Successful Technology Consulting: The Boomer Advantage

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Create an organization of masterful coaches! Based on Robert Hargrove's acclaimed five-step coaching model--field-tested by thousands of leaders throughout the world--these tools will help you create a comprehensive training program for your organization that will fundamentally shift thinking and attitudes in the service of extraordinary results.

Use this dynamic model to teach the coaches (and potential coaches) in your organization to:

Build a personal coaching mission and teachable point of view
Invest in relationships
Plan stretch goals collaboratively
Encourage action with small do-able projects
Create feedback that stretches, corrects, and builds self-esteem

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A Field Guide to Great Coaching.......2001-05-20

Bob has done a masterful job of pulling together a wide variety of coaching situations to illustrate the coaching models from his previous book. This is a book for the serious coach seeking how-to applications. The emphasis on creativity is a nice enhancement.

* Mark Kelly, coauthor of MASTERING TEAM LEADERSHIP: 7 ESSENTIAL COACHING SKILLS

Diverse coaching styles.......2000-01-25

When you are interviewed for a book like this (I am interviewed as a chapter in this book) you are always worried about the context and company of your interview. Robert Hargrove is great at synthesis and gathering diverse methods around a subject.

I am pleased to be in its company and that of the other masterful coaches he brings you.

He puts many practical ideas into one book. He does this from a diverse thinking approach.

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The Masterful Coaching Fieldbook: Grow Your Business, Multiply Your Profits, Win the Talent War! (Essential Knowledge Resource)
Robert Hargrove
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ASIN: 078798602X

Book Description

Robert Hargrove shares his secrets as a masterful coach with leaders of all levels: Coaching is about realizing an impossible dream and winning at the great game of business, not just about changing attitudes and behaviors.

This book describes:

How to find the best talent on earth
How to create an impossible future and WIN in your business
How to create a winning game plan
How business can be the ultimate self-development and growth experience

Masterful Coaching Delux Set (book/fieldbook/facilitator guide)

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Masterful Coaching Feedback Tool:

Masterful Coaching Delux Set (book/fieldbook/facilitator guide)
Robert Hargrove
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ASIN: 0787956287

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A ready-made training program that works!

Based on Robert Hargrove's acclaimed five-step coaching model--field-tested by thousands of leaders world-wide--these tools will help you create a comprehensive training program for your organization that will fundamentally shift thinking and attitudes in the service of extraordinary results. The modular program is adaptable to the needs of any organization and its flexible workshop design can be conducted in as little as one-half day or extended over several days.

The Deluxe Trainer's Set contains everything you need to conduct a complete Masterful Coaching training program:

The Masterful Coaching book

The Masterful Coaching Fieldbook

The Masterful Coaching Feedback Tool, which includes one Facilitator's Guide complete with scoring software and PowerPoint slides on CD-ROM, an instructional video, one Participant's Workbook with a Self-Assessment Instrument, and one Observer Assessment Instrument

**Please remember you will need one Participant's Workbook with a Self Assessment Instrument and five Observer Assessment Instruments per program participant.

Help the leaders in your organization become the exceptional coaches they were meant to be and then watch your business grow!

Customer Reviews:

Masterful Coaching Feedback Tool:.......2007-01-10

This book has helped me to coach myself in a new perspective. It's a quick read with helpful hints. It's been great.

Masterful Coaching: Extraordinary Results by Impacting People and the Way They Think and Work Together SET w/Fieldbook

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Essential For Your Library!
Coaching + Systems Thinking = Transformation!
Every coach should read this book!
Fantastic revision of an already great book!
New Paradigm For Werner Erhard's Est?

Masterful Coaching: Extraordinary Results by Impacting People and the Way They Think and Work Together SET w/Fieldbook
Robert Hargrove
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ASIN: 0787955655

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In this thoroughly updated edition of his classic book, Hargrove introduces you to Masterful Coaching, the method, Hargrove draws on his in-depth experience of coaching leaders at all levels gained since writing the first edition. The book provides guiding ideas, tools, and methods that will empower you on your own journey to Masterful Coaching. You will learn to empower people to transform who they are as leaders and at the same time their ability to produce results that were previously considered impossible by applying triple loop learning. This is about ripping the blinders off so that people see that who they are, the goals they set, and the plans they make, and actions they take are often part of historical winning strategies that are the source of their past success but that limit them from achieving what's possible or playing a much bigger game.

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Essential For Your Library!.......2007-01-10

For anyone who is a coach, considering becoming a coach, or curious about coaching, this book is a MUST read! Hargroove clearly distinguishes between a coach and a "Masterful Coach" - one that gets results. It's a different paradigm and different way of being with coaching clients that gets results. He shows that coaching is about serving others from the perspective that they are whole and complete; it's not about fixing or helping them.

Coaching + Systems Thinking = Transformation!.......2005-12-15

The author integrates coaching with systems thinking and the learning organization popularized by Peter Senge's book "The Fifth Discipline". This revised edition shows the Hargrove's approach is still fresh and surprisingly unique, given all the recent books published on coaching.

One unique contribution is Hargrove's model of triple-loop learning. It is a model of reflection. The first loop is reflecting on the outcome of actions for incremental improvement. The second loop is reflecting on assumptions that led to the decisions about those actions. The third loop is self-reflection on the core identity of the decision maker. This acknowledges that who we are influences our assumptions about the world and thus our actions. This type of reflection has become the core of quality coaching.

Other particularly helpful sections are the chapters on stretch goals and breakthrough thinking. Pushing for breakthroughs, rather than incremental change, requires the use of stretch goals. Hargrove tells us how to coach through the process of setting stretch goals. He says you first must decide what would be a breakthrough, then dig inside for motivation by examining why it is important to achieve and what's in it for me? Finally, learning and acting differently is essential to reaching stretch goals.

Hargrove's combination of systems thinking and learning organization principles with coaching is a real winner. Other books might be more thorough on the "how to" of coaching but his theory and tools for transformational change are excellent and unique.

Every coach should read this book!.......2003-05-03

In the last ten years since I started coaching managers and leaders, I have read almost everything out there on the subject. This book stands out! The distinctions Hargrove makes about coaching provide clarity, while being very useable and transferable to others. He also writes in a very readable style, and balances profundity and humor to get his points across. Some points that I found especially useful were:

How to generate a powerful coaching relationship by clarifying what each person needs to bring to the party. I found this extremely helpful in re-igniting an ebbing coaching relationship.

Hargrove writes that a leader needs to "be the source" of their impossible future or what it is that they want to create. He shows how to coach someone to do this.

Thinking drives behavior. Hargrove provides clarity and examples on how to coach people in a more profound and deeper way than the usual tips and techniques that novice coaches give.

Hargrove also writes about getting feedback for the coaching client by doing interviews rather than using the typical 360 degree feedback forms. He says, "If more than one person calls you a horse, saddle up!"

I recommend this book to coaches, managers and leaders who want to up the level of their game.

Fantastic revision of an already great book!.......2003-05-03

I found Hargrove's book inspiring, insightful, and useful. I had read his first book - which was pivotal for me in creating my own coaching business-- and have found that he has taken this work to another level-a very compelling, as well as easy read. The two parts that I found most applicable to my own coaching clients were his step-by-step approach to coaching executives and the part on creating a "laboratory" that fosters collaboration within a group. I was able to bring these principles to a client who was wowed by what we were able to generate for her business. I would recommend this book to any coach, internal and external to a company, as well as to any leader who wants to create an "impossible future."

New Paradigm For Werner Erhard's Est?.......2003-04-23

Are people still being fooled by this same hash and rehash of Werner Erhard's "est," which is going by a new name "The Landmark Forum?" Hargrove's work looks to have been lifted wholesale from the Landmark Education so-called "Curiculum For Living." One wonders if he pays royalties for the use of Werner's, what he himself liked to refer to as, technology. Of course, no one told Werner there were lots of people around who would recognize his use of the word "technology" in this context as having come from one of his inspirations, L. Ron Hubbard and his "Philosophy for Living." And that is what characterizes this book, made all the more obvious by the long list of glowing testimonials, all using thoses tried-and-true estie buzz-words and phrases, the copy-cat, unimaginative litany: transformation, paradigm, empowerment, mastery, extraordinary results, tools for living, taking a stand, blah, blah, and blah. So here is my question. Is Mr. Hargrove shilling for Landmark Education or has he struck out on his own as so many of L. Ron's and now Werner's followers using the same formula and the same ideas? Rick Ross and Steven Hassan's websites have anough background on the "coaching" phenomenon to get you started, if you are curious about the dubious roots of this practice.

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Featuring up-to-the-minute discoveries and state-of-the-art space photography, this atlas illustrates all that science has revealed about constellations, the evolution of stars and galaxies, and the planets in the solar system. Acetate overlays highlight special points of interest to show even more about what we see in the night sky.

Atlas of the Night Sky (Smithsonian Institution)

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All the problems of other Wil Tirion atlases
First class
A nice general reference
Well-produced observing guide covers all the bases

Atlas of the Night Sky (Smithsonian Institution)
Storm Dunlop
Manufacturer: HarperCollins Publishers
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ASIN: 0060818913
Release Date: 2005-11-08

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All the problems of other Wil Tirion atlases.......2006-08-19

This is just another 6th magnitude atlas with all the limitations pertaining thereunto. Atlases of this scale are inadequate for finding Neptune or bright asteroids. It does not even reach the limit of the humble 6x30mm finder.

This atlas is typical of Wil Tirion's work. He draws charts as clear and attractive as any astrocartographer in the business, but until he shows better understanding of the needs of observers in the field, his works will never be readily usable.

For example, charts should always be arranged in descending order of right ascension, not ascending. That way, when north is at the top of the chart, navigation between charts is intuitive: you move to the right edge of the chart, and to continue, you continue right to the next page. To continue left, you should go to the previous page.

Even worse, when you look for an object just off the edge of one of the charts, the edge of the chart tells you nothing about where to go next. You have to fumble back to the index page to find out which chart to go to, which is time consuming and aggravating.

Terrestrial atlases place guides at the edges of their maps: "continues on 14." This is all the more important for astronomical observation, where the user is in the dark with nothing but a red flashlight and possibly holding an eyepiece or filter. To make the atlas practicable for field use, users must write the adjacent chart information on the charts themselves.

I would recommend skipping the 6th magnitude atlases altogether and buying Sky and Telescope's far superior 7.6 magnitude Pocket Sky Atlas instead.

First class.......2006-07-30

I did a detailed review of this text compared to "Norton's Star Atlas", 2004. This is here on Amazon, listed under Norton's text. In the interest of brevity I won't duplicate it here. Collins is far superior.

A nice general reference.......2006-07-11

I had high hopes for this book and it is very nicely illustrated with Tirion's famous maps however they are a little difficult to view under red light in the field. Still, they are detailed as are the nicely air-brushed lunar maps of Antonin Rukl. It would have more appeal being illustrated with deep sky images to show what an amateur might expect to photograph or even see at the eyepiece. I think Collins pocket Guide to the Stars & Planets does an overall better job for most beginners.

Still, it is a worthy production.

Well-produced observing guide covers all the bases.......2005-12-05

Sometimes, it looks as though there are as many astronomy observing guides as there are astronomy authors, and all of them seem very much of a feather. That's why it's surprising why the pieces come together so well for the Collins Atlas of the Night Sky, by Storm Dunlop, Wil Tirion, and Antonin Rukl. With so much of this ground having been covered before, it's pleasantly surprising that they can present it so much better than others.

Dunlop and Tirion have collaborated before, on the Firefly Deluxe Planisphere, a thick and large planisphere with rich detail and lots of information that puts David Levy's large planisphere to shame, for only twice the price. Rukl is known for his spectacular lunar atlas, recently reintroduced by Sky Publishing after a decade-long slumber in the out-of-print stacks. Make no mistake about it, these are some heavyweights in the uranography department.

Much of this information can be obtained elsewhere. The book contains four main sections: an unaided-eye star atlas, a constellation guide, a lunar atlas, and a solar system observing guide. The star atlas is essentially drawn from the Cambridge Star Atlas, down to the same object list format. Twenty maps cover the entire night sky to a scale of about 3 degrees per centimeter, with stars to magnitude 6.5. Hundreds of deep sky objects are plotted and listed. To my initial puzzlement, I didn't find a map key, as there is in the Cambridge. I found it, after some searching, at the other end of the book, just before the index.

The constellation guide, in turn, is quite reminiscent of the same section in Ian Ridpath and Tirion's Stars and Planets. The difference is that the Ridpath and Tirion book measures just 5-by-7, and each of the constellations is constrained to fit on a single page of that book. Here, each page is 9-by-12, and the constellation maps are given a generous scale of about 2 degrees per centimeter. Stars are plotted down to magnitude 7.5, so that the stellar density remains about the same in both the star atlas and the constellation guide maps. As in the Ridpath and Tirion book, each constellation is accompanied by an annotated list of several objects of particular interest within.

Rukl's lunar atlas is drawn--hand-drawn, in fact--substantially from his well-known standalone Moon book, although the descriptions of each sector are given here in a more narrative style, rather than the spare, feature-by-feature description given in his own book. This makes it more suitable as an introduction to the Moon, though perhaps less so as a reference source for the experienced lunatic. Also, the scale is smaller than in his own atlas, with the Moon being divided into just 16 sectors, in a 4-by-4 square. A pair of map keys is given on each page of the atlas, with north up in both keys, but mirror-reversed from each other, to suit those observing with and without star diagonals.

The last and slightest section covers solar system observing. A few pages on celestial mechanics are followed desultorily by specific advice on observing Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn, and somewhat scantier tips for Uranus and Neptune. Mercury and Venus are mentioned only for the sake of locating and detecting them, and Pluto seems not to be indicated at all. In some sense, I understand this, because you really need a large telescope to find and identify Pluto, particularly if you're a beginner and therefore the target for this book. Still, I think it would have been neat to spend four pages doing a strip map of stars in the neighborhood of Pluto down to the fifteenth magnitude, and to indicate its path for the next five years. After all, the section concludes with strip maps for the other main planets, as well as hourglass diagrams for representative latitudes. Of the four parts of this book, this one was the least satisfying.

I don't want to give the impression that this book is just a Greatest Hits album for these folks. The presentation has been updated, and new features added. Detail maps are geared more for the observer, rather than the armchair astronomer. Instead of giving us the slow creep of the celestial pole around Polaris, for example, we get the much more useful map of comparison stars for Mira, the pulsating variable in Cetus the Whale, or a map of the area around the galactic center.

Beginners will still need books like Terence Dickinson's Nightwatch, to help guide them toward the right purchases and, perhaps, to inspire a love for the night sky. Once they have the bug and the tools, though, it's hard to beat this new text as a self-contained guide to the night sky for the novice. Definitely recommended.

Night Sky Atlas: The Moon, Planets, Stars and Deep Sky Objects

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Very good first star atlas
You NEED this book.

Night Sky Atlas: The Moon, Planets, Stars and Deep Sky Objects
Robin Scagell
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ASIN: 1554070260

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A practical guide to binocular and small telescope observing.

Night Sky Atlas combines clear, accurate star maps with reliable and informative text. This is a highly practical atlas for beginning sky gazers using binoculars or a small telescope.

Sturdy binding makes it suitable for outdoor use. Cover flaps can be used as page-markers. The sewn binding allows the atlas to be opened flat. The star maps are drawn with black stars on a white background, allowing observers to pencil in their own observations. The high quality paper can withstand repeated use of an eraser.

The book begins by presenting the whole sky in a series of six maps, showing stars down to magnitude 5.5 -- all visible with binoculars or a small telescope. Opposite each map is a photo-realistic image that shows how the same portion of sky looks to the naked eye, allowing less-experienced observers to quickly find specific objects of interest.

The maps can be used for planning observations, navigating from one part of the sky to another and for a quick reference guide.

Other features include:

Forty large scale constellation charts
A full set of seasonal charts
Maps of the Moon and the planets
Deep sky maps identifying double stars, nebula and more.

A comprehensive index provides the location of information for all the night sky objects and features covered in the atlas.

The Night Sky Atlas is the ideal portable reference for backyard astronomers.

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Very good first star atlas.......2005-11-24

This is a very nice first atlas. It starts with a introduction section which covers the basics on celstial movement, observation techniques, and a few pages on the planets and the moon (including 4 pages of charts on the moon's four quaters and 4 accompanying pages of descriptions of each). It then has a very nice sky atlas section with the left page showing a black star on white background atlas and the right page showing the same view with white stars on black and all markings removed. This is helpful for getting a good idea of what you'll see, but the stars are artifically enlarged to show magnitude differences so its not exactly what you'll see in the sky.

My one gripe about this atlas comes in the third and final section on individual constelations. Its very well detailed and uses a page or so per constelation with textual descriptions of various objects, a few photographs, and a finder chart. However, the charts are printed with yellow stars on blue background, which washes out quite horribly when used outside under a red light. A white light only fares slightly better. I've found that this section is best used indoors. You can use many available software pacakages to print finder charts that are more exact to what you're looking for and will display better outdoors.

Overall, a very good buy.

You NEED this book........2005-09-16

I have many Astronomy books, but this is one of my favorites. The atlas is a classic star chart of an area of the sky, and on the next page is a photo of what you can expect to see. No more looking at your star chart, and then looking UP to try to find what you're looking for. It's so cool, and makes finding deep sky objects (or whatever your fancy) much easier. The back of the book also shows each constellation, and has a list of interesting objects in each with pictures that are stunning. Lots of great reference data also. Highly recommended and a GREAT PRICE too !!!!

Atlas of the Constellations: Discover the Secrets of the Night Sky

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Atlas of the Constellations: Discover the Secrets of the Night Sky
Giles Sparrow
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ASIN: 0517229196
Release Date: 2007-04-03

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For aspiring astronomers or anyone who has ever been captivated by the
beauty of the stars, ATLAS OF THE CONSTELLATIONS is a wonderfully accessible and comprehensive guide to the night sky.

This beautiful volume features accurate and clear star charts and diagrams of all
88 recognized constellations in the northern and southern hemispheres, including all twelve constellations of the zodiac. Beginning with a brief introduction to the stars, ATLAS OF THE CONSTELLATIONS features one full page on each constellation, detailing its naming and mythology, location in the sky, the best times of year to view it,
and its key stars and nebulae.

Included are constellations such as:
• Andromeda
• Cassiopeia
• Corona Borealis
• Draco
• Hydra
• Orion
• Pyxis
• Ursa Major
• Vulpecula

Comprehensive and informative, ATLAS OF THE CONSTELLATIONS will enable every reader to unlock the secrets of the night sky.

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ATLAS OF THE NIGHT SKY

Manufacturer: Crescent Books
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000HF75V0

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Atlas of the Night Sky
Storm (Editor) Dunlop
Manufacturer: Outlet
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Binding: Hardcover
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Atlas of the night sky

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Night Sky Atlas
Robin Scagell
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Robin Scagell
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