strengths in a New International Economy

Author: Suzanne Berger

This observant, witty book reveals the conventions that govern Muslim society- and charts the unwitting mistakes Westerners can make when meeting Muslims.

"This book is for Christians venturing among Muslims," explains Christine Mallouhi. "It assumes that Christians will want to live honorably among Muslims for Christ's sake, and explores what that means…I am the Western wife of an Arab from a conservative Muslim family. My stories are from the shadow side of Muslim culture, which is invisible to most Westerners."
Her themes include:

· Status · The place of women · The veil · Stereotypes · Segregation and restrictions · Family life · Hospitality and witness