An “interactive” approach to coaching from one of today’s most forward-thinking leadership gurus

John Zenger established himself as a top-tier leadership expert with his groundbreaking books The Extraordinary Leader and The Inspiring Leader. Now, he teams up with executive coach Kathleen Stinnett to put you on the fast track to expertise in business coaching.

The Extraordinary Coach works as an immersion course in coaching, providing the skills you need to become a highly effective leader in no time flat.

As with his other books, Zenger researched thousands of assessments from the most effective coaches. Then he and Stinnett combined the research with the latest findings from the world of clinical psychology to map out the real success secrets of today’s best coaches.

This practical, multi-layered training guide provides the tools you need, including:

* Companion Video (on their website) showing “real” coaching in action

* Conversation Guide offering framework for any possible scenario

* Application Worksheets to help prepare yourself for upcoming coaching situations

* List of Questions to ask in their own coaching conversations

Building a firm foundation in the correlation between coaching effectiveness and employee engagement, you will quickly and effectively master the critical skill of coaching. The Extraordinary Coach will ensure you make a powerful contribution to the long-term success of your organization.

Millions of Americans have psychological issues or are affected by those of their family members, ranging from anxiety and bipolar disorder to mood and personality disorders. The growth of Big Pharma, combined with an increasing desire of managed care providers to find simple and "quick fixes," has resulted in an often myopic focus on biological causes of dysfunctional symptoms. There is plenty of evidence to indicate that this propensity to only prescribe pills is often deeply misguided, however.

Originally published in French (Dictionnaire International de la Psychanalyse) in 2002, this expanded three-volume set, edited by neuropsychiatrist and practicing psychoanalyst de Mijolla (founder & president, International Assn. for the History of Psychoanalysis), concentrates on Freudian psychoanalysis, with some emphasis on French thinkers and institutions. More than 450 international practitioners and academics contribute 1,569 signed entries that cover country-by-country histories (for those of us with a burning interest in the development of Freudianism in Peru), psychoanalytic concepts and notions, biographies, and major works. Handy features include a thematic topical outline, a chronology from 1815 to 2004, a bibliography of Freud's works, and a set of translations of technical terms into five European languages. The index is comprehensive, and each article is accompanied by See Also references, a bibliography, and suggestions for further reading. Bottom Line The articles are straightforward and reasonably comprehensible, but there is no material critical of psychoanalysis. There is also no mention of the fact that there has been little qualitative support for Freud's theories and that, indeed, the psychiatric and psychological communities have largely repudiated the strict psychoanalytic approach. University librarians who serve faculty members enamored of Lacanian postmodernism can make them very happy with this work. Otherwise, more general encyclopedias, such as the New Dictionary of the History of Ideas (Scribner, 2004) and the Encyclopedia of Psychology (Oxford Univ., 2000), offer a more accurate, if not as extensive, picture of psychoanalysis in the modern world. [This work is also available as an e-book through the Gale Virtual Reference Library.-Ed.]-Mary Ann Hughes, Neill P.L., Pullman, WA Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.

This concise and accessible introduction to European economic history focusses on the interplay between the development of institutions and the generation and diffusion of knowledge-based technologies. The author challenges the view that European economic history before the Industrial Revolution was constrained by population growth outstripping available resources. He argues instead that the limiting factor was the knowledge needed for technological progress but also that Europe was unique in developing a scientific culture and institutions which were the basis for the unprecedented technological progress and economic growth of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Simple explanatory concepts are used to explain growth and stagnation as well as the convergence of income over time whilst text boxes, figures, an extensive glossary and online exercises enable students to develop a comprehensive understanding of the subject. This is the only textbook students will need to understand Europe's unique economic development and its global context.