Last night I went to see Stephen Spielberg’s recently released American historical drama film, “Lincoln”. In case you haven’t seen it yet, this film starring Daniel Day-Lewis as Abraham Lincoln and Sally Field as Mary Todd Lincoln, is based in part, on Doris Goodwin’s biography of Abraham Lincoln, Team of Rivals, and focuses on President Lincoln’s tumultuous final 4 months in office before his assassination. In a nation divided by war, Lincoln pursues a course of action designed to end the
Read more →One of my coaching colleagues has a very clever business card that says in big bold print: “I HAVE QUESTIONS, YOU HAVE ANSWERS.” But, most of us would ask, aren’t people who come for coaching the ones who are asking the questions? And aren’t coaches supposed to be the answer people? Yes and No. Yes, most people do come to coaching with questions about their lives. But coaches do not have the answers. Instead, coaches use provacative open-ended QUESTIONS that invite
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