Tales from the Top: 10 Crucial Questions from the World's #1 Executive Coach

Tales from the Top: 10 Crucial Questions from the World's #1 Executive Coach
by Graham Alexander

Tales from the Top: 10 Crucial Questions from the World's #1 Executive Coach
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Author: Graham Alexander
Edition: Hardcover
Format: Bargain Price
Published: 2005-10-11
ISBN: N/A
Number of pages: 240

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Book Review: Required reading for every growing leader!
Summary: 5 Stars

Graham Alexander is a professional leadership coach who allows us to be indirectly coached by him through a series of ten powerful and thought-provoking questions. Questions such as "Who are you and who do others say you are?" and "What can only you do?".
Each chapter is an opportunity for you to examine a part of yourself or your influence.

Each chapter includes Million Dollar Questions, Wakeup Calls, and Action Items sprinkled through the pages at strategic points. These are gathered together at the end in the form of an Executive Summary.

This book is a powerful tool to support you in taking yourself and your leadership to a higher level.

Summary of Tales from the Top: 10 Crucial Questions from the World's #1 Executive Coach

Top leaders are seeking answers. International executive coach, confidant to the captains of industry, and catalyst for change Graham Alexander's approach is to ask the right questions to help leaders find the right answers.

In Tales from the Top, Alexander demonstrates how honest answers to effective questions propel leaders to break down barriers preventing them from operating at their highest levels of capability. After receiving his coaching, leaders:

  • Typically report a time savings of 20%-40% and estimate the improvement in their businesses has reflected 10 to 100 times the cost of the teaching.
  • Feel less overwhelmed and more in control.
  • Become laser-sharp about priorities and more focused at work and at home.

Over the course of his 25-year coaching career, Alexander has identified the 10 most common issues top-level executives face, including: Purpose in Life, Self-Awareness, Focus, and Personal Effectiveness. Each chapter deals with one of these issues as well as examples and conclusions at which other CEOs arrived, Key Principles, a Leadership Observation, and a Million-Dollar Question.

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