76. Get Some Coaching Yourself

A teacher affects eternity. He can never tell where his influence stops.

—Henry B. Adams, American historian

Great coaches always cite the coaches they themselves learned from. In today’s environment, most top business leaders have coaches—personal success coaches or life coaches who take them to higher levels of success than they ever could have attained on their own.

The object of the coaching process is to allow the leader to discover his or her hidden strengths and to bring this person to the forefront in the daily life of the business. Every great actor, dancer, and athlete credits most of their career progress to a coach who gave them support and teaching along the way. In the past, our society celebrated ...

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