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Book
Title Beyond Goals: Effective Strategies for Coaching and Mentoring
Editors Susan David, David Clutterbuck and David Megginson
Publisher Gower
ISBN 978 14094 1851 1
Usefulness *****
This volume, which includes contributions from Whitmore, Deci, Kram, Boyatzis and the joint editors, leads the reader through some seminal thinking on goals, and early work on goal theory, and clearly demonstrates the pervasiveness of goals in our cultures and businesses.
It is made clear that goals can have both a beneficial and a less than benign effect, and the view that goals are universally positive...