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Challenging Some Basic Assumptions About Psychology and Executive Coaching: Who Knows Best, Who Is the Client, and What Are the Goals of Executive Coaching?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 January 2015

Lewis R. Stern*
Affiliation:
Institute of Coaching
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E-mail: executivecoach@comcast.net, Address: Three Russell Square, 1505 Massachusetts Avenue, Lexington, MA 02420

Abstract

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Copyright
Copyright © Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology 2009 

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Footnotes

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President: Stern Consulting; Advisor: Institute of Coaching, McLean Hospital, Harvard Medical School; Co-Leader: The Executive Coaching Forum.

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