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Title: The Leadership Shadow: How to Recognize and Avoid Derailment, Hubris and Overdrive Authors Erik De Haan and Anthony Kasozi Publisher Kogan Page ISBN 978 07494 7049 4 Usefulness 5   What happens when leaders go into overdrive and act out the shadow side of...

Are we good?

By Lis Merrick   In the latest in a series of columns dedicated to mentoring, we look at how to support mentors throughout the mentoring lifecycle. This issue: how checking in keeps relationships healthy   Mentoring sessions with ‘busy’ mentees need tending...

Waking up the dead

Watch out, zombies are everywhere, says David Megginson, emeritus professor of HRD, Sheffield Hallam University. But how do you recognise them and how can you work to break the cycle with an ‘affected’ client? Zombies are all over the news – and not just on your...

Minos and Icarus

Hello, I am Roach the Coach and I am your guide through the Coaching Chronicles. There are 4,500 species of us cockroaches so we are well placed, across the globe, and across time, to tell you about coaching… The story of Icarus’ doomed flight has woven its way into...