amyrhoda's review against another edition
3.0
I read this book for the first week of the Professional Coaching course I'm taking. It was a good, quick read, but there's a lot of stuff in here that I've come across before in other reading: mindset, fast and slow thinking, active listening, and other stuff. I guess it would be a comprehensive introduction to a lot of these ideas for someone who hadn't encountered them before. There's also a virtuosic example of how to coach someone in a skill that you know nothing about right at the end of the book.
mattgroot1980's review against another edition
3.0
I have no doubt that this was a very important text in its time and it still will likely speak strongly to people coming at the topic of human development and engagement for the first time. However, having read fairly widely on these issues, I've seen what he's talking about said better in other places since this was published.
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